Appropriation Act, 1933

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Number 20 of 1933.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1933.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Issue of £17,750,847 out of the Central Fund.

2.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow.

3.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.

4.

Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated.

5.

Short title.

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

SCHEDULE (A).

SCHEDULE (B).


Act Referred to

Railways Act, 1924

No. 29 of 1924

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Number 20 of 1933.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1933.


AN ACT TO APPLY CERTAIN SUMS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR AND TO APPROPRIATE THE SUPPLIES GRANTED IN THIS SESSION OF THE OIREACHTAS. [28th July, 1933.]

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

GRANTS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND.

Issue of £17,750,847 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 ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, the sum of seventeen million, seven hundred and fifty thousand, eight hundred and forty-seven pounds.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow.

2.—(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 seventeen million, seven hundred and fifty thousand, eight hundred and forty-seven 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 repayments, 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.

3.—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 eight million, four hundred and thirty thousand, four hundred and nineteen 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 tfre 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.

4.—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 an offence under this section, and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding thirty pounds.

Short title.

5.—This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Act, 1933.

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

Schedule (A).

GRANTS.

Grants out of the Central Fund

£28,430,419

Schedule (B.)

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Sums not exceeding:

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-aid

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

1932–33 (Supplementary)

2,694,112

0

0

16,993

0

0

1933–34

25,736,307

0

0

1,084,682

0

0

Schedule (A.)

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st March, 1933:

£

s.

d.

Under Act No. I of 1933

2,694,112

0

0

For the Service of the year ending on the 31st March, 1934:

Under Act No. I of 1933

7,985,460

0

0

Under this Act

17,750,847

0

0

Total

£28,430,419

0

0

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Part I.

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, 1933.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

6

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

11,370

*—930

7

For the payment of Old Age Pensions (8 Edw. 7, c. 40; 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 16; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 102; No. 19 of 1924; No. 1 of 1928; and No. 18 of 1932); for Pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 49, s. 1); and for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith

250,000

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

10

350

41

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 certain charges connected with Hospitals

10

44

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Insurance Commission and of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in connection with the administration of the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1929, and for sundry Contributions and Grants in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the said Acts (including certain Grants-in-Aid)

10

8

46

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

4,250

*—500

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art and sundry Grants-in-Aid, etc.

10

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

98,000

54

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Lands and Fisheries and of certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants in connection with Housing and sundry Grants-in-Aid

8,000

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; 19 of 1927; 31 of 1929 and 11 of 1931)

48,635

8,000

56

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including the Rates Advisory Committee and sundry Grants-in-Aid

1,100

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

15,860

60

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

15,125

10,065

65

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923, No. 12 of 1927, and No. 24 of 1932), and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, and to pay Military Service Pensions (No. 48 of 1924), etc.

25,000

66

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

10

67

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

300

69

For Contributions towards the Relief of Unemployment and Distress

350,000

74

For the further Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land

250,000

75

For an Advance to the Guarantee Fund

1,616,000

76

For the Repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances

422

Total

£

2,694,112

16,993

*

Part II.

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, 1934.

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)

2,318

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid

111,721

3

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

10,610

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

16,370

5

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

61,085

6

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

691,580

17,785

7

For the payment of Old Age Pensions (8 Edw. 7, c. 40; 1 and 2 Geo. 5, c. 16; 9 and 10 Geo. 5, c. 102; No. 19 of 1924; No. 1 of 1928, and No. 18 of 1932); for Pensions to blind persons (10 and 11 Geo. 5, c. 49, s. 1, and No. 18 of 1932); and for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith

3,256,850

400

8

For a Grant-in-Aid of the Local Loans Fund

2,150,000

9

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

9,067

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.)

96,533

10,625

11

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

572,696

73,300

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

6,868

13

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

13,762

14

For payments in respect of destruction of or injuries to Property under the Damage to Property (Compensation) Acts, 1923 to 1926, and otherwise

74,100

15

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

2,075

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation, and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under sundry statutes; Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; the salary of the Medical Referee and occasional fees to Doctors; etc. (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 24; 22 Vict., c. 26; 50 & 51 Vict., c. 67; 55 & 56 Vict., c. 40; 6 Edw. 7, c. 58; 9 Edw. 7, c. 10; 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 86; 7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 42; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 67; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 68; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 83; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 36; No. 1 of 1922; No. 34 of 1923; No. 7 of 1925; No. 27 of 1926; No. 11 of 1929; No. 36 of 1929; etc.)

