Legal expert: Some budget errors are only corrected by law … and he explains the method
Legal expert: Some budget errors are only corrected by law … and he explains the method
04/2020 18:21:43
The legal expert, Tariq Harb, said today, Tuesday, that some errors that occurred in the fiscal budget law for 2021 cannot be corrected except by law.
Harb said to {Euphrates News} that “the errors that occur are of two types. The first is in printing the House of Representatives because they say one thing and another thing is printed and published,” indicating that “the mistake of the Presidency of the Republic upon approval this may not be amended until a new law is issued that includes the amendment of the budget law.”
He added, “The second mistake was when the Ministry of Justice printed the Justice Department in the Official Gazette, Al-Waqi’a newspaper. This error does not need a law, but rather it needs to obtain the approval of the Presidency of the Republic to correct this error because the publishing law is in the Official Gazette.”
And, and that “mistakes that occur upon publication, the Presidency of the Republic can correct them,” noting that “these errors are not the first time.”
He explained that “the Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister have nothing to do with correcting the error that becomes in the draft that was written in the House of Representatives,” explaining that “the House of Representatives must correct it by amending the Budget Law with a first and second reading because this error is original, but the error is when printing in the Ministry of Justice from the draft.” In the Al-Waqa’iq newspaper, this does not require legal amendment, rather it only needs the approval of the presidential office. ”
Harb concluded by saying, “If the Office of the Presidency agrees, it will write a correction statement in the next issue of Al-Waqa’i’ newspaper. ”
Earlier today, the Ministry of Finance had identified errors in the tables and texts of the 2021 budget announced in the Official Gazette, announcing that it would “approach the Presidency of the Republic for the purpose of correction.”
It is noteworthy that the House of Representatives approved, on March 31, the 2021 budget, with total expenditures amounting to 129 trillion dinars (about 88 billion dollars), while it recorded a deficit of 28 trillion (about 19 billion dollars).
The President of the Republic, Barham Salih, ratified the budget law on April 8.
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