Appropriation Act, 1987

Amendment of Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act, 1965.

3.—(1) The Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act, 1965 , is hereby amended by—

(a) the substitution in section 2 for “Central Fund in the year” of “Central Fund”, and

(b) the substitution in section 4 for “Central Fund in the year for which the supply is granted” of “Central Fund”,

and the said sections, as so amended, are set out in the Table to this subsection.

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2. As from the commencement of the financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1967, and of every subsequent financial year, the Minister, as respects any supply service for which a sum was appropriated in respect of the immediately preceding financial year in the Appropriation Act of that year, shall, provided that during the year he asks Dáil Éireann to grant supply for that service in respect of the year, be authorised to issue out of the Central Fund, and apply towards making good such supply, sums not exceeding in the aggregate four-fifths of the sum so appropriated, subject, as regards any particular issue and application, to his considering it to be necessary.

4. Where, in the financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1967, or any subsequent financial year supply is granted by Dáil Éireann—]

(a) for a supply service for the year, being a service for which a sum was not appropriated in the Appropriation Act of the immediately preceding financial year, or

(b) for a supply service of the next following financial year,

the Minister may issue out of the Central Fund and apply towards making good the supply, sums not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of the grant.

(2) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 21st day of December, 1965.