Appropriation Act, 1929

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Number 29 of 1929.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1929.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Issue of £196 out of the Central Fund.

2.

Issue of £13,624,468 out of the Central Fund.

3.

Power for the Minister for Finance to borrow.

4.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.

5.

Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated.

6.

Short title.

ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULES (A) AND (B) TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.

SCHEDULE (A).

SCHEDULE (B).

Acts Referred to

Salaries and Expenses of the Governor-General's Establishment

No. 14 of 1923

Comptroller and Auditor-General

No. 1 of 1923

Tariff Commission

No. 40 of 1926

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Number 29 of 1929.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1929.


AN ACT TO APPLY CERTAIN SUMS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEARS ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT AND ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY, AND TO APPROPRIATE THE SUPPLIES GRANTED IN THIS SESSION OF THE OIREACHTAS. [24th July, 1929.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:

GRANTS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND.

Issue of £196 out of the Central Fund.

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 ended on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, the sum of one hundred and ninety-six pounds.

Issue of £13,624,468 out of the Central Fund.

2.—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 thirty the sum of thirteen million, six hundred and twenty-four thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight pounds.

Power for the Minister for Finance to borrow.

3.—(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 thirteen million, six hundred and twenty-four thousand, six hundred and sixty-four 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.

4.—All sums granted by this Act and the other Act mentioned in Schedule (A) annexed to this Act out of the Central Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting, as appears by the said Schedule, in the aggregate to the sum of twenty-one millions, seven hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and sixty-six 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) annexed hereto. The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed thereto, with the notes (if any) to such schedules shall be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

In addition to the sums hereby granted out of the Central Fund 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) annexed hereto, the sums respectively set forth in the last column of the said Schedule.

Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated.

5.—A person shall not receive any part of a grant which may be made in pursuance of this Act for non-effective services until he has subscribed such declaration as may from time to time be prescribed by a warrant of the Minister for Finance before one of the persons prescribed by such warrant:

Provided that whenever any such payment is made at more frequent intervals than once in a quarter the Minister for Finance may dispense with the production of more than one declaration in respect of each quarter.

Any person who makes a declaration for the purpose of this section knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

Short title.

6.—This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Act, 1929.

ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULES (A) AND (B) TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.

Schedule (A).

GRANTS.

Grants out of the Central Fund

£21,724,966

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Sums not exceeding:

Supply Grants

Appropriations in aid

£

£

1927—28 (Excess Vote)

196

1928—29 (Supplementary)

530,177

9,428

1929—30

21,194,593

1,023,001

Schedule (A).

GRANTS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND.

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st March, 1928:—

£

Under this Act

196

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st March, 1929:—

Under Act No. 4 of 1929

530,177

For the Service of the year ending on the 31st March, 1930:—

Under Act No. 4 of 1929

7,570,125

Under this Act

13,624,468

Total

£21,724,966

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Part I.

Excess—1927—1928.

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grant

Appropriation in-Aid

£

£

Sum granted to make good an excess on the Grant for Haulbowline Dockyard for the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1928

196

Part II.

Schedule of Supplementary sums granted and of sums which may be applied as appropriations-in-aid in addition thereto to defray the charges for the several public services herein particularly mentioned for the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1929.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oireachtas

750

7

For the payment of Old Age Pensions under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1928, for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith, and for Pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920

175,000

27

For Expenses in connection with Haulbowline Dockyard

2,500

28

For Grants in Aid of the Expenses of University Institutions, including Grants under the Irish Universities Act, 1908 , the Land Act, 1923 , and the University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926

4,824

40

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, including Grants and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Grants to Local Authorities and Sundry Grants-in-Aid, and the Expenses of the Office of the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums

10

41

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

300

43

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Insurance Commission and for Sundry Contributions and Grants in respect of the Cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1928, including certain Grants-in-Aid

10

46

For the Expenses of Primary Education, including Grants-in-Aid of the Teachers' Pension Fund

13,850

47

For Secondary Education, including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant, and Increments of Salary to Secondary School Teachers

