Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act, 1854

Quarterly Accounts of Receipts and Expenditure of the United Kingdom to be made up to the End of March, June, September, and December, instead of the old Quarter Days.

10 G. 4. c. 27.

III. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, at and after such Time as may appear to them convenient, instead of the Accounts of the actual Receipt and Expenditure of the United Kingdom now by Law directed to be prepared Four Times in the Year, within Thirty Days after the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, the Tenth Day of October, and the Fifth Day of January respectively, showing the actual Receipt and Expenditure of the United Kingdom in the Four Quarters for the whole of the Year immediately preceding such several quarterly Days respectively, according to the actual Receipt and Issue of Monies at the Receipt of Her Majesty’s Exchequer, to cause like Accounts to be prepared within Thirty Days after, the Thirty-first Day of March, the Thirtieth Day of June, the Thirtieth Day of September, and the Thirty-first Day of December in each Year, showing such Receipt and Expenditure in the Four Quarters for the whole of the Year ending on such several last-mentioned quarterly Days respectively, and from and after the Time at which the said Accounts shall be first made up to any of such last-mentioned quarterly Days to which such Accounts shall be made up, in pursuance of this Act, the Sums by the Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-seven, directed to be from Time to Time issued out of the said Consolidated Fund to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, shall be ascertained according to such Accounts, as if the last-mentioned quarterly Days had been mentioned in the said Act instead of the quarterly Days mentioned therein, and all other Provisions relating to the Accounts required to be prepared as aforesaid, and referring to such quarterly Days shall be construed in like Manner.