Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act, 1854

PUBLIC REVENUE AND CONSOLIDATED FUND CHARGES ACT 1854

CAP. XCIV.

An Act to alter the Mode of providing for certain Expenses now charged upon certain Branches of the Public Revenues and upon the Consolidated Fund. [10th August 1854.]

‘Whereas the several Charges and Payments described in the Schedule (A.) to this Act are charged, by various Acts of Parliament or otherwise, upon certain Branches of the Public Revenue: And whereas certain other Charges and Payments described in the Schedule (B.) to this Act are also charged by the like Authorities upon the said Revenue and upon the Consolidated Fund respectively: And whereas it is expedient, in order to bring the gross Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man under the more immediate View and Control of Parliament, that such Charges and Payments should be otherwise provided for, as herein-after mentioned, and that the financial Accounts should be prepared and Payments regulated with reference to the Periods for which Supplies are now commonly granted by Parliament:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: