LegalizeAppropriation (No. 2) Act 1927
1 Issue of £15,427,414 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 twenty-eight the sum of fifteen million, four hundred and twenty-seven thousand, four hundred and fourteen pounds.
2 Power for 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 on the credit of the said sum any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole fifteen million, four hundred and twenty-seven thousand, four hundred and fourteen 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.
3 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.
3.—All sums granted by this Act out of the Central Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting, as appears by Schedule (A) annexed to this Act, in the aggregate to the sum of fifteen million, four hundred and twenty-seven thousand, four hundred and fourteen pounds are appropriated 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.
4 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 a misdemeanour.
5 Short title.
5.—This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation (No. 2) Act, 1927.
ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULES (A) AND (B) TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS SCHEDULE (A).
| Grants out of the Central Fund | £15,427,414 |
|---|---|
SCHEDULE (B).
| Sums not Exceeding | ||
|---|---|---|
| Supply Grants | Appropriations-in-Aid | |
| £ | £ | |
| 1927-28 | 15,427,414 | 762,044 |
SCHEDULE (A).
| For the Service of the Year ending on the 31st March, 1928:— | |
|---|---|
| £ | |
| Under this Act | 15,427,414 |
SCHEDULE (B).
Schedule of Sums granted and of Sums which may be applied as Appropriations-in-Aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1928:—
| 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 under the Governor-General's Salary and Establishment Act, 1923 | 4,303 | — |
| 2 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oireachtas | 77,326 | — |
| 3 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the President of the Executive Council | 7,714 | — |
| 4 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Comptroller and Auditor General | 12,635 | — |
| 5 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office | 41,358 | — |
| 6 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Revenue Department | 466,000 | 9,350 |
| 7 | For payment of Old Age Pensions under the Old Age Pension Acts, 1908 to 1924, for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith, and for Pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920 | 1,758,300 | 270 |
| 8 | For Capital for the Local Loans Fund and to make repayment to the British Government in respect of Local Loans outstanding | 456,000 | — |
| 9 | For the Salaries and other Expenses of Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Special Enquiries | 8,302 | — |
| 10 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, ss. 5 & 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, ss. 1 & 2; 9 & 10 Vict., c. 86, ss. 2,7 & 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.) | 82,465 | 4,300 |
| 11 | For expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; for Execution and Maintenance of Drainage Works; and sundry Grants-in-Aid | 586,041 | 135,800 |
| 12 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory | 4,567 | — |
| 13 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (Civil Service Regulation Acts 1924 and 1926) and the Local Appointments Commission (Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926) | 7,186 | — |
| 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 | 652,680 | — |
| 15 | For certain payments of Compensation in respect of Personal Injuries or Death | 3,177 | — |
| 16 | For Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate and Additional Allowances and Gratuities 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 | 1,190,435 | — |
| 17 | For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, etc., in respect of Government Property | 55,450 | 268 |
| 18 | For Secret Services | 6,700 | — |
| 19 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Tariff Commission (Tariff Commission Act, 1926) | 1,100 | — |
| 20 | For Expenses under the Representation of the People Act, 1918, the Electoral Act, 1923, and the Juries (Amendment) Act, 1924 | 20,000 | — |
| 21 | For certain Miscellaneous Expenses including certain Grants-in-Aid | 5,618 | — |
| 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 | 87,289 | 24,125 |
| 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; 19 of 1923 (Saorstát Eireann); and the Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925; including Estate Duty Valuation under the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 | 23,852 | 3,545 |
| 24 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services connected therewith | 32,734 | 1,850 |
| 25 | For the increase of the Agricultural Grant (Local Government (Rates on Agricultural Land) Act, 1925) | 299,011 | — |
| 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 | 45,388 | 800 |
| 27 | For Expenses in connection with Haulbowline Dockyard | 11,300 | — |
| 28 | For Grants-in-Aid of the Expenses of University Institutions, including Grants under the Irish Universities Act, 1908, and the Land Act, 1923, and the University Education (Agricultural and Dairy Science) Act, 1926 | 76,500 | — |
