Special Warrants

(1) If the Minister is satisfied that there has arisen an urgent and unforeseen need for expenditure which, 11 (a) being in respect of a new service or new goods is not provided for in any Act, or (b) will result in an excess of the sum provided for that service or those goods in any Act, and which cannot without serious injury to the public interest be postponed until the next meeting of the House of Representatives called for consideration of supplementary estimates, he may by Special Warrant under his hand and in anticipation of grants being made by the National Assembly authorize the issue of moneys from the Consolidated Revenue Fund in such amounts as may be necessary to meet that need. (2) Each Special Warrant shall specify under which heads and subheads of the expenditure estimates the expenditure authorized shall be recorded and such expenditure shall be accounted for in the same manner as if it had been authorized by an Appropriation Act. (3) All authorizations by Special Warrant shall be reported to the House of Representatives at its next meeting where practicable, and at the next meeting of the House of Representatives called for supplementary estimates the Minister shall ask the House of Representatives to confirm the appropriation from the Consolidated Revenue Fund by enactment of a Supplementary Appropriation Act, Provided howsoever that all such authorizations by Special Warrant must be reported to and confirmed by the House of Representatives within three months of the date of any such (4) Authorizations by Special Warrant which have not been confirmed by the enactment of a Supplementary Appropriation Act shall not at any time exceed in the aggregate an amount equivalent to ten per centum of the amount voted for the respective head of the approved expenditure estimates for the 12 year, or the sum of five hundred thousand dollars in the case of new goods or a new service.