Ngiyabonga sihlalo. [Thank you, Chair.] This Finance Bill is meant to approve unauthorised expenditure as a direct charge against the National Revenue Fund. Most of the work on this Bill has already been done by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and the reports have come before this House and they were adopted.
Such unauthorised expenditure is approved subject to the following conditions. It is approved on condition that effective and appropriate disciplinary steps against officials who made or permitted unauthorised expenditure have been dealt with. It is also approved on condition that funds in excess of appropriation were spent in accordance with the programme and descriptions of the department on the essential services which could not be avoided and that implies that we did get value for money, but also that remedial steps have been taken by the accounting officer to prevent further occurrence of unauthorized expenditure, and that funds not spent in accordance with the purpose of the main division or a Vote are related to the objective of the departmental ones, and also, finally, that no fraudulent, corrupt activities were committed in permitting the expenditure.
This has since been dealt with by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and brought before this House and the committee has since also approved this Finance Bill and I therefore present this Finance Bill before this House for adoption. [Applause.]
There was no debate.
Bill read a first time.