Common use of RECURRENT GRANTS Clause in Contracts

RECURRENT GRANTS. 151. The autonomous Bougainville Government will receive an annual unconditional grant to cover the recurrent costs of functions for which it is responsible including funding of newly transferred powers and functions, based on their costs. 152. The funding of maintenance and operational costs of former development projects will be subject to consultation when funding is sought for new projects. 153. These consultations will be based on mutual recognition of constraints on the National Government, the particular situation in Bougainville during the early phases of restoration, and cost sharing 154. The grant will be adjusted annually in the same manner as annual grants for a provincial government activity under the Organic Law on Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments - that is, by the percentage increase or decrease in the cost of living or by the percentage increase or decrease in the payments to the Consolidated Revenue Fund in the year two years before the year of grant. 155. The calculation and timely payment of the grant will be guaranteed by law (debt servicing and salary obligations must be paid first). 156. The grant will be cut only if seriously adverse economic conditions arise, requiring "across the board" cuts to the National Budget and by no more than the average of these cuts.