Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1697804734334.pdf (Ireland)
BILLE LEITHREASA, 1926.

APPROPRIATION BILL, 1926.

Mar do tugadh isi each.

As introduced.

ARRANGEMENT OP SECTIONS.

GRANTS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND.

Section 1.

Issue of £16,904,176 out of the Central Fund.

2.

Power for the Minister for Finance to borrow.

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

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).

» [No.

29 of ’26.]

SAORSTAT EIREANN BILLE LEITHREASA, 1926.

APPROPRIATION BILL, 1926 BILL entitled 5 AN ACT TO APPLY A SUM OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN, AND TO APPRO­ PRIATE THE FURTHER SUPPLIES GRANTED IN THIS 10 SESSION OF THE OIREACHTAS.

P»E IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:— GRANTS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND.

1.
1.

—The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Central Fund 15 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-seven the sum of sixteen million, nine hundred and four thousand, one hundred and seventy-six pounds.

20 2.
20 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 sixteen million, nine hundred and four thousand, one hundred and seventy-six pounds, and for the purpose of such 25 borrowing the Minister for Finance may create and issue any securities bearing such rate of interest and subject to such con- * ditions 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 30 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 35 in which such Fund is available.

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.
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 40 by the said Schedule, in the aggregate to the sum of twenty-five million, eight hundred and twenty-one thousand, three hundred and eighty-six pounds are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Act mentioned in the said Schedule (A) for the services and 45 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 50 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.

55 2 Issue of £16,904,176 out of the Central Fund.


Power for the Minister for Finance to borrow; Appropriation of sums voted for supply- services.

4.
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 5 of the persons prescribed by such warrant: Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated.
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.

10 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.

—This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Short title.

Act.

1926.
Act.

1926.

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

Grants out of the Central Fund .. •• £25.821,386 SCHEDULE (B).

Appropriation of Grants.

______ 1925- 26 (Supplementary) «• 1926- 27 Total .. ..

Sums not Exceeding Supply Grants Appropria- tions-in-Aid £ 232,162 25.589.224 £ 1,640 976.476 £978.116 For the service of the year ended on the 31st March, 1926 :— SCHEDULE A.

Under Act No.
Under Act No.

13 of 1926 (Central Fund Act)......................... 232,162 For the service of the year ending on the 31st March, 1927 : ..

Under Act No.

13 of 1926 (Central Fund Act) Under this Act ...................................................................... 16,904,176 • • 8,685,048 Total ........................................................... £25,821,386 3 SCHEDULE (B).—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, 1926 :— (o!
(2) 2 - For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oireachtas .. For expenditure in respect of Public Buil­ dings ; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works ; for Maintenance of Drainage Works on the River Shannon ; for Barrow Drainage ; and sundry Grants in Aid Sums not exceeding Supply Grants.
(3) £ 10 Appropri­ ations- in-Aid (4) £ — 10 550 >9 25 37 42 43 52 63 64 65 66 For contributions towards the Relief of Unemployment and Distress 120,000 — For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses of various Circuit Court Officers, Bonus to Clerks of the Crown and Peace, and the Expenses of Revision For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Registrar General of Births, etc.

(7 & 8-Vic., c. 81, s. 54 ; 20 Vic.
c. 11, s. 9 ; 26 & 27 Vic., c. 52, s. 11 ; and c. 90, s. 20 ; 42 & 43 Vic., c.' 70, and 43 & 44 Vic., c. 13).................................... For the expenses of Primary Education, including Grants in Aid of Teachers' Pension Fund For Secondary Education, including the Teachers’ Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant and Increments of Salary to Secondary School Teachers For payments under the Railways Act, 1924, the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883, etc., and for other purposes connected with Irish Railways For the Remuneration for cost of Manage- ment of Government Stocks of Saorstat Eireann For the repayment to the National Land Bank of sums advanced by them to the Wolfhill Colleries, Limited, under a Government Guarantee .. ... For the repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances For the Salaries, Cost of Erection of Station and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting IO 10 690 19,900 — 8,070 400 10 11,466 [ - 1 58.032 259 — — 14.385 £232,162 _ 1,640 ■------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCHEDULE (B).—PART II.
Schedule of bums granted and of sums which may be applied as Appro- priations-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, 1927 :— I *3 *4 (I) • (2) For the Salaries and Expenses of the Governor-General’s Establishment under the Governor-General’s Salary and Es­ tablishment Act, 1923 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Oir­ eachtas For the Salaries and Expenses of the De­ partment of the President of the Executive Council For the Salaries and Expenses of the De­ partment of the Comptroller and Auditor- General For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General’s Office Sums not exceeding Supply Grants.
(3) £ 6,667 114,802 13.846 J8,739 59.984 Appropri- ations- in-Aid (4) £ „ r — — — — For the Salaries and Expenses of the Revenue Department 698,980 10,500 For the payment of Old Age Pensions under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1924, for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith, and for Pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920 2.557.3°° 2CO For Capital for the Local Loans Fund and to make repayment to the British Govern­ ment in respect of local loans out­ standing 1 1,186,900 For the Salaries and other Expenses of Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Special Inquiries 26,460 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 A 2 Will.
4., c. 33, ss.

5 & 6 ; 5 & 6 Viet., c. 89, ss.

1 & 2 ; 9 & 10 Viet., c. 86, ss.

