Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1856

PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) ACT 1856

CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act to authorize for a further Period the Application of Money for the Purposes of Loans for carrying on Public Works in Ireland. [29th April 1856.]

[Preamble recites 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33; 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 108; 7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 21; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 50; 6 & 7 Vict. c. 44; 9 & 10 Vict. c. 1, and other Acts now repealed.]

[Ss. 1–6 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]

Bank of Ireland to continue account with Paymaster of Civil Services of repayments.

7. The Bank of Ireland shall continue the account already opened in their books with the Paymaster of the Civil Services of Ireland, under the title of “the Paymaster of the Civil Services on account of the repayment of loans for public works,” and monies which shall from time to time be repaid in respect of loans made under this Act, or in respect of the interest thereof, shall be carried to the credit of the same account.

Appropriation and entry of repayments.

8. As soon as any sum of money shall have been so lodged to the credit of the said account of the Paymaster of Civil Services on account of the repayment of loans for public works, the said Commissioners of Public Works shall, upon a notification thereof, cause to be made out and delivered to the said Paymaster of Civil Services a statement of the proper appropriation of such payment, whether for account of interest or principal, or how much for each respectively, upon which the said Paymaster of Civil Services shall cause to be prepared accordingly the proper receipt or voucher, and send the same to the said Commissioners of Public Works, who shall thereupon cause the sum or sums therein mentioned to be entered on the books of the said Commissioners to the credit of the loan on account of which such payment shall have been made; and such receipt when so entered shall be delivered to the party or person on whose account such payment shall have been so made, and such receipt shall be a sufficient discharge to the party or person paying the same.

[Ss. 9, 10 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]

Construction with recited Acts.

11. All the enactments contained in the said recited Acts relating to public works in Ireland, or any of them, shall, except as is herein otherwise provided, extend to this Act, and to all things done or directed to be done by the Treasury, or the said Commissioners of Public Works, or their secretary for the time being, or any other persons or bodies corporate, under the authority of the said recited Acts or this Act, or any of them, in such or the like manner as if they had been particularly and severally re-enacted in the body of this Act, or as near thereto as the difference of the circumstances will admit, except so far only as the same are amended or altered by any of the said Acts, or by this Act.