Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act, 1854

Accounts of Income and Charge of Consolidated Fund to be made up to the End of March, June, September, and December, instead of the old Quarter Days.

57 G. 3. c. 48. s. 6.

IV. 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 making up the Accounts of the Income and Charge of the said Consolidated Fund for the Quarters ending on the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, the Tenth Day of October, and the Fifth Day of January in each Year, to cause such Accounts to be made up for the Quarters ending on 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, and from and after the Time at which the said Accounts shall be first made up to any of such last-mentioned quarterly Days, in case it appear to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, upon making up such Accounts for the Quarter ending on any of such quarterly Days in any Year, that the Produce of the said Fund is not sufficient to defray the Charges thereupon, including such Charges as would fall due on the old quarterly Day then next, it shall be lawful for such Commissioners, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to cause or direct Exchequer Bills to be made out for the Deficiency, according to the Provisions of the Act of the Fifty-seventh Year of King George the Third, Chapter Forty-eight, and as if the last-mentioned quarterly Days had been mentioned in such Act instead of the quarterly Days mentioned therein, and the Provisions of the said Act shall be construed accordingly.