THE PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE
What does this mean?
The Governor causes the State's annual financial statement to be laid before the legislature. It distinguishes charged expenditure and other expenditure as well as revenue and other expenditure.
State Governors, ministers, legislatures, High Courts and the subordinate judiciary.
Why is this provision here?
State public finance and legislative business need structured procedures and lawful spending authorisations so elected scrutiny can work.
Historical evidenceThis Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason.
The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.
Limits, exceptions & reading carefully
Educational summary of the linked source text. Exceptions, provisos, implementing laws and applicable judgments must be read before applying it to a real case.
Read the official constitutional text
202. Annual financial statement.—(1) The Governor shall in respect of
every financial year cause to be laid before the House or Houses of the
Legislature of the State a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of
the State for that year, in this Part referred to as the “annual financial statement”.
(2) The estimates of expenditure embodied in the annual financial
statement shall show separately—
(a) the sums required to meet expenditure described by this
Constitution as expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the
State; and
(b) the sums required to meet other expenditure proposed to be made
from the Consolidated Fund of the State,
and shall distinguish expenditure on revenue account from other expenditure.
(3) The following expenditure shall be expenditure charged on the
Consolidated Fund of each State—
(a) the emoluments and allowances of the Governor and other
expenditure relating to his office;
(b) the salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker
of the Legislative Assembly and, in the case of a State having a Legislative
Council, also of the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative
Council;
(c) debt charges for which the State is liable including interest, sinking
fund charges and redemption charges, and other expenditure relating to
the raising of loans and the service and redemption of debt;
(d) expenditure in respect of the salaries and allowances of Judges of
any High Court;
(e) any sums required to satisfy any judgment, decree or award of any
court or arbitral tribunal;
(f) any other expenditure declared by this Constitution, or by the
Legislature of the State by law, to be so charged.
Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.
