Appropriation Act , 1950

Type Act
Publication 1950-07-26
State In force
Reform history JSON API
1 Issue of £51,615,593 out of the Central Fund for the year, 1950-51.

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 fifty-one, the sum of fifty-one million, six hundred and fifteen thousand, five hundred and ninety-three pounds.

2 Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £51,615,593.

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 fifty-one million, six hundred and fifteen thousand, five hundred and ninety-three 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., £84,938,177.

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 eighty-four million, nine hundred and thirty-eight thousand, one hundred and seventy-seven 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 note (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 subsection 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 three million, four hundred thousand, five hundred and fourteen pounds.

4 Short title.

4.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1950.

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

Grants out of Central Fund £84,938,17700

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Sums not exceeding
Year Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
£ s. d. £ s. d.
194950 (Supplementary) 6,611,924 0 0 *152,460 0 0
195051 78,326,253 0 0 3,552,974 0 0
Total 84,938,177 0 0 3,400,514 0 0

*Deficit.

Schedule (A). GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£ s. d.
For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1950: Under Act No. 8 of 1950 6,611,924 0 0
For the Service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1951:
Under Act No. 8 of 1950 26,710,660 0 0
Under this Act 51,615,593 0 0
Total £84,938,177 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, 1950.

Sums not exceeding
Vote No. Title Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
(1) (2) (3) (4)
£ £
7 For Old Age Pensions and Pensions to Blind Persons (Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1948); for Supplements (No. 22 of 1946); and for certain Grants 198,000
10 For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; and for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage and other Engineering Works 266,700 19,000
14 For a Grant-in-Aid of the Irish Tourist Board (No. 24 of 1939) 4,600
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 5,000
21 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 28,000 1,600
22 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; No. 19 of 1932; No. 28 of 1937; No. 21 of 1939; and No. 8 of 1940; Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925); including Estate Duty Valuation (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), etc. 550 200
24 For the increase of the Grant to Local Authorities in Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land (No. 35 of 1925; No. 28 of 1931; No. 23 of 1939; and No. 20 of 1948) 62,000
29 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, including certain Services administered by that Office, and for payment of certain Subsidies and sundry Grants-in-Aid 10
30 For Agricultural Produce Subsidies, etc. 375,000
33 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Garda Síochána (No. 7 of 1925, No. 10 of 1926, No. 5 of 1937, No. 19 of 1941, and Nos. 1 and 17 of 1945) and for payments of compensation and other expenses arising out of service in the Local Security Force (No. 19 of 1946 and No. 15 of 1949) 303,670 3,750
41 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government, including Grants to Local Authorities, Grants and other expenses in connection with Housing and Miscellaneous Grants 516,000
42 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Registrar General of Births, etc. (7 & 8 Vict., c. 81, sec. 54; 26 Vict., c. 11, sec. 9, and c. 27; 26 & 27 Vict., c. 52, sec. 11, and c. 90, sec. 20; 42 & 43 Vict., c. 70; and 43 & 44 Vict., c. 13). 1,700 ^*1,700
44 For certain Grants-in-Aid of the National Health Insurance Fund and for other payments under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1948, and the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946). 60,200
46 For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation and a Grant-in-Aid, etc. 81,500
53 For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (No. 13 of 1946), including a Grant-in-Aid for Acquisition of Land 4,500 12,500
55 For Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including certain Services administered by that Office and for payment of certain Subsidies and sundry Grants-in-Aid. 10,010 *225,500
58 For certain Transport Services; for Grants for Harbours; for the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1947, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933)]; for certain payments in respect of Compensation, including the cost of medical treatment (No. 19 of 1946); for expenses in connection with the issue of Medals and Certificates; and for the Coast Life Saving Service. 4,91,000
61 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; No. 14 of 1940 (secs. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (sec. 23); etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office 109,700 28,840
62 For Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting (No. 45 of 1926) including Public Concerts. 8,670
64 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, No. 15 of 1937, No. 2 of 1941, No. 14 of 1943, No. 3 of 1946 and Nos. 19 and 28 of 1949); Military Service Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 48 of 1924, No. 26 of 1932, No. 43 of 1934, No. 33 of 1938, No. 5 of 1944, Nos. 11 and 34 of 1945, and Nos. 7 and 29 of 1949); Pensions Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936 and No. 9 of 1948); Payments in respect of Compensation for Members of the Local Defence Force (No. 19 of 1946 and No. 15 of 1949); and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, etc. 10
65 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for External Affairs, and certain Services administered by that Office (No. 16 of 1924), including a Grant-in-Aid 16,990
66 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Social Welfare 13,500 5,850
68 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health, and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants to Local Authorities, Miscellaneous Grants and a Grant-in-Aid, and certain charges connected with Hospitals 447,770 3,000
74 For the repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances 6,844
Total of Part I 6,611,924 *152,460

*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, 1951.

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