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BILL C-41

SUMMARY

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1 This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act No. 1, 2017–18.

$30,140,965,114.‍44 granted for 2017–18

2 There may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum not exceeding in the aggregate $30,140,965,114.‍44 towards defraying the various charges and expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, not otherwise provided for, which is the total of the following amounts:

• (a) $17,753,541,673.‍25, which is three twelfths of the total of the amounts of the items set out in the Proposed Schedules 1 and 2 set out in the Annex to the Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, except for those items set out in Schedules 1.‍1 to 1.‍5 to this Act; 

• (b) $1,237,500,000.‍00, which is eleven twelfths of the total of the amounts of the items in those Estimates set out in Schedule 1.‍1 to this Act;

• (c) $1,376,303,147.‍92, which is seven twelfths of the total of the amounts of the items in those Estimates set out in Schedule 1.‍2 to this Act;

• (d) $1,547,065,649.‍50, which is six twelfths of the total of the amounts of the items in those Estimates set out in Schedule 1.‍3 to this Act;

• (e) $552,235,743.‍76, which is five twelfths of the total of the amounts of the items in those Estimates set out in Schedule 1.‍4 to this Act; and

• (f) $7,674,318,900.‍01, which is four twelfths of the total of the amounts of the items in those Estimates set out in Schedule 1.‍5 to this Act.

Purpose of each item

3 The amount authorized by this Act to be paid in respect of an item may be paid only for the purposes, and subject to any terms and conditions, specified in the item.

Commitments

4 (1) Where an item in the Estimates referred to in section 2 confers authority to enter into commitments up to an amount stated in those Estimates or increases the amount up to which commitments may be entered into under any other Act, or where a commitment is to be entered into under subsection (2), the commitment may be entered into in accordance with the terms of that item or in accordance with that subsection if the amount of the commitment proposed to be entered into, together with all previous commitments entered into in accordance with this section or under that other Act, does not exceed the total amount of the commitment authority stated in that item or calculated in accordance with that subsection.

Commitment limits — revenue-spending authority

(2) Where an item in the Estimates referred to in section 2 or a provision of any Act confers authority to spend revenues, commitments may be entered into in accordance with the terms of that item or provision up to an amount equal to the aggregate of

• (a) the amount, if any, appropriated in respect of that item or provision, and

• (b) whichever is greater: the amount of revenues actually received or the amount of the estimated revenues set out in those Estimates for that item or in respect of that provision.

Adjustments in accounts of Canada — section 2 amounts

5 Subject to section 6, an appropriation that is granted by this Act or any other Act and referred to in section 2 may be charged after the end of the fiscal year for which the appropriation is granted at any time before the day on which the Public Accounts for that fiscal year are tabled in Parliament, for the purpose of making adjustments in the accounts of Canada for that fiscal year that do not require payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Adjustments in accounts of Canada — Schedule 2

6 (1) An appropriation that is granted by this Act or any other Act and set out in Schedule 2 may be charged after the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the appropriation is granted at any time before the day on which the Public Accounts for that second fiscal year are tabled in Parliament, for the purpose of making adjustments in the accounts of Canada for that second fiscal year that do not require payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Order of payment

(2) Despite any other provision of this Act, amounts appropriated by this Act and set out in Schedule 2 may be paid and applied at any time on or before March 31, 2019, so long as every payment is charged first against the relevant amount appropriated under any Act that is earliest in time until that amount is exhausted, next against the relevant amount appropriated under any other Act, including this Act, that is next in time until that amount is exhausted and so on. The balance of amounts so appropriated by this Act that have not been charged, subject to the adjustments referred to in section 37 of the Financial Administration Act, lapse at the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.