RECOMMENDATION

Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled “An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024”.

Marginal note:Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act No. 4, 2023–24.

Marginal note:$20,678,755,329 granted for 2023–24

2 There may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum not exceeding in the aggregate $20,678,755,329 towards defraying the various charges and expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, not otherwise provided for, which is the total of the amounts of the items set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for that fiscal year as set out in Schedules 1 and 2.

Marginal note:Transfers of appropriations

3 The transfers of appropriations set out in the Estimates referred to in section 2 are deemed to have been authorized on April 1, 2023.

Marginal note:Purpose of each item

• 4 (1) 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.

• Marginal note:Effective date

  (2) The provisions of each item set out in Schedules 1 and 2 are deemed to have effect as of April 1, 2023.

Marginal note:Adjustments in accounts of Canada — Schedule 1

5 An appropriation that is granted by this Act or any other Act and referred to in Schedule 1 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.

Marginal note:Adjustments in accounts of Canada — Schedule 2

• 6 (1) An appropriation that is granted by this Act or any other Act and referred to 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.

• Marginal note: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, 2025, 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, 2024.