| 29 | For Payment of Subsidy in respect of Beet Sugar (No. 37 of 1925) | 198,000 | — |
| 30 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Quit Rent Office | 2,784 | — |
| 31 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice | 20,486 | — |
| 32 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gárda Síochána (The Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925) | 1,009,865 | 40,590 |
| 33 | For the Expenses of the General Prisons Board and of the Establishments under their control, the Registration of Habitual Criminals 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) | 86,667 | 3,000 |
| 34 | For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund or on the District Court Clerks Fund (The Courts of Justice Act, 1924, Secs. 70 & 76; Court Officers Act, 1926, Sec. 49) | 9,838 | — |
| 35 | For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Supreme Court and High Court of Saorstát Eireann as are not charged on the Central Fund (Court Officers Act, 1926); and to defray the Salaries and Expenses of Circuit Court Appeals Commissioners | 38,574 | 3,710 |
| 36 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Land Registry and of the Registry of Deeds | 34,930 | — |
| 37 | For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses of various Circuit Court Officers, Bonus to Clerks of the Crown and Peace and the Expenses of Revision | 46,926 | 16,335 |
| 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). | 3,994 | — |
| 39 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests, (7 & 8 Vict., c. 97, ss. 7 & 8; 30 & 31 Vict., c. 54, s. 24; and 34 & 35 Vict., c. 102). | 2,218 | 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 | 324,543 | 11,360 |
| 41 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Registrar General of Births, &c. (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). | 9,178 | 5,400 |
| 42 | For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum | 8,022 | 2,481 |
| 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 1925 (including certain Grants-in-Aid). | 215,187 | 1,600 |
| 44 | For Charges connected with Hospitals and Infirmaries including sundry Grants-in-Aid | 1,228 | — |
| 45 | For the Expenses of the Department of Education in respect of costs of Administration, Inspection, &c. | 117,283 | 255 |
| 46 | For the Expenses of Primary Education, including Grants-in-Aid of the Teachers' Pension Fund | 2,315,852 | 800 |
| 47 | For Secondary Education, including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant and Increments of Salary to Secondary School Teachers | 182,600 | 27,600 |
| 48 | For the Expenses connected with Technical Instruction | 111,946 | 42,970 |
| 49 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art in Dublin and of the Geological Survey of Ireland, including sundry Grants-in-Aid administered by the Department of Education | 27,713 | 205 |
| 50 | For Expenses of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (Children Act, 1908) | 77,662 | 2,200 |
| 51 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery of Ireland | 2,986 | — |
| 52 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of Agriculture and of certain Services administered by that Department including sundry Grants-in-Aid | 371,150 | 106,868 |
| 53 | For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry | 39,040 | 2,500 |
| 54 | 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; the Land Law (Commission) Act, 1923, the Land Act, 1923, and the Land Bond Act, 1925) | 435,078 | 60,690 |
| 55 | For Advances to Agricultural Credit Societies and for defraying Expenses incidental thereto | 56,000 | — |
| 56 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce | 83,009 | 1,225 |
| 57 | For Payments under the Railways Act, 1924, the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883, &c., and for other purposes connected with Irish Transport | 35,258 | 23,602 |
| 58 | For the Salaries and other expenses of the Railway Tribunal constituted under the Railways Act, 1924 | 5,102 | — |
| 59 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service (Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894-1921, Crown Lands Acts, 1829-1866) | 4,142 | 2,912 |
| 60 | For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance and Employment Exchanges, including contributions to the Unemployment Fund | 155,526 | 71,100 |
| 61 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Fisheries | 35,306 | 30,525 |
| 62 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, including Telephones | 1,669,915 | 64,720 |
| 63 | For the Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting | 21,795 | — |
| 64 | For the cost of the Army, including Army Reserve | 1,458,767 | 59,040 |
| 65 | For Wound Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities under the Army Pensions Act, 1923, and for sundry Contributions in respect of the Administration thereof, and for Pensions under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924 | 145,160 | — |
| 66 | For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of External Affairs | 29,813 | — |
| 67 | For a Grant-in-Aid of the Expenses of the League of Nations, and for other Expenses in connection therewith | 4,534 | — |
| 68 | For Remuneration for Cost of Management of Government Stocks of Saorstát Eireann | 5,906 | — |
| Total | 15,427,414 | 762,044 |
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