Cap. 478 чл. 18Estimates of the Commissioner.

(1) The Commissioner shall, by the end of September of each year or such other month as the Minister may prescribe, submit to the Minister, a business plan for the following three financial years together with an estimated capital and recurrent expenditure and income for the following year:

Provided that the estimates for the first financial year of the Commissioner shall be prepared and adopted within such time as the Minister may by notice in writing to the Commissioner specify.

(2) In the preparation of the estimates referred to in subarticle

(1) the Commissioner shall take account of any funds and other moneys that may be due to be paid to it out of the Consolidated Fund during the relevant financial year, whether by virtue of this Act or an appropriation Act or any other law. The Commissioner shall prepare the said estimates so as to ensure that the total revenues of the Commissioner are at least sufficient to meet all sums properly chargeable to the Commissioner’s revenue account including, but without prejudice to the generality of that expression, depreciation.

(3) The estimates shall include the estimates for the Commission.

(4) The estimates shall be made out in such form and shall contain such information and such comparisons with previous years as the Minister and or the Minister responsible for finance may direct.

(5) A copy of the estimates shall, upon their adoption by the Commissioner, be sent forthwith by the Commissioner to the Minister and to the Minister responsible for finance.

(6) The Minister shall at the earliest opportunity and not later than six weeks after he has received a copy of the estimates from the Commissioner approve the same with or without amendment, after consultation with the Minister responsible for finance.