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Public Budgeting and Accounting Act (Amendment) Decree, 1996

A 1996 decree amending the law on public budgeting and accounting in Sierra Leone.

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Summary

The Public Budgeting and Accounting Act (Amendment) Decree, 1996 was made during the transitional government period and amended the law then governing public budgeting and accounting — the preparation and execution of the budget and the accounting for public money.

As an amending instrument it altered specified provisions of the principal public-budgeting law and is read together with it. (The public financial management framework was later developed through the Government Budgeting and Accountability Act, 2005 and the Public Financial Management Act, 2016.)

Main provisions

  • Amends the law on public budgeting and accounting.
  • Concerns the preparation and execution of the budget and public accounts.
  • Made during the transitional government period of 1996.
  • Read together with the principal law it amends.