Appropriation Act , 1957

Type Act
Publication 1957-07-18
State In force
articles 5
Reform history JSON API

1 Issue of £2,480,109 out of the Central Fund for the year 195657.

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 fifty-seven, the sum of two million, four hundred and eighty thousand, one hundred and nine pounds.

2 Issue of £69,422,620 out of the Central Fund for the year 195758.

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 fifty-eight, the sum of sixty-nine million, four hundred and twenty-two thousand, six hundred and twenty pounds.

3 Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £71,902,729.

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 seventy-one million, nine hundred and two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-nine 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.

4 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £110,212,729.

4.—(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 one hundred and ten million, two hundred and twelve thousand, seven hundred and twenty-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 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 six million, six hundred and twelve thousand, three hundred and thirty-one pounds.

5 Short title.

5.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1957.

Schedule A GRANTS.

Grants out of Central Fund £110,212,729 0 0

Schedule B. APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Year Sums not exceeding
Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
£ s. d. £ s. d.
195657 (Supplementary) 3,490,109 0 0 *360,590 0 0
195758 106,722,620 0 0 6,972,921 0 0
Total£ 110,212,729 0 0 6,612,331 0 0

*Deficit

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£ s. d.
For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1957:
Under Act No. 2 of 1957 1,010,000 0 0
Under this Act 2,480,109 0 0
For the Service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1958:
Under Act No. 2 of 1957 37,300,000 0 0
Under this Act 69,422,620 0 0
Total £110,212,729 0 0

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, 1957.

Vote No. Title Sums not exceeding
Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
(1) (2) (3) (4)
£ £
9 For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage and other Engineering Works; and for a Grant-in-Aid of the River Shannon Navigation 25,500
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 23,000 700
22 For Grants to Universities and Colleges, including certain Grants-in-Aid 20,000
25 For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey Office, including certain other Services administered by that Office 10 805
27 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 490,000 *362,095
38 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 40,000
51 For certain Transport Services; for Grants for Harbours; for the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1952, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933)]; for certain Protective Equipment for Ships; for certain payments in respect of Compensation, including the cost of medical treatment (No. 19 of 1946); and for the Coast Life Saving Service 1,300,000
58 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), including a Grant-in-Aid 10
59 For contributions to the Council of Europe, the Organisation for European Economic Co-Operation and the United Nations; and for other expenses in connection therewith 10
61 For payments to the Social Insurance Fund (No. 14 of 1950 and No. 11 of 1952) 1,581,000
63 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health (including Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora), and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants to Local Authorities, miscellaneous Grants and Grants-in-Aid 10
68 For the Salaries and Expenses of Roinn na Gaeltachta 10,000
69 For the repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances 569
£ 3,490,109 *360,590

*Depicit

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, 1958.

