S. 24(1) amended by No. 76/1998 s. 3(1)(j).
(1) The Secretary must before 31 May in each year prepare a budget of all revenues to be paid into the Conservation, Forests and Lands Stores Suspense Account and the Conservation, Forests and Lands Plant and Machinery Fund and all expenditures to be charged against each of those accounts.
(2) The budget must be prepared in the form approved by the Treasurer and must give reasons for the items contained in it.
(3) The budget must be submitted to the Treasurer not later than 31 May before the year to which it relates.
(4) The Treasurer may approve the budget or may make such alterations to it as the Treasurer sees fit.
(5) The Treasurer may from time to time determine the amount to be paid out of the Conservation, Forests and Lands Stores Suspense Account or the Conservation, Forests and Lands Plant and Machinery Fund, and the amount so determined must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.