This is followed by a preamble and then the enacting clause: Until 2000 an older form of preamble was used:[citation needed] If, as most of the acts do, the legislation covers two fiscal years the legislation's first two sections will contain the amounts to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund for each particular financial year.

Typically two or three consolidated fund acts are passed each calendar year.

[1] A Consolidated Fund Act normally becomes spent on the conclusion of the financial year to which it relates.

The Consolidated Fund (Permanent Charges Redemption) Acts 1873 and 1883 was the collective title of the Consolidated Fund (Permanent Charges Redemption) Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict.

c. 57) and the Consolidated Fund (Permanent Charges Redemption) Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict.