Appropriation (No. 2) Act, 1943

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Number 23 of 1943.


APPROPRIATION (No. 2) ACT, 1943.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Grants out of the Central Fund.

Section

1.

Issue of £9,183,680 out of the Central Fund for the year 1943-44.

2.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £9,183,680.

Appropriation of Grants.

3.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £17,606,680, and application of appropriations-in-aid, viz., £548,103.

4.

Short title.

Schedule (A).

Schedule (B).


Acts Referred to

Central Fund (No. 2) Act, 1943

No. 22 of 1943

Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939

No. 21 of 1939

Electoral Act, 1923

No. 12 of 1923

Juries Act, 1927

No. 23 of 1927

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Number 23 of 1943.


APPROPRIATION (No. 2) ACT, 1943.


AN ACT TO APPLY A FURTHER SUM OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR AND TO APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPER SUPPLY SERVICES AND PURPOSES THE SUMS GRANTED BY THE CENTRAL FUND (No. 2) ACT, 1943 , AND THIS ACT. [2nd December, 1943.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Grants out of the Central Fund.

Issue of £9,183,680 out of the Central Fund for the year 1943-44.

1.—The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Central Fund and apply towards making good the supply granted for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, the sum of nine million, one hundred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and eighty pounds.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £9,183,680.

2.—(1) The Minister for Finance may borrow from any person and the Bank of Ireland may advance to the Minister for Finance any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole nine million, one hundred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and eighty pounds, and for the purpose of such borrowing the Minister for Finance may create and issue any securities bearing such rate of interest and subject to such conditions as to repayment, redemption or otherwise as he thinks fit.

(2) The principal and interest of any securities issued under this Act and the expenses incurred in connection with the issue of such securities shall be charged on the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) Any moneys raised by securities issued under this Act shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer and shall form part of the Central Fund and be available in any manner in which such Fund is available.

Appropriation of Grants.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £17,606,680, and application of appropriations-in-aid, viz., £548,103.

3.—(1) All sums granted by this Act and the Central Fund (No. 2) Act, 1943 (No. 22 of 1943), out of the Central Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting, as appears by Schedule (A) to this Act, in the aggregate to the sum of seventeen million, six hundred and six thousand, six hundred and eighty pounds, are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule (A) for the services and purposes expressed in Schedule (B) to this Act. The Schedules to this Act shall be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

(2) In addition to the grants out of the Central Fund referred to in the foregoing sub-section of this section, there may be applied out of any money directed under section 2 of the Public Accounts and Charges Act, 1891 , to be applied as appropriations-in-aid of the grants for the services and purposes specified in Schedule (B) to this Act, the sums respectively set forth in the last column of the said Schedule amounting, as appears thereby, in the aggregate to the sum of five hundred and forty-eight thousand, one hundred and three pounds.

Short title.

4.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (No. 2) Act, 1943.

Schedule (A)

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£

For the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1944:

Under the Central Fund (No. 2) Act, 1943 (No. 22 of 1943)

8,423,000

Under this Act

9,183,680

Total

£

17,606,680

Schedule (B)

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Schedule of further sums granted, and of further sums which may be applied as Appropriations-in-Aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1944.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

1

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Secretary to the President, and for certain other Expenses of the President's Establishment (No. 24 of 1938)

2,519

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid

84,143

3

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach (No. 16 of 1924; No. 40 of 1937; and No. 38 of 1938)

10,331

4

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (No. 1 of 1923), including the National Insurance Audit Office

13,668

1,167

5

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office

52,437

6

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office

639,600

25,110

7

For Old Age Pensions (8 Edw. 7, c. 40; 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 16; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 102; No. 19 of 1924; No. 1 of 1928; No. 18 of 1932; and No. 26 of 1938); for Pensions to Blind Persons (No. 18 of 1932 and No. 26 of 1938); and for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith

2,530,250

1,333

8

For Bounties on sugar made from homegrown beet on which drawback is paid, tobacco manufactured from home-grown leaf on which drawback is paid, and tobacco grown in Éire after 1st January, 1934, allocated to a manufacturer and subsequently destroyed as unfit for manufacture

350

9

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, secs. 5 and 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, secs. 1 and 2; 9 & 10 Vict., c. 86, secs. 2, 7 and 9; etc.)

96,042

5,467

10

For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; and for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage Works

670,365

27,200

11

For Expenses in connection with Haulbowline Dockyard

2,175

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

6,698

13

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (No. 5 of 1924 and No. 41 of 1926) and of the Local Appointments Commission (No. 39 of 1926 and No. 15 of 1940)

16,224

15

For the Salaries and other Expenses of Commissions, Committees and Special Inquiries

4,701

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation, and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under sundry Statutes (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 24; 22 Vict., c. 26; 50 & 51 Vict., c. 67; 55 & 56 Vict., c. 40; 6 Edw. 7, c. 58; 9 Edw. 7, c 10; 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 86; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 67 and £68; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 36; No. 1 of 1922; No. 34 of 1923; No. 7 of 1925 No. 27 of 1926; No. 11 and No. 36 of 1929; No. 32 of 1933; No. 9 of 1934; No. 39 of 1936; No. 29 of 1938; No. 16 and No. 21 of 1939; No. 24 of 1942; etc.); Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; fees to Medical Referees and occasional fees to Doctors; etc.

353,430

12,833

17

For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, &c., in respect of Government Property, and for Contributions towards Rates on Premises occupied by Representatives of External Governments

103,015

407

18

For Secret Service

13,300

19

For Expenses under the Electoral Act, 1923 , and the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 12 of 1923 and No. 23 of 1927)

17,000

20

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid and payments of Compensation for Death or Personal Injuries

7,170

21

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service; and for sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates

100,269

21,558

22

For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey (15 & 16 Vict., c. 63; 17 Vict., c. 8 and c. 17; 20 & 21 Vict., c. 45; 22 & 23 Vict., c. 8; 23 Vict., c. 4; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 52; 37 & 38 Vict., c. 70; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 37; No. 19 of 1923; No. 3 of 1927; No. 27 of 1930; Nos. 27, 47 and 55 of 1931; No. 19 of 1932; No. 28 of 1937; No. 21 of 1939; and No. 8 of 1940; Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925); including Estate Duty Valuation (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), etc

23,075

4,463

23

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts

17,833

903

24

For the increase of the Grant to Local Authorities in Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land (No. 35 of 1925, No. 28 of 1931 and No. 23 of 1939)

820,989

25

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Attorney-General, etc., and for the Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges, including a Grant in Relief of certain Expenses payable by Statute out of Local Rates

44,938

1,333

26

For Grants to Universities and Colleges (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; No. 35 of 1929; and No. 27 of 1934), including certain Grants-in-Aid

84,430

27

For payment to the Pensions Investment Account [Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 et seq.]

300,000

28

For the Emergency Scientific Research Bureau, including a Grant-in-Aid

21,850

29

For Remuneration for the Management of Government Stocks

140

30

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, and of certain Services administered by that Office, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

902,844

153,539

31

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

9,952

16,407

41

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Grants to Local Authorities, sundry Miscellaneous Grants and Grants-in-Aid, and certain charges connected with Hospitals

1,046,460

12,306

42

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Registrar-General of Births, &c. (7 & 8 Vict., c. 81, sec. 54; 26 Vict., c. 11, sec. 9, and c. 27; 26 & 27 Vict., c. 52, sec. 11, and c. 90, sec. 20; 42 & 43 Vict., c. 70; and 43 & 44 Vict., c. 13)

9,056

3,000

43

For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107)

11,095

662

44

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with the Administration of the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1942, and the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1940; for certain Services in connection with Food Allowances (Emergency Powers Act, 1939) and for sundry Contributions and Grants, including certain Grants-in-Aid in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the National Health Insurance Acts

227,687

41,217

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (45 and 46 Vict., c. 74; 8 Edw. 7, c. 48; 1 and 2 Geo. 5, c. 26; The Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928; No. 14 of 1940 (secs. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (sec. 23), etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office

1,775,210

94,623

62

For Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting (No. 45 of 1926)

52,580

63

For the Army and the Army Reserve (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, and for certain administrative Expenses in connection therewith; for the Expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures; for Expenses in connection with the trial and detention of certain persons (No. 28 of 1939, No. 1 of 1940 and No. 16 of 1940, etc.); for certain Expenses under the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 and 1940 (No. 13 of 1939 and No. 2 of 1940) and the Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939 (No. 21 of 1939); for Reserve Medical Supplies for Civilian Hospitals; for certain Expenses of the Local Defence Force (including Grants-in-Aid) (No. 28 of 1939); for certain Expenses in connection with the special Commemoration of the 1916 Rising; for certain Expenses in connection with the National Blood Transfusion Council; and for a Grant to the Irish Red Cross Society.

5,672,654

124,580

64

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923, No. 12 of 1927, No. 24 of 1932, No. 15 of 1937 and No. 2 of 1941), Military Service Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 48 of 1924, No. 26 of 1932, No. 43 of 1934 and No. 33 of 1938), Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936); Payments in respect of Compensation for Members of the Local Defence Force (No. 28 of 1939); and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, etc.

414,022

65

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for External Affairs, and of certain Services administered by that Office (No. 16 of 1924)

63,000

66

For a Contribution towards the Expenses of the League of Nations

8,058

67

For Employment and Emergency Schemes (including Relief of Distress)

850,000

68

For Agricultural Produce Subsidies, etc.

467,000

72

For Compensation and other Payments in connection with Injuries to Property caused by the dropping of bombs from foreign aircraft and kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war (No. 24 of 1941)

55,250

73

For Compensation and other Payments in respect of Personal Injuries sustained by persons, not as members of State Services, as a result of the dropping of bombs by foreign aircraft and kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war

4,870

Total

£

17,606,680

548,103