Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act, 1997
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Special account. |
10.—(1) There shall be set up on the establishment day a special account, to be funded from moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to be used to pay awards made by the Tribunal and the non-statutory scheme Tribunal and to pay the costs of the Tribunal in administering this Act and of the Scheme administered by the non-statutory scheme Tribunal. | |
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the moneys in the special account may be used at any time but shall only be used for the purposes for which they were voted and shall be issued out of that account only by direction of the Minister for Finance. | ||
(3) Any moneys, including interest (if any), in the special account may be paid into, or disposed of for the benefit of, the Exchequer in accordance with the directions of the Minister for Finance. | ||
(4) On the establishment day the special account set up by section 3 of the Appropriation Act, 1995 , shall stand dissolved and all moneys in that account shall be transferred on that day to the special account set up by this section. | ||
(5) Any moneys provided by the Oireachtas for the special account set up by section 3 of the Appropriation Act, 1995 , may be paid into the special account set up by this section. | ||
(6) In this section “special account”, unless the context otherwise requires, means an account for the purposes of this Act and the Scheme administered by the non-statutory scheme Tribunal in the joint names of the Minister and the Minister for Finance, which account shall— | ||
(a) be an account with the Paymaster General, | ||
(b) be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Finance in consultation with the Minister, may determine, and | ||
(c) be subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General. |