9,500

51

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery

112

52

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

303,487

9,428

57

For payments under the Railways Act, 1924 , the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883 , etc., and for other purposes connected with Irish transport

2,500

65

For Wound and Disability Pensions' Allowances and Gratuities under the Army Pensions Acts, 1923 and 1927, and for Sundry Contributions in respect of the Administration thereof, and for Pensions under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924

10

69

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office (No. 16 of 1927)

600

72

For Expenses connected with the Purchase of Fuel during the Coal Emergency, 1926

10,748

73

For the Repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances

5,976

Total

530,177

9,428

PART III.

Schedule of sums granted and of 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, 1930.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

1

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Governor-General's Establishment (No. 14 of 1923)

6,060

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oireachtas

121,052

3

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the President of the Executive Council

11,973

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

17,242

5

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

61,239

6

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

660,300

14,900

7

For the payment of Old Age Pensions under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1928, for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith, and for Pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920

2,727,000

400

8

For Capital for the Local Loans Fund, and to make repayment to the British Government in respect of local loans outstanding

935,000

9

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

10,788

10

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, ss. 5 and 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, ss. 1 and 2; 9 & 10 Vict., c. 86, ss. 2, 7 and 9; 10 Vict., c. 32, s. 3; 33 & 34 Vict., c. 46, s. 42; 40 & 41 Vict., c. 27; 44 & 45 Vict., c. 49, s. 31; &c.)

101,700

11,900

11

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

581,881

152,675

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

6,971

13

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

12,283

14

For payments in respect of destruction of, or injuries to, Property within the period 21st January, 1919, to 12th May, 1923, inclusive, under the Damage to Property (Compensation) Acts, 1923 to 1926, and otherwise; and in respect of damage to or loss of property and payments by way of indemnification or recoupment under the Indemnity Act, 1924 ; and for payment of grants awarded on the recommendation of the Property Losses (Ireland) Committee, 1916, as compensation for buildings destroyed in Dublin during Easter Week, 1916

272,700

15

For certain payments of Compensation in respect of Personal Injuries or Death

3,900

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate and Additional Allowances and Gratuities, etc., under sundry Statutes; Compensation under Article 10 of the Treaty of the 6th December, 1921; Compassionate Allowances, Gratuities and Supplementary Pensions awarded by the Minister for Finance; the Salary of the Medical Referee; and sundry Repayments in respect of Pensions at present paid by the British Government

1,777,400

17

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

85,210

2,790

18

For Secret Services

10,000

19

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Tariff Commission (No. 40 of 1926)

1,744

20

For Expenses under the Electoral Act, 1923 , and the Juries Act, 1927

19,000

21

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses including certain Grants-in-Aid

8,720

22

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

115,995

38,545

23

For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey, under the Acts 15 & 16 Vict., c. 63; 17 Vict., c. 8; 17 Vict., 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 and the Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925; including Estate Duty Valuation under the Finance (1909—10) Act, 1910

34,156

6,695

24

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services connected therewith

44,604

2,650

25

For the increase of the Agricultural Grant (No. 35 of 1925)

599,011

26

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

63,134

1,200

27

For Expenses in connection with Haulbowline Dockyard

12,100

28

For Contributions towards and Grants-in-Aid of the Expenses of University Institutions, including Grants under the Irish Universities Act, 1908 , the Land Act, 1923 , and the University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926

153,990

29

For Payment of Subsidy in respect of Beet Sugar (No. 37 of 1925)

108,334

30

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Quit Rent Office

4,080

31

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice

38,869

32

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gárda Síochána (No. 7 of 1925)

1,559,308

36,750

33

For the Expenses of Prisons and Borstal Institutions; and the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics confined in District Mental Hospitals (17 & 18 Vict., c. 76; 34 & 35 Vict., c. 112, s. 6; 40 & 41 Vict., c. 49; 47 & 48 Vict., c. 36; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 60; 1 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 3; 8 Edw. 7, c. 50; and 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58)

