Part 2Financial year 2009/10
6Emergency arrangements: overall cash authorisations
1
This section applies if, at the beginning of financial year 2009/10, there is no overall cash authorisation for that year for the purposes of section 4(2) of the 2000 Act.
2
Until there is in force a Budget Act providing such authorisation, there is to be taken to be an overall cash authorisation for each calendar month of that year in relation to each of—
a
the Scottish Administration, and
b
the direct-funded bodies,
of an amount determined in accordance with subsection (3) of this section; and section 4 of the 2000 Act has effect accordingly.
3
That amount is whichever is the greater of—
a
one-twelfth of the amount specified in section 3 in relation to the Scottish Administration or, as the case may be, the direct-funded body in question, and
b
the amount paid out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund under section 65(1)(c) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) in the corresponding calendar month of financial year 2008/09 for or in connection with expenditure of the Scottish Administration or that body.
4
Subsection (2) is subject to any provision made by Budget Act for financial year 2009/10.