BILL1996

An Act to authorize the payment of

certain amounts for the Public Service

for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 1996

Preamble

Messages from the Honourable the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Ontario and from the Honourable the Administrator of the Province of Ontario, accompanied by estimates and supplementary estimates, indicate that the amounts mentioned in the Schedule are required to pay expenses of the public service of Ontario that are not otherwise provided for, for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 1996;

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Supply granted

1. (1) For the period from April 1, 1995 to March 31, 1996, amounts not exceeding a total of $13,554,798,500 may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to be applied to the operating and capital expenses of the public service, as set out in the Schedule, that are not otherwise provided for.

Votes and items

(2) The money shall be applied in accordance with the votes and items of the estimates and supplementary estimates.

Expenditures

(3) An operating or capital expenditure in the votes and items of the estimates and supplementary estimates may be made by the Crown through any ministry to which, during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1996, responsibility has been given for the program or activity that includes that expenditure.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on March 31, 1996.

Short title

3. The short title of this Act is the Supply Act, 1996.