Road Traffic Act, 1933
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Finance. |
10.—(1) All expenses incurred by any Minister or by the Commissioner in the execution of the Roads Act, 1920 , or of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be defrayed out of the Road Fund, and for that purpose there shall, in respect of every financial year, be paid into the Exchequer from the Road Fund at such times and in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct such sums as the Minister shall, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, determine to be the amount of the expenses so incurred in the execution of the Roads Act, 1920, and of this Act in that financial year. | |
(2) Where the Minister for Finance is satisfied that the amount of the expenses incurred by any Minister or by the Commissioner in the execution of the Roads Act, 1920 , or of this Act in any financial year cannot conveniently be determined, the sum payable under this section into the Exchequer from the Road Fund in respect of such expenses may, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, be calculated in any manner approved of by the Minister for Finance and, in particular, may be determined as a percentage of the total amounts paid into the Road Fund from any source in that financial year. | ||
(3) Any expenses which are by virtue of this section to be defrayed out of the Road Fund may, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, be paid directly out of the Road Fund, and any salary or remuneration of any person so paid directly out of the Road Fund shall for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1923, be deemed to be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas. | ||
(4) Where, in the opinion of the Minister and of the Minister for Finance, any expenses which were incurred after the 1st day of April, 1932, and before the coming into operation of this section and were paid out of the Exchequer, would, if sub-section (3) of this section had been in operation at the time when such expenses were so incurred, have been paid directly out of the Road Fund, the amount of such expenses shall be refunded to the Exchequer from the Road Fund at such time and in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct. | ||
(5) The expenses incurred by any Minister or by the Commissioner in the execution of the Roads Act, 1920 , or of this Act in any financial year shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to include such charges in respect of superannuation and other allowances and gratuities payable on death or retirement as the Minister shall, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, determine to be proper. | ||
(6) Sub-section (4) of section 3 of the Roads Act, 1920 , shall be construed and have effect as if paragraphs (b) and (c) of that sub-section were omitted therefrom and as if the expenses required by this section to be defrayed out of the Road Fund were included in the expenses mentioned in paragraph (e) of the said sub-section. |