Measures to Enforce Compliance

(1) The Minister-in-Charge of the Department of Finance (hereinafter referred to as Minister of Finance), shall review, every half yearly, the trends in receipts and expenditure in relation to the budget estimates and place before the State Legislature, the outcome of such reviews. (2) Whenever there is either shortfall in revenue or excess of expenditure over the half-year targets mentioned in the Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement or the rules made under this Act, the State Government shall take appropriate measures for increasing revenue and/or for reducing the expenditure including curtailing of the sums authorised to be paid and applied from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the State: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to the expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State under clause (3) of Article 202 of the Constitution or any other expenditure, which is required to be incurred under any agreement or contract or such other expenditure which cannot be postponed or curtailed. (3) (a) Except as provided under this Act, no deviation in meeting the obligations cast on the State Government under this Act, shall be permissible without approval of the Legislature. (b) Where owing to unforeseen circumstances, any deviation is made in meeting the obligations cast on the State Government under this Act, the Minister of Finance shall make a statement in the Legislature explaining:- (i) any deviation in meeting the obligations cast on the State Government under this Act; (ii) whether such deviation is substantial and relates to the actual or the potential budgetary outcomes; and (iii) the remedial measures the State Government proposes to take. (4) The State Government may entrust an agency independent of the State Government to review periodically as required, the compliance of the provisions of this Act and such reviews shall be laid on the table of the State Legislature.