What are the Supplementary, additional or excess grants? What is Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants? Article 115 and 116 of Constitution of India, 1949
Supplementary, additional or excess grants and Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants are defined under Article 115 and 116 of Constitution of India 1949. Provisions under these Articles are:
Article 115 of Constitution of India "Supplementary, additional or excess grants"
(1) The President shall-
(a) If the amount authorized 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 authorizing 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 authorization of appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India to meet such expenditure or grant.
Article 116 of Constitution of India "Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants"
(1) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of
this Chapter, the House of the People 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 113 for
the voting of such grant and the passing of the law in
accordance with the provisions of Article 114 in relation to
that expenditure;
(b) to make a grant for meeting an unexpected demand upon
there sources of India when on account of the magnitude or
the indefinite character of the service the demand cannot be
stand 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 Parliament shall
have power to authorize by law the withdrawal of moneys from
the Consolidated Fund of India for the purposes for which
the said grants are made.
(2) The provisions of articles 113 and 114 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 authorization of appropriation of
moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India to meet such
expenditure.