S.I. No. 21/1925 - The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Winding-Up of a Fund For Congested Districts) Order, 1925.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1925. No. 21.

THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION (WINDING-UP OF A FUND FOR CONGESTED DISTRICTS) ORDER, 1925.

The following Order, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION. (WINDING-UP OF A FUND FOR CONGESTED DISTRICTS) ORDER, 1925. (No. 21 of 1925.)

has this day been made by the Executive Council.

DUBLIN,

This 26th day of March, 1925.

SAORSTÁ EIREANN

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION (WINDING UP OF A FUND FOR CONGESTED DISTRICTS) ORDER, 1925.

(No. 21 of 1925.)

WHEREAS by section 10 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), it is enacted that wherever the expenses or any part of the expenses of any public service assigned by or under that Act to any Department of State were at the date of the passing of that Act payable out of any specific departmental or other public funds other than the Central Fund or moneys provided by the Oireachtas, or any specific departmental or other public funds other than as aforesaid were at the date of the passing of that Act applicable to or towards the discharge of the expenses or any part of the expenses of any such public service it shall be lawful for the Executive Council by order to provide for the winding-up and the payment into or disposal for the benefit of the Exchequer, in such manner as the Minister for Finance may appoint, of the whole or any part of the specific departmental or other public funds out of which such expenses or any part thereof had theretofore been payable or which had theretofore been applicable in or towards the discharge of such expenses or any part thereof as aforesaid, and to declare that such expenses shall thereafter be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas:

AND WHEREAS under section 49 of the Irish Land Act, 1909, an annual sum of £19,000 (nineteen thousand pounds) was at the date of the commencement of the said Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland for the purpose of the exercise of the powers and performance of the duties transferred to that Department by the said Irish Land Act, 1909:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for the winding-up of the fund comprising the said annual sum of £19,000 as on the 31st day of March, 1925:

NOW the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 10 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Winding-Up of a Fund for Congested Districts) Order, 1925. (No. 21 of 1925).

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), shall apply to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The fund comprising the said annual sum of £19,000 (nineteen thousand pounds) payable under section 49 of the Irish Land Act, 1909, to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas shall be wound up as on and from the 31st day of March, 1925, and any balance standing to the credit of that fund on that day shall be paid into or disposed for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance may appoint.

4. From and after the end of the financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1925, the said annual sum of £19,000 shall cease to be granted by the Oireachtas and the total amount to be granted annually by the Oireachtas under the said section 49 of the Irish Land Act, 1909, shall be reduced accordingly.

5. The expenses of the public services of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland which have heretofore been payable out of the said annual sum of £19,000 shall from and after the 31st day of March, 1925, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

DUBLIN.

Dated this 26th day of March, 1925.