Supplementary Financial Provisions

(1) If a Minister presents a Paper setting out the details of any proposals for expenditure likely to be incurred in the course of the current financial year either in respect of a service or of several services for which no provision has been made in an Appropriation Act for that year or in respect of further financial provision beyond the total sum already sanctioned for a particular Head or for particular Heads, it shall stand referred to the Committee of Supply without question put and shall be appointed to be considered on a day to be named by the Minister presenting the Paper, subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 65 (Committee of Supply). (2) On the day named under paragraph (1) of this Order, the Committee of Supply shall stand as the first item of Public Business and the House shall resolve itself into the Committee without question put. Belize Constitution 71 (3) When the House has resolved itself into a Committee of Supply to consider such a Paper, a Minister may move without notice (the recommendation or consent of the Governor-General being first signified) “That the Committee approves the proposal (or proposals) set out in Paper No. ...................” to which Motion amendments may be moved to add words either leaving out or reducing an item or a sub-head of any particular proposal or if there be more than one proposal leaving out any particular proposal, provided that when an amendment has been proposed to leave out or reduce any item or sub-head no amendment may be moved to an earlier item or sub-head and that when an amendment to leave out a proposal (or, where there is only one proposal, the question “That the Committee approves the proposal set out in Paper No. ...................”) has been proposed, no amendment to an item or sub-head in that proposal may be (4) When the Motion “That the Committee approves the proposal (or proposals) set out in Paper No. ..........................”, or that Motion as amended, has been agreed to, the Chairman shall leave the Chair and the Member in charge shall report that the Committee has come to a Resolution and move “That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution” and the question thereon shall be put forthwith without amendment or debate. (5) If the consideration of the proposal or proposals in a Paper has not been concluded by the hour at which the Chairman is directed under Standing Order No.12 (Hours of Sitting) to leave the Chair, the Member in charge shall, after reporting any Resolutions that may have been agreed to, report progress and ask leave to sit again and shall then name a day for the resumption of the Committee.