Committee Reports Detail

1.      (a)  There shall be a committee to beknown as the Finance (And 

Supplementary provisions) Committee, consistingof a maximum of 16 members to be nominated by the Committee of selection forapproval by the plenary, after the beginning of each session of parliament, butin any case not later than twenty-one days thereafter.

          (b) It shall be the duty of the committee to oversee financial activities ingovernance, and outside the mandate of the Public Accounts Committee, and inparticular to oversee the Ministry of Finance.

          (c) In its mandate the Committee shall absorb the role of the SupplementaryFinancial provisions Committee.  When the Supplementary Financialprovisions are laid on the table, they will stand referred to the FinanceCommittee.  But the role of the committee shall be only advisory to theHouse’s power off approval, pursuant to subsections (3) and (4) of theentrenched Section 112 of the Constitution.

          (d) The powers of the Committee shall be pursuant to subsection (6) of Section 93of the Constitution.

          (e) The committee may not, except after consultation with the Minister of Finance,make any recommendation that would dispose or charge any public revenue orpublic funds of Sierra Leone or revoke or alter any disposition thereon orcharge thereon or impose, alter or repeal any rate, tax or duty.

          (f) provided that they do not fall within the remit of the Ombudsman or any otherstatutory specialist institution on complaints, it shall be the duty of thecommittee to consider all petitions referred to it under the provisions of S.O.70(5) (Petitions), to classify such petitions, prepare abstracts thereon insuch form and manner as shall appear to it best suited to convey to the Houseall requisite information respecting their contents and the signatures attachedthereto and to report the same from time to time to the House.