Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925

Adaptation of certain enactments relating to the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

21.—(1) All fines, penalties, duties, fees, and other moneys which immediately before the commencement of this Act are required by virtue of sub-section (4) of section 9 of the Dublin Police Act, 1924 , to be paid to the accounting officer as defined by that Act shall so far as the same continue to be payable after the commencement of this Act be paid to the accounting officer as defined by this section.

(2) The accounting officer as defined by this section shall or may (as the case may require) after the commencement of this Act make every payment which the accounting officer as defined by the Dublin Police Act, 1924 , is by sub-section (5) of section 9 of that Act required, directed, or authorised to make but only if and so far as such payment is not inconsistent with the other provisions of this Act.

(3) From and after the commencement of this Act sub-section (1) of section 10 of the Dublin Police Act, 1924 , shall cease to have effect and section 58 (which relates to the disposal of unclaimed stolen goods) of the Dublin Police Act, 1842, shall continue in force and have effect subject to the modification that references to the receiver of the police district shall be construed as references to the accounting officer as defined by this section.

(4) In this section the expression “the accounting officer as defined by this section” means the public officer to whom the duty of preparing the appropriation account in relation to the amalgamated force is for the time being assigned by the Minister for Finance.