Vote No. Title Sums not exceeding
Supply Grants Appropriations-in-Aid
(1) (2) (3) (4)
£ £
1 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Secretary to the President, and for certain other Expenses of the President's Establishment (No. 24 of 1938) 8,240
2 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid 232,330
3 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach (No. 16 of 1924; No. 40 of 1937; No. 38 of 1938; and No. 24 of 1947) 29,180
4 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Central Statistics Office 145,820 500
5 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (No. 1 of 1923) 35,530 5,980
6 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office 167,500 1,510
7 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office 1,950,700 83,000
8 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, secs. 5 & 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, secs. 1 and 2; 9 & 10 Vict., c. 86, secs. 2, 7 and 9; etc.) 424,100 103,700
9 For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage and other Engineering Works; and for a Grant-in-Aid of the River Shannon Navigation 3,766,200 190,817
10 For Employment and Emergency Schemes (including Relief of Distress) 658,450 20,000
11 For Remuneration for the Management of Government Stocks 51,220
12 For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory 24,280 1,430
13 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (No. 45 of 1956) and of the Local Appointments Commission (No. 39 of 1926, No. 15 of 1940 and No. 9 of 1946) 39,800 17,960
14 For a Grant to An Chomhairle Ealaion (No. 9 of 1951) 20,000
15 For the Salaries and Expenses of Commissions, Committees and Special Inquiries 10,880
16 For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation (including Workmen's Compensation), and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1956, and sundry other Statutes; Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; fees to Medical Referees and occasional fees to Doctors; Compensation and other Payments in respect of Personal Injuries; etc. 980,200 126,510
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 388,000 11,100
18 For Secret Service 7,000
19 For Expenses under the Electoral Act, 1923, and the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 12 of 1923 and No. 23 of 1927) 18,000
20 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; No. 36 of 1946; No. 36 of 1953; and No. 18 of 1956) 5,160,000
21 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Attorney General, etc., and 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 118,760 5,000
22 For Grants to Universities and Colleges, including certain Grants-in-Aid 671,640
23 For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid, Compensation and other Payments in connection with Injuries to Property (No. 24 of 1941) and payments of Compensation for Death or Personal Injuries 50,000
24 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Printing and Binding, and the provision of Stationery, Paper, Books, Office Machinery and other Office Supplies for the Public Services; and for sundry Miscellaneous Purposes, including the publication and sale of Reports of Oireachtas Debates, Bills, Acts and Other Government Publications 427,300 105,405
25 For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey Office, including certain other Services administered by that Office 78,100 8,140
26 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts 73,800 7,010
27 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 6,837,950 1,702,255
28 For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including sundry Grants-in-Aid 132,200 26,720
29 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice, including certain other Services administered by that Office 91,700
30 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Garda Síochána including Pensions, etc. (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 68; No. 25 of 1924; No. 7 of 1925; No. 10 of 1926; No. 32 of 1933; No. 5 of 1937; No. 19 of 1941; Nos. 1 and 17 of 1945; and No. 41 of 1947) 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) 4,666,080 113,053
31 For the Expenses of Prisons, St. Patrick's, and the Maintenance of Prisoners 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; 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58; and No. 9 of 1956) 174,940 27,467
32 For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund (7 Edw. 7, c. 17, sec. 3; No. 27 of 1926, secs. 49, 50 and 66; No. 15 of 1928, sec. 13; No. 48 of 1936, secs. 51 and 77; No. 4 of 1946, secs. 35 and 36; No. 21 of 1946; No. 8 of 1951; and No. 32 of 1953) and for a Capitation grant 90,790
33 For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses of Circuit Court Officers, Temporary Additional Circuit Judges and Sheriffs; the Travelling Expenses of Circuit Judges; and the Expenses of Revision of Voters and Jurors Lists (No. 27 of 1926, etc.) 120,460 37,729
34 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, No. 48 of 1936, No. 25 of 1945 and No. 32 of 1953) 102,670 1,500
35 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Land Registry (40 & 41 Vict., c. 57; 54 & 55 Vict., c. 66; No. 10 of 1924, sec. 102; and No. 26 of 1942, sec. 22); and of the Registry of Deeds (2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 87; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 76; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 5; and 46 & 47 Vict., c. 20) 109,670
36 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. 9,290
