Appropriation Act , 1938

Type Act
Publication 1938-07-27
State In force
Reform history JSON API
1 Issue of £18,275,700 out of the Central Fund for the year 1938-39.

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-nine, the sum of eighteen million, two hundred and seventy-five thousand, seven hundred pounds.

2 Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £18,275,700.

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 eighteen million, two hundred and seventy-five thousand, seven hundred 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.

3 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £29,368,759.

3.—(1) 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-nine million, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty-nine 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 thereto. 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.

(2) In addition to the grants out of the Central Fund referred to in the foregoing sub-section of this section, 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 amounting, as appears thereby, in the aggregate to the sum of two million, three hundred and eighty-two thousand, nine hundred and twenty-nine pounds.

4 Short title.

4.—This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Act, 1938.

Abstract of Schedules (A) and (B) to which this Act Refers. Schedule (A). GRANTS.

Grants out of the Central Fund £29,368,759

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Year Sums not exceeding
Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
£ s. d. £ s. d.
193738 (Supplementary) 463,059 0 0 ^*269,457 0 0
193839 28,905,700 0 0 2,652,386 0 0
Total £29,368,759 0 0 £2,382,929 0 0

^*Deficit.

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£ s. d.
For the Service of the year ended on the 31st March, 1938:
Under Act No. 9 of 1938 463,059 0 0
For the Service of the year ending on the 31st March, 1939:
Under Act No. 9 of 1938 10,630,000 0 0
Under this Act 18,275,700 0 0
Total £29,368,759 0 0

Schedule (B). APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

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, 1938.

Sums not exceeding
Vote No. Title Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
(1) (2) (3) (4)
£ £
2 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid 10
6 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office 10,500 1,500
14 For payments in respect of destruction of or injuries to property (No. 15 of 1923; No. 19 of 1926; No. 35 of 1933; No. 18 of 1937, sec. 17; and otherwise) 10
16 For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation, and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under sundry Statutes (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; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 67 and c. 68; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 36; No. 1 of 1922; No. 34 of 1923; No. 7 of 1925; No. 27 of 1926; No. 11 and No. 36 of 1929; No. 9 of 1934; No. 39 of 1936; etc.); Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance: the Salary of the Medical Referee and occasional fees to Doctors, etc. 24,500
17 For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, etc., in respect of Government Property, and for Contributions towards Rates on Premises occupied by Representatives of External Governments 5,950
21 For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid 2,800
22 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding and Printed Books for the Public Service; and for sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates 5,257 2,435
23 For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey [15 & 16 Vict., c. 63; 17 Vict., c. 8 and 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; No. 3 of 1927; No. 27 of 1930; Nos. 27, 47 and 55 of 1931; and No. 19 of 1932; Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925]; including Estate Duty Valuation (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), etc. 700
28 For Grants to Universities and Colleges (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; No. 35 of 1929; and No. 27 of 1934) 10
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, sec. 6; 40 & 41 Vict., c. 49; 47 & 48 Vict., c. 36; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 60; 1 Edw. 7, c. 17, sec. 3; 8 Edw. 7, c. 59; and 4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 58) 1,504 300
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. 58), and for the purchase of Historical Documents, etc. 63
41 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and of certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Grants to Local Authorities, sundry Miscellaneous Grants and Grants-in-Aid, and certain charges connected with Hospitals 20
43 For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107) 383 ^*—86
49 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art and for certain Miscellaneous Educational Services and sundry Grants-in-Aid 9,500
51 For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid 57
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 139,704 ^*—289,225
53 For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including sundry Grants-in-Aid 10 2,100
55 For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58, and No. 34 of 1928), including a Grant-in-Aid for Acquisition of Land 10
57 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 10
61 For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance and Employment Exchanges (including Contributions to the Unemployment Fund) and Unemployment Assistance (9 Edw. 7, c. 7; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 30; 11 Geo. 5, c. 1; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 15; 12 Geo. 5, c. 7; No. 17 of 1923; Nos. 26 and 59 of 1924; No. 21 of 1926; No. 33 of 1930; Nos. 44 and 46 of 1933; No. 38 of 1935; and No. 2 of 1938) 10 8,904
63 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (45 & 46 Vict., c. 74; 8 Edw. 7, c. 48; 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 26; The Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928; etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office 50,000 4,615
66 For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923, No. 12 of 1927, No. 24 of 1932 and No. 15 of 1937), Military Service Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 48 of 1924, No. 26 of 1932, and No. 43 of 1934), Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936), and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, etc. 10
67 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for External Affairs and of certain services administered by that Office (No. 16 of 1924) 10
69 For Schemes for the Provision of Employment and the Relief of Distress, including cost of administration 10
70 For Export Bounties and Subsidies 10
71 For Expenditure on or in connection with the Repayment of the Dáil Eireann External Loans 9,000
72 For payment to the Pensions Investment Account [Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1937 (No. 29 of 1935, sec. 42 (2), and No. 11 of 1937, sec. 21)] 200,000
74 For an advance for the establishment of an Air Transport Company (No. 40 of 1936) 2,000
75 For the repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances 1,011
Total of Part I£ 463,059 ^*269,457

^*Deficit.

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, 1939.

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