LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 53



53.(1) In each financial year a council shall cause to be submitted to it
estimates of the income and expenditure of the council during the
next-following financial year.

(2) A council, before the prescribed date in each year,

(a)shall consider the estimates for the next-following financial year;

(b)may revise the estimates in such manner as the council thinks fit;

(c)shall approve the estimates, subject to any revision under paragraph (b);

(d)shall authorise the expenditure included in the estimates; and

(e)shall fix for the next-following financial year the amount estimated to be
required to be raised by means of a rate made by the council.

(3) No expenditure shall be incurred by or on behalf of a council unless

(a)previously authorised in accordance with the estimates approved by the
council; or

(b)otherwise previously authorised by the council; or

(c)if not so authorised, necessarily incurred in circumstances of emergency;

(4) A council may make standing orders for the purpose of giving effect to
this section so long as such orders are not inconsistent with any
statutory provision.

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 53