
 State of Odisha - Act
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 The Orissa Contingency Fund Rules, 1967
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 ODISHA
   
 India
 
 The Orissa Contingency Fund Rules, 1967
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 Rule THE-ORISSA-CONTINGENCY-FUND-RULES-1967 of 1967
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* Published on 13 September 1967
* Commenced on 13 September 1967
 The Orissa Contingency Fund Rules, 1967
 
 Published vide Notification No. 31721-BI-156/67-F, dated the 13th September, 1967, Published vide Orissa Gazette, Part 3, No. 38, of 1967/27.9.1967
 
 Notification No. 31721-BI-156/67-F, dated the 13th September, 1967. - In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 3 of the Orissa Contingency Fund Act, 1967 (Orissa Act 18 of 1967), the State Government do hereby make the following rules in supersession of the Orissa Contingency Fund Rules, 1950.
 
### 1. Short title.
 - These rules shall be called the Orissa Contingency Fund Rules, 1967.
 
### 2. The Orissa Contingency Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Fund) shall be held on behalf of the Governor by the Secretary to the Government in the Finance Department.
 
### 3. Advances from the Fund shall be made for the purposes of meeting unforseen and emergent expenditure pending authorisation by the Legislature.
 
### 4. All applications for advances from the Fund shall be made to the Secretary to Government in the Finance Department with the particulars contained in the form enclosed to these rules (Annexure) .
 
### 5. Even in cases where savings are available within a grant, token advances from the Fund for meeting a part or whole of the expenditure from savings should not be taken. Advances taken from the Fund shall be for the full amount required for expenditure.
 
### 6. (a) The Finance Department shall maintain an account of the Fund and shall see that the sum total of the advances sanctioned from the Fund does not exceed the balance in the Fund at any time.
 
(b) In all cases supplementary grants shall be obtained by the Controlling Offices and Administrative Departments concerned for the recoupment of advances sanctioned from the Fund at the first session of the Assembly in which Supplementary Estimates will be presented, immediately after the advance is sanctioned [\* \* \*]
 
 [Deleted vide Orissa Gazette Part 111/25.7.1969.]
 
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(c) As soon as the Supplementary Appropriation Act is passed, steps shall be taken by the Administrative Department concerned to issue an order for recoupment of the advance and a copy of the order which shall give reference to the number and the date of the order in which the advance was originally sanctioned and to the Supplementary Appropriation Act, shall be forwarded to the Accountant-General, Orissa and to the Finance Department.
 
### 7. All orders sanctioning advances from the Fund shall issue from the Finance Department and copies of such order specifying the amount of advances and the grant or appropriation to which they relate shall be forwarded to the Accountant-General, Orissa.
 
### 8. The Controlling Officers shall see that the actual expenditure out of the advances from the Fund does not exceed the sanctioned amounts under any circumstances.
 
### 9. (a) In the schedules of the supplementary demands prepared and presented for the vote of the Legislature for the recoupment of advance sanctioned from the Fund, the following notes shall be appended to the explanatory notes thereto.
 
 "A sum of Rs...........has been advanced from the Contingency Fund in ............ and a corresponding amount is required to enable repayment to be made to that Fund."
 
(b) If the expenditure met out of the advances from the Fund is covered wholly or partly, from the savings available within the authorised appropriation, the note appended to the Supplementary Demand shall be in the following form.
 
 "A sum of Rs...........has been advanced from the Contingency Fund..............and an equivalent amount is required to enable repayment to be made to the Fund.
 
 The amount viz., Rs.........a part of that amount, viz, Rs.......... can be found by re-appropriation of savings within the grant and a token vote only is now required/a vote is required for the balance, viz., Rs........ only.
 
### 10. If at any time, after the order sanctioning an advance from the Fund has been issued in accordance with Rule 7, it is found that the advance sanctioned will remain wholly or partly utilised, an application shall be made to the sanctioning authority for cancelling or modifying the sanction, as the case may be.
 
### 11. All advances sanctioned from the Fund to meet the expenditure in excess of the provision for the service included in an Appropriation (Vote on Account) Act shall be repaid to the Fund as soon as the Appropriation Act in respect of the expenditure on the service for the whole year including the excess met from the advances from the Fund, has been passed.
 
### 12. (a) Separate accounts relating to the transactions of the Fund shall be maintained and verification of expenditure shall be carried on by the Controlling Officers. Actual expenditure incurred against advances from the Fund shall be recorded in the account relating to the Fund in the same detail as it would have been shown if it had been paid out of the Consolidated Fund.
 
(b) The Accountant General shall furnish to the Finance Department a quarterly report showing actuals of expenditure incurred out of the advances sanctioned from Fund as soon as possible after the end of each quarter.
 
(c) The Accountant-General shall be furnished with an account of the Fund as soon as possible after the close of each year by the Finance Department for verification with Audit office books.
 
 Annexure
 
 Application form for advance from the Orissa Contingency Fund
 
### 1. The Authority to whom the application should be made. ###
 2. Name of the Departments applying for the advance.
### 3. Proposal (in full). ###
 4. Whether the purpose for which advance is emergent, unforeseen and inescapable.
### 5. (i)  Whether proposal is a "New-Service" for which normally prior vote (Token or otherwise) of the Legislature is necessary. (ii)
 
 Does it involve any embarrassing commitment ?
 
### 6. The circumstances under which the expenditure could not be included in the current Year's Budget Estimate. ###
 7. Reasons for which the expenditure cannot be postponed till funds are provided by means of Supplementary Demand.
### 8. Full cost involved in the proposal for remaining part of the year and for the subsequent years. ###
 9. (i)  Amount required to be advanced from the Fund.
 (ii) Period for which the advance is necessary.
 
### 10. Amount available by re-appropriation from.the savings within the grant to meet the full or part of the advance. ###
 11. The Major, Minor, Sub-head and Primary Units of appropriation to which the expenditure to be met from the advance is finally debitable.
### 12. [ Whether the proposal has been previously examined and agreed to by the Finance Department.] [In case the proposal is agreed to by the Finance Department the relevant file extracts of the views recorded by them with the minutes of Minister or Deputy Minister concerned, if any, should be furnished along with the application.]
 Signature of the Secretary
 
 Department Applying for advance
 

