Constitution 206 — Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants

The Constitution of India, 1950

Statutory text

(1)
Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, the
Legislative Assembly of a State shall have power—
(a) to make any grant in advance in respect of the estimated
expenditure for a part of any financial year pending the completion of
the procedure prescribed in article 203 for the voting of such grant and
the passing of the law in accordance with the provisions of article 204 in
relation to that expenditure;
(b) to make a grant for meeting an unexpected demand upon the
resources of the State when on account of the magnitude or the indefinite
character of the service the demand cannot be stated with the details
ordinarily given in an annual financial statement;
(c) to make an exceptional grant which forms no part of the current
service of any financial year,
and the Legislature of the State shall have power to authorise by law the
withdrawal of moneys from the Consolidated Fund of the State for the purposes
for which the said grants are made.
(2) The provisions of articles 203 and 204 shall have effect in relation to
the making of any grant under clause (1) and to any law to be made under that
clause as they have effect in relation to the making of a grant with regard to any
expenditure mentioned in the annual financial statement and the law to be made

for the authorisation of appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund
of the State to meet such expenditure.

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