Commentary on provisions of Act Section 34: Funding of PEACE PLUS programme
PEACE PLUS is an EU programme focused on supporting social, economic and regional stability, in particular by promoting cohesion between communities. It is the successor programme to the current Peace Programme.
	Subsection (1) authorises any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State when making payments to the EU or an EU entity for the purposes of supporting the PEACE PLUS programme and any successor programmes. It is drafted to satisfy the general principle of constitutional propriety (often known as the ‘PAC Concordat’ or ‘Baldwin Convention’) that, subject to certain recognised exceptions, new functions involving expenditure which is neither modest nor temporary for the purposes of Box 2.6 of Managing Public Money should be authorised by specific legislation and not by Supply and Appropriation Acts alone.
	This subsection provides financial authority for any such expenditure to be paid out of money provided by Parliament through its annual Supply and Appropriation process. This provision is required as support for the PEACE PLUS programme does not form part of the "future relationship agreement" as defined in section 37(1)), and as such is not covered by the general financial provision in section 35.
	Subsection (2) defines "EU entity" and "the PEACE PLUS programme" for the purposes of this section.