37 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office (7 & 8 Vict., c. 97, secs. 7 & 8; 30 & 31 Vict., c. 54, sec. 24; 34 & 35 Vict., c. 102; and No. 18 of 1955) 5,940 38
38 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 4,728,700 58,548
39 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education and for Expenses connected with the Council of Education 366,740 88
40 For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation, etc. 9,138,350 120,150
41 For Secondary Education, including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant, Incremental Salary to Secondary Teachers and Grant to the Secondary Teachers' Pension Fund 2,308,700 59,020
42 For Payments under the Vocational Education Acts, 1930 to 1953 (No. 29 of 1930; No. 50 of 1936; No. 9 of 1944; No. 1 of 1947; No. 33 of 1950; and No. 37 of 1953), and for other purposes connected with Technical Instruction and Continuation Education 1,135,620 38,772
43 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art, for certain Miscellaneous Educational and Cultural Services, and sundry Grants-in-Aid 151,650 10,812
44 For Expenses in connection with Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7, c. 67; No. 17 of 1926; No. 12 of 1941; and No. 6 of 1949) 184,110 4,705
45 For Grants to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (No. 13 of 1940) 64,300
46 For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid 11,020
47 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the Minister for Lands and of the Irish Land Commission (44 & 45 Vict., c. 49, sec. 46, and c. 71, sec. 4; 48 & 49 Vict., c. 73, secs. 17, 18 and 20; 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; No. 25 of 1925; No. 11 of 1926; No. 19 of 1927; No. 31 of 1929; No. 11 of 1931; Nos. 33 and 38 of 1933; No. 11 of 1934; No. 41 of 1936; No. 26 of 1939; No. 12 of 1946; No. 25 of 1949; No. 16 of 1950; No. 18 of 1953; and No. 21 of 1954) 2,036,270 166,785
48 For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (No. 13 of 1946 and No. 6 of 1956), including a Grant-in-Aid for Acquisition of Land 1,941,000 313,205
49 Le haghaidh Tuarastal agus Costas Roinnna Gaeltachta, maille le Deontais le haghaidh Tithe agus Ildeontais-i-gCabhair 505,440 403,820
50 For the 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 3,437,360 75,957
51 For certain Transport Services; for Grants for Harbours; for the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1952, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933)]; for certain Protective Equipment for Ships; for certain payments in respect of Compensation, including the cost of medical treatment (No. 19 of 1946); and for the Coast Life Saving Service 3,819,390 93,100
52 For Aviation and Meteorological Services 316,360 580,340
53 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office (No. 16 of 1927, No. 13 of 1929, No. 45 of 1947 and No. 32 of 1949) 26,850
54 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 1953; No. 45 of 1926; No. 14 of 1940 (secs. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (sec. 23); No. 17 of 1951; etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office 8,663,500 545,608
55 For Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting (No. 45 of 1926), including Public Concerts 430,500 93,400
56 For the Defence Forces (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Act, 1954 (No. 18 of 1954), and for certain administrative Expenses in connection therewith; for certain Expenses under the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 and 1940 (No. 13 of 1939 and No. 2 of 1940) and the Air-raid Precautions Acts, 1939 and 1946 (No. 21 of 1939 and No. 28 of 1946); for Expenses in connection with the issue of Medals, etc.; for Expenses of the Bureau of Military History; and for a Grant-in-Aid of the Irish Red Cross Society (No. 32 of 1938) 6,171,220 226,196
57 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, Nos. 19 and 28 of 1949, No. 23 of 1953, etc.); 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, Nos. 7 and 29 of 1949 and No. 5 of 1953); Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936, No. 9 of 1948, No. 30 of 1950, No. 27 of 1952, No. 4 of 1953, etc.); 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. 1,657,130
58 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), including a Grant-in-Aid 450,410 5,386
59 For contributions to the Council of Europe, the Organisation for European Economic Co-Operation and the United Nations; and for other expenses in connection therewith 71,570
60 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Social Welfare 474,700 934,030
61 For payments to the Social Insurance Fund (No. 14 of 1950 and No. 11 of 1952) 3,655,000
62 For Old Age Pensions and Pensions to Blind Persons, Children's Allowances, Unemployment Assistance, Widows' and Orphans' Non-contributory Pensions, and for Sundry Miscellaneous Social Welfare Services, including Grants 18,539,000 310,250
63 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health (including Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora), and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants to Local Authorities and miscellaneous Grants 8,114,600 333,760
64 For the Expenses of the Maintenance, Etc., of Patients in Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107; and No. 19 of 1945) 44,410 2,165
65 For a Grant to Bord Fáilte Éireann (No. 5 of 1955) 400,000
£ 106,722,620 6,972,921
Total of Schedule B£ 110,212,729 6,612,331

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