Public Accounts and Charges Act, 1891

Abolition of office of Receiver-General of Inland Revenue and provision as to Inland Revenue moneys.

1.(1) The office of Receiver-General of Inland Revenue is hereby abolished. . . .

(2) All money and securities for money from time to time collected or received in Great Britain for or on account of Inland Revenue shall (except as to sums legally paid thereout) be paid or remitted to the Bank of England in such manner and in accordance with such regulations as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, with the approval of the Treasury, may direct, and shall be placed to an account in the books of the bank, entitled “The General Account of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue,” and all money and securities for money from time to time collected or received in Ireland for or on account of Inland Revenue (except as aforesaid) shall be paid into the Bank of Ireland to the account of Her Majesty’s exchequer, or as the Treasury direct.

(3) Payments or transfers from the said account at the Bank of England to the account of the Exchequer, or to the account of any other public department of the State, and other payments necessary to be made thereout, shall be made, and the accounts of the said Commissioners with the Bank of England shall be kept in such manner and under such regulations as the Treasury prescribe or approve.

(4) Where by any Act heretofore passed, or any bond or other instrument now in force, any payment is required or secured to be made to the Receiver-General of Inland Revenue, or to his account, the Act, bond, or instrument, shall be construed as requiring or securing the payment to be made to the account of the said Commissioners, or to a collector of Inland Revenue, or other person authorised to receive money on behalf of the said Commissioners.