S.I. No. 23/1924 - Judicial Savings (Apportionment of Grant) Order, 1924


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1924. No. 23.

JUDICIAL SAVINGS (APPORTIONMENT OF GRANT) ORDER, 1924.

WHEREAS by Section 9 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) it is enacted that wherever under any British Statute any grant whether annual or capital is directed to be made by the Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund or by the Treasury or any other Government Department out of any other fund, and the amount of such grant is by such Statute or otherwise fixed either for the whole of the late United Kingdom or for any part thereof which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister for Finance may by order apportion such amount between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which such amount is fixed as aforesaid and may by such order fix the amount of such grant to be made under such Statute in Saorstát Eireann :

AND WHEREAS by paragraph (d) of Section 15 of the British Statute entitled the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, it is enacted that there should be placed at the disposal of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (in this Order called " the Department ") for the purposes of Part II. of that Statute an annual sum of twelve thousand pounds to be paid out of money provided by Parliament, as an equivalent for the salaries attached to the judgeships abolished or left vacant, and the savings effected by the abolition or consolidation of offices, in pursuance of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) (No. 2) Act, 1897 :

AND WHEREAS the said sum of twelve thousand pounds was fixed by the British Statute aforesaid for the whole of Ireland, being a part of the late United Kingdom, which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann, and it is necessary that such sum should be apportioned between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which the said sum was fixed as aforesaid and that the annual sum to be placed at the disposal of the Department under the said paragraph (d) of Section 15 of the Statute aforesaid in Saorstát Eireann should be fixed :

NOW, I, Earnán de Blaghd, Minister for Finance in Saorstát Eireann, in exercise and by virtue of the power in this behalf vested in the Minister for Finance by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. The annual sum of £12,000 (twelve thousand pounds) fixed by paragraph (d) of Section 15 of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, as the sum to be placed at the disposal of the Department for the purposes of Part II. of that Act and to be paid out of moneys to be provided by Parliament as an equivalent for the salaries attached to the judgeships abolished or left vacant, and the savings effected by the abolition or consolidation of offices, in pursuance of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) (No. 2) Act, 1897, is hereby apportioned between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which the said sum was fixed by the said Act as follows, that is to say :—

(a) in respect of Saorstát Eireann, the sum of £9,600 (nine thousand six hundred pounds), and

(b) in respect of the rest of the area aforesaid, the sum of £2,400 (two thousand four hundred pounds).

2. The annual sum to be placed in Saorstát Eireann at the disposal of the Department under the said paragraph (d) of Section 15 of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1889, in lieu of the said annual sum of £12,000 (twelve thousand pounds) shall be the sum of £9,600 (nine thousand six hundred pounds).

3. In this Order the expression " Saorstát Eireann " means the area for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Parliament and Government of Saorstát Eireann.

4. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

5. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the Judicial Savings (Apportionment of Grant) Order, 1924.

Dated this 29th day of August, 1924.

(Sgd.) EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

Minister for Finance.