Constitution 115 — Supplementary, additional or excess grants

The Constitution of India, 1950

Statutory text

(1) The President
shall—
 (a) if the amount authorised by any law made in accordance with the
provisions of article 114 to be expended for a particular service for the
current financial year is found to be insufficient for the purposes of that
year or when a need has arisen during the current financial year for
supplementary or additional expenditure upon some new service not
contemplated in the annual financial statement for that year; or
(b) if any money has been spent on any service during a financial
year in excess of the amount granted for that service and for that year,
cause to be laid before both the Houses of Parliament another statement
showing the estimated amount of that expenditure or cause to be presented to
the House of the People a demand for such excess, as the case may be.

(2) The provisions of articles 112, 113 and 114 shall have effect in
relation to any such statement and expenditure or demand and also to any law
to be made authorising the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated
Fund of India to meet such expenditure or the grant in respect of such demand
as they have effect in relation to the annual financial statement and the
expenditure mentioned therein or to a demand for a grant and the law to be
made for the authorisation of appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated
Fund of India to meet such expenditure or grant.

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