What is Supplementary, additional or excess grants? What is Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants? Article 205 and 206 of Constitution of India, 1949
Supplementary, additional or excess grants and Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants are defined under Article 205 and 206 of Constitution of India 1949. Provisions under these Article are:
Article 205 of Constitution of India "Supplementary, additional or excess grants"
(1) The Governor shall-
(a) if the amount authorised by any law made in accordance
with the provisions of Article 204 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 the House or the Houses of the Legislature of the State another statement showing the estimated amount of that expenditure or cause to be presented to the Legislative Assembly of the State a demand for such excess, as the case may be.
(2) The provisions of articles 202, 203 and 204 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 the State 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 the State to meet such expenditure or grant.
Article 206 of Constitution of India "Votes on account,
votes of credit and exceptional grants"
(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;
? 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.