The West Bengal Appropriation ( No. 1) Act, 2023

No. WB(Part-III)/2023/SAR-7

Registered No. WB/SC-247

1Kolltata Gapttt

Extraordinary Published by Authority

FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2023 [SAKA 1944

PHALGUNA 26]

PART III—Acts of the West Bengal Legislature. GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL LAW DEPARTMENT Legislative NOTIFICATION

No. 259-L.-17th March, 2023.—The following Act of the West Bengal Legislature, having been assented to by the Governor, is hereby published for general information:—

West Bengal Act II of 2023

THE WEST BENGAL APPROPRIATION (NO. 1) ACT, 2023. [Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.] [Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 17th March, 2023.]

An Act to authorise payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of West Bengal for the services and purposes of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 2023.

WHEREAS it is expedient to authorise payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of West Bengal for the services and purposes of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 2023;

It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:-

This Act may be called the West Bengal Appropriation (No. 1) Act, 2023.

From and out of the Consolidated Fund of West Bengal, there may be paid and applied sums not exceeding those specified in column 3 of the Schedule amounting in the aggregate to the sum of rupees twenty-one thousand seven hundred forty-three crore two lakh and twenty-eight thousand only towards defraying the several charges which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 2023 in respect of the services and purposes specified in column 2 of the Schedule.

The sums authorised to be paid and applied from and out of the Consolidated Fund of West Bengal by this Act shall be appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the Schedule in relation to the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 2023.