Marginal note:Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act No. 2, 2016–17.

Marginal note:$63,449,277,602.76 granted for 2016–17

2 There may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum not exceeding in the aggregate $63,449,277,602.76 towards defraying the various charges and expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, not otherwise provided for, being the total of the following amounts:

• (a) $59,282,865,971.01, which is the total of the amounts of the items that are set out in the Proposed Schedule 1 set out in the Annex to the Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017 and that are set out in Schedule 1 to this Act less the total of the interim appropriations granted on account of those items by Appropriation Act No. 1, 2016–17, and

• (b) $4,166,411,631.75, which is the total of the amounts of the items that are set out in the Proposed Schedule 2 set out in the Annex to those Estimates and that are set out in Schedule 2 to this Act less the total of the interim appropriations granted on account of those items by Appropriation Act No. 1, 2016–17.

Marginal note:Purpose of each item

• 3 (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 in Schedules 1 and 2 are deemed to have effect as of April 1, 2016.

Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note: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.

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, 2018, 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, 2017.

Marginal note:Public Accounts

7 Amounts paid or applied under the authority of this Act are to be accounted for in the Public Accounts under section 64 of the Financial Administration Act.