Section 23
Annual estimates
of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Act 1959
The Chairman shall, not later than one month before the commencement of each financial year, lay before the Board an estimate of the Board’s revenue and expenditure, including capital expenditure, for the ensuing year in such detail and form as the
Board may require.
(2)
A copy of such estimate shall be sent to each member of the Board not less than fourteen days prior to the meeting before which the estimate is to be laid.
*NOTE—This Act has been repealed by the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 [Act 372]–see subsection 128(1) Act 372.
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(3)
The Board shall consider the estimate so submitted and shall sanction the same either unaltered or subject to such alterations as it thinks fit.
(4)
Such estimate as sanctioned by the Board shall be submitted to the Minister who may, at any time within one month after receipt of the same, disallow such estimate, or any portion thereof, and return the same for amendment.
(5)
The Board shall, if the estimate is so returned by the Minister, forthwith proceed to amend the same, and shall resubmit the estimate so amended to the Minister.
(6)
The Board may, at any time during the year for which such estimate has been sanctioned, cause a supplementary estimate to be prepared and submitted to it.
(7)
Every such supplementary estimate shall be considered and sanctioned by the Board, and submitted to the Minister, and, if necessary, amended and resubmitted as if it were an original estimate.
(8)
The Board shall not incur expenditure otherwise than in accordance with estimates or supplementary estimates approved by the Minister.