99,562

19,800

34

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 10 of 1924, secs. 70 & 76; No. 27 of 1926, secs. 49 & 50, and No. 15 of 1928, sec. 13)

39,822

35

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Supreme Court and High Court of Justice as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 27 of 1926)

54,256

3,710

36

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Land Registry and of the Registry of Deeds

49,101

37

For the Salaries Allowances and Expenses of Circuit Court Officers and certain Local Registering Authorities; and the Expenses of Revision of Voters and Jurors Lists (54 & 55 Vict. c. 66, sec. 7; No. 10 of 1924, sec. 45; No. 27 of 1926, sec. 66; and No. 15 of 1928, sec. 9)

59,035

14,060

38

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record Office and of the Keeper of State Papers, Dublin (30 & 31 Vict., c. 70; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 59; and 39 & 40 Vict., c. 58)

5,433

39

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office (7& 8 Vict., c. 97, ss. 7 & 8; 30 & 31 Vict., c. 54, s. 24; and 34 & 35 Vict., c. 102)

3,164

48

40

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, including Grants and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Grants to Local Authorities and Sundry Grants-in-Aid, and the Expenses of the Office of the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums

462,556

14,549

41

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

10,376

9,000

42

For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum

13,704

3,904

43

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Insurance Commission and for Sundry Contributions and Grants in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1928 (including certain Grants-in-Aid)

331,928

1,540

44

For Charges connected with Hospitals and Infirmaries (including Sundry Grants-in-Aid)

13,298

45

For the Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education (including the cost of Administration, Inspection, etc.)

165,629

65

46

For the Expenses of Primary Education including Grants-in-Aid of the Teachers' Pension Fund

3,610,793

6,100

47

For Secondary Education including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant and Incremental Salary to Secondary School Teachers

300,800

36,500

48

For the Expenses connected with Technical Instruction

141,217

43,522

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art in Dublin including Sundry Grants-in-Aid

32,859

570

50

For Expenses of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7, c. 67; No. 17 of 1926)

117,106

4,200

51

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery

4,149

52

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

408,474

151,410

53

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry

56,803

3,250

54

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Lands and Fisheries, and of certain Services administered by that Office

42,897

34,690

55

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Irish Land Commission (44 & 45 Vict., c. 49, s. 46 and c. 71, s. 4; 48 & 49 Vict., c. 73, ss. 17, 18 and 20; 53 & 54 Vict., c. 49, s. 2; 54 & 55 Vict. c. 48; 3 Edw. 7, c. 37; 7 Edw. 7, c. 38 and c. 56; 9 Edw. 7, c. 42; Nos. 27 and 42 of 1923, 25 of 1925, 11 of 1926 and 19 of 1927)

515,366

130,150

56

For Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including the Rates Advisory Committee

105,300

4,710

57

For Payments under the Railways Act, 1924 , the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883 , etc., and for other purposes connected with Irish Transport

47,176

28,102

58

For the Salaries and other Expenses of the Railway Tribunal constituted under the Railways Act, 1924

7,190

59

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service (Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894—1921, Crown Lands Acts, 1829—1866)

6,712

4,647

60

For the Salaries and Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance and Employment Exchanges, including contributions to the Unemployment Fund

220,499

114,689

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office (No. 16 of 1927)

19,151

62

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, and of certain other Services administered by that Office, including Telephones

2,233,435

86,540

63

For the Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting

26,510

64

For the cost of the Army, including Army Reserve

1,442,521

38,740

65

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities under the Army Pensions Acts, 1923 and 1927, and for Sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect of the Administration thereof and for Pensions under the Military Pensions Act, 1924

253,473

66

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for External Affairs, and of certain Services administered by that Office

61,039

67

For a Grant-in-Aid of the Expenses of the League of Nations, and for other Expenses in connection therewith

8,165

68

For Remuneration for Cost of Management of Government Stocks of Saorstát Eireann

8,950

69

For Advances to the Compensation Funds established under the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927 (No. 15 of 1927)

50,400

Total

21,194,593

1,023,001