Part 2Financial year 2013/14
6Emergency arrangements
1
This section applies if, at the beginning of financial year 2013/14, there is no overall cash authorisation for that year for the purposes of section 4(2) of the PFA Act 2000.
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,
b
the direct-funded bodies,
of an amount determined under subsection (3).
3
That amount is whichever is the greater of—
a
one-twelfth of the amount specified in section 4(2) or (3) in relation to the Scottish Administration or (as the case may be) the direct-funded body in question,
b
the amount paid out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund under section 65(1)(c) of the Scotland Act 1998 in the corresponding calendar month of financial year 2012/13 for or in connection with expenditure of the Scottish Administration or (as the case may be) that direct-funded body.
4
Section 4 of the PFA Act 2000 has effect accordingly.
5
This section is subject to any provision made by a Budget Act for financial year 2013/14.