CentralAct 39 of 2003
The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003
An Act to provide for the responsibility of the Central Government to ensure inter-generational equity in fiscal management and long-term macro-economic stability by achieving sufficient revenue surplus and removing fiscal impediments in the effective conduct of monetary policy and prudential debt management consistent with fiscal sustainability through limits on the Central Government borrowings, debt and deficits, greater transparency in fiscal operations of the Central Government and conducting fiscal policy in a medium-term framework and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Sections
14 in this Act
- 1Short title, extent and commencement
- 2Definitions
- 3Fiscal policy statements to be laid before Parliament
- 4Fiscal management principles
- 5Borrowing from Reserve Bank
- 6Measures for fiscal transparency
- 7Measures to enforce compliance
- 7ALaying of review reports
- 8Power to make rules
- 9Rules to be laid before each House of Parliament
- 10Protection of action taken in good faith
- 11Jurisdiction of civil courts barred
- 12Application of other laws not barred
- 13Power to remove difficulties