Section 46:
Votes on Account and exceptional grant.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing
provisions of this Part, the Legislative Assembly shall have power—
(a) to make any grant in advance in respect of the estimated expenditure for a part of any
financial year pending the completion of the procedure prescribed in section 43 for the voting of such
grant and the passing of the law in accordance with the provisions of section 44 in relation to that
expenditure;
(b) to make a grant for meeting an unexpected demand upon the resources of the autonomous
State when on account of the magnitude or the indefinite character of the service the demand cannot
be stated with the details ordinarily given in the annual financial statement;
(c) to make an exceptional grant which forms no part of the current service of any financial year;and the Legislature of Meghalaya shall have power to authorise by law the withdrawal of moneys from
the Consolidated Fund of Meghalaya for the purpose for which the said grants are made.
(2) The provisions of sections 43 and 44 shall have effect in relation to the making of any grant under
sub-section (1) and to any law to be made under that sub-section as they have effect in relation to the
making of a grant with regard to any expenditure mentioned in the annual financial statement and the law
to be made for the authorisation of appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of Meghalaya
to meet such expenditure.