Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922

Minister for Finance may apportion Grants, etc.

9.—Wherever under any British Statute any grant, whether annual or capital or any loan or advance is directed or authorized to be made by the Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund or by the Treasury or any other Government Department out of any other fund or any sum of money is authorised to be borrowed by the Treasury or any other Government Department and the amount or the maximum or minimum limit of such grant, loan, advance or sum of money is by such Statute or otherwise fixed either for the whole of the late United Kingdom or for any part thereof which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister for Finance (in addition to the adaptations of such Statute made by or under this Act) may by Order apportion such amount or limit between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which such amount or limit is fixed as aforesaid, and may by such Order fix the amount or the maximum or minimum limit (as the case may be) of such grant, loan, advance or sum of money to be made or borrowed under such Statute in Saorstát Eireann.