Executive Powers (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937

Repeal of the Governor-General's Salary and Establishment Act, 1923.

4.—(1) The Governor-General's Salary and Establishment Act, 1923 (No. 14 of 1923), is hereby repealed as on and from the date of the passing of the Principal Act and shall be deemed for all purposes to have ceased on that date to have effect.

(2) As soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, there shall be paid, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to Donal Buckley, being the person who held the office of Governor-General immediately before the passing of the Principal Act, the following sums in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims by him under the Governor-General's Salary and Establishment Act, 1923 (No. 14 of 1923), in respect of any period before or after or partly before and partly after the passing of the Principal Act, that is to say:—

(a) the sum of two thousand pounds, and

(b) such sum as shall be necessary to recoup to the said Donal Buckley all disbursements which were, in the opinion of the Minister for Finance, necessarily or properly made by him in relation to the maintenance of his official residence and the household staff thereof after the passing of the Principal Act or in relation to the closing of such residence and the discharge of such staff.

(3) The yearly sum of five hundred pounds beginning on the date of the passing of the Principal Act shall be charged upon and payable quarterly out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof to the said Donal Buckley during his life.

(4) It shall be lawful for the Minister for Finance to defray, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, such expenses incurred after the passing of the Principal Act in relation to the establishment of the Governor-General as, in the opinion of the said Minister, were necessarily or properly so incurred and are properly payable out of public moneys.

(5) Every payment made after the passing of the Principal Act and before the passing of this Act which would have been a lawful payment by virtue of this section, if this section had then been in force, shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made under this section and shall be and be deemed always to have been lawful accordingly.