418,605

1,0

17

For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, etc., in respect of Government Property

94,300

2,700

18

For Secret Service

10,000

19

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Tariff Commission (No. 40 of 1926 and No. 31 of 1930), and of the Merchandise Marks Commission (No. 48 of 1931)

4,821

20

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

18,000

21

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid

8,020

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 and a Grant-in-Aid

105,202

25,755

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 No. 3 of 1927; Nos. 27, 47 & 55 of 1931; and No. 19 of 1932; and under the Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925; including Estate Duty Valuation (10 Edw. 7, c. 8)

31,292

6,870

24

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts

35,386

3,672

25

For the increase of the Agricultural Grant (No. 35 of 1925 and No. 28 of 1931)

900,989

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

57,096

900

27

For Expenses in connection with Haulbowline Dockyard

3,830

28

For Grants under the Irish Universities Act, 1908; the Land Act, 1923; the University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926, and the University College, Galway, Act, 1929 (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; and No. 35 of 1929)

155,500

29

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

162,500

30

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Quit Rent Office

4,151

31

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

21,100

32

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

36,664

33

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

1,686,172

11,965

34

For the Expenses of Prisons, the Borstal Institution, 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. 59; and 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58)

76,544

8,300

35

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

38,745

36

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)

51,167

2,860

37

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

47,570

38

For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses of Circuit Court Officers, Deputy Circuit Judges, and certain Local Registering Authorities; and the Expenses of Revision of Voters and Jurors Lists, No. 27 of 1926, etc.

52,489

17,960

39

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. 5

4,760

40

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)

3,401

48

41

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 certain charges connected with Hospitals

814,991

12,805

42

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)

14,057

3,150

43

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

14,168

738

44

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in connection with the Administration of the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1929, and for sundry Contributions and Grants, including certain Grants-in-Aid in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the said Acts

303,092

3,673

45

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

164,408

90

46

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

3,654,946

9,680

47

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

350,927

36,900

48

For the Expenses connected with Technical Instruction and Continuation Education

189,760

32,105

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art and sundry Grants-in-Aid, etc.

42,250

480

50

For Expenses of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7, c. 67; No. 17 of 1926; and No. 24 of 1929)

119,866

2,620

51

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid

3,875

52

For the Salaries amd Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture and of certain Services administered by that Office, including Sundry Grants-in-Aid

415,450

248,365

53

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry, including a Grant-in-Aid for Acquisition of Land (9 and 10 Geo. 5, c. 58; No. 16 of 1924; and No. 34 of 1928)

61,876

4,450

54

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Lands and Fisheries, and of certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants in connection with Housing and sundry Grants-in-Aid

206,555

75,750

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; 19 of 1927; 31 of 1929; and 11 of 1931)

1,246,254

171,930

56

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including the Rates Advisory Committee, and sundry Grants-in-Aid

175,286

4,330

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

35,894

26,704

58

For the Salaries and other Expenses of the Railway Tribunal constituted under the Railways Act, 1924 (No. 29 of 1924)

3,162

59

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

8,281

2,448

60

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

193,091

158,570

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office (No. 16 of 1927, and No. 13 of 1929)

17,129

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

1,994,561

79,524

63

For the Salaries and other expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting

43,530

64

For the cost of the Army (including Army Reserve)

1,253,314

26,230

65

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923; No. 12 of 1927, and No. 24 of 1932), and for Sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, and for Military Service Pensions (No. 48 of 1924), etc.

236,184

66

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

77,681

67

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

16,780

68

For Electrical Battery Research and Development

10,000

69

For Contributions towards the relief of Unemployment and Distress

500,000

70

For the payment of Export Bounties, Subsidies, etc.

2,450,000

71

For the extension of the Beet Sugar Industry

15,000

Total

£

25,736,307

1,084,682

Deficit.