2, 7 and 9 ; 10 Viet., c. 32, s. 3 ; 33 & 34 Viet., c. 46, s. 42 ; 40 & 41 Viet., c. 27 ; 44 & 45 Viet., c. 49, s. 31 ; &c.).................................... 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 .. For the Salaries and Expenses of the State .............. .. Labora tory .. .
• For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (Civil Service Re­ gulation Act, 19-4)- For payments in respect of destruction of, or injuries to, Property within the period 21st January, 1019, to 12th May, 1923. inclusive, under the Damage to Property (Compensation) Acts, 1923 to 1026, and otherwise ; and in respect of damage to, or loss of property and payments bv way of indemnification or recoupment under the Indemnity Act, 1924 ; and for payment of grants awarded on the re- commendation of the Property Losses (Ireland) Committee, rqiO, as compen­ sation for buildings destroyed in Dublin during Easter Week, 1916.
111,600 9,890 1,013,906 182,700 6,984 8,535 ~ .

i 1 1 11 * 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I | ____ — 2,170,500 15 For certain payments of Compensation in respect of Personal Injuries or Death.. 4,800 5 SCHEDULE (B)—Part II.—Continued.

Sums not exceeding Supply Grants.
(3)' / Appropri- ations- in-Aid (4)' l 1,800,326 96,830 14,000 50,000 30,000 3T50 — _ 7.845 — 155.325 28,225 35.021 6,895 47,002 2,250 599,011 73,527 15,200 169,800 152,000 4.I3I 29,822 950 — — _ _ U5I7.074 57.456 (I) (2) 16 For Superannuation, Compensation, Com­ passionate and Additional Allowances and Gratuities under sundry Statutes ; Com­ pensation under Article 10 of the Treaty of the 6th December, 1921 ; Compas­ sionate Allowances, Gratuities and Sup­ plementary Pensions awarded by the Minister for Finance ; the Salary of the Medical Refree; and Sundry Repay­ ments in respect of Pensions at present paid by the British Government .. 17 18 *9 20 21 22 23 For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates etc., in respect of Government Property.. For Secret Services For Contributions towards the Relief of Un­ employment and Distress For Expenses under the Representation of the People Act, 1918, the Electoral Act, 1923, and the Juries (Amendment) Act, 1924........................................................... For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, includ­ ing certain Grants-in-Aid .. For Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service ; for the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office and for sundry Miscel­ laneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey, under the Acts 15 and 16 Viet., c. 63 ; 17 Viet., c. 8; 17 Viet., c. 17; 20 and 21 Viet., c. 45 ; 22 and 23 Viet., c. 8 ; 23 Viet., c. 4 ; 27 and 28 Viet., c. 52 ; 37 and 38 Viet., c. 70 ; 61 and 62 Viet., c. 37 ; 19 of 1923 (Saorstat Eireann) ; and the Local Government (Application and Adapta­ tion) of Enactments Order, 1925 ; in­ cluding Estate Duty Valuation under the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services connected therewith For the increase of the Agricultural Grant (Local Government (Rates on Agricultural Land) Act, 1925) 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 .. For Expenses in connection with Haulbow- line Dockyard For Grants-in-Aid of the Expenses of Uni­ versity Institutions, including Grants under the Irish Universities Act, 1908, and the Land Act, 1923 For Subsidy in Respect of Beet Sugar (No.
37 ............................................... of 1925) For the Salaries and Expenses of the Quit Rent Office .. For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for J ustice For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gdrda Slochana (The Police Forces Amalgama­ tion Act, 1925) 6 SCHEDULE (B)— Part II.—Continued.

- (2) Sums not exceeding Supply Grants.


(3) £ Appropri- ations- in-Aid (4) £ For the expenses of the General Prisons Board, and of the Establishments under 1 their control, the Registration of Habitual i Criminals and the Maintenance of Criminal i Lunatics confined in District Mental !

Hospitals (17 & 18 Viet., c. 76 ; 34 & 35 Viet., c. 112, s. 6 ; 40 & 41 Viet., c. 49 ; 47 & 48 Viet., c. 36 ; 61 & 62 Viet., c. 60 ; 1 Edw.

7, c. 17, s. 3 , 8 Edw.

7, c. 59 ; and 4 & 5 Geo.


5, c. 58) .. For the Salaries and Expenses of Justices of the District Court (The Courts of Justice Act, 1924, sec.

74) .. For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Supreme Court and High Court of Saorstdt Eireann as are not charged on the Central Fund (30 & 31 Viet., cs.

44.
44.

114, and 129 • 40 & 41 Viet., c. 57 ; 45 & 46 Viet., c. 70 and Courts of Justice Act, 1924, s. 102).. 144.850 | 2,300 50,486 _ 69,024 3.055 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Land Registry and of the Registry of Deeds.. 53.328 — For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses !

of various Circuit Court Officers, Bonus ; to Clerks of the Crown and Peace, and the Expenses of Revision.
For the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record Office, and of the Keeper of State Papers, Dublin (30 & 31 Viet., c. 70 ; 38 & 39 Viet.

c. 59 ; and 39 & 40 Viet, ................................................ c- 58) For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Commissioners of Charitable Don- nations and Bequests (7 & 8 Viet., c. 97, ss.
7 & 8 ; 30 & 31 Viet., c. 54, s. 24 ; and 34 & 35 Viet., c. 102) 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 Asy­ lums For the Salaries and Expenses of the De­ partment of the Registrar General of Bii ths Ac.
(7 & 8 Viet., c. 81, s. 54 ; 26 Viet., c. 11, s. 9 ; 26 & 27 Viet., c. 52, s. 11, and c. 90, s. 20 ; 42 & 43 Viet., c. 70 ; and 43 & 44 Viet., c. 13).................................. .
For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asy­ lum .. For the Salaries and Expenses of the In­ surance Commission and for sundry Con­ tributions and Grants in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Adminis­ tration under the National Health Insu­ rance Acts, 1911 to 1925 (including certain Grants-in-Aid) For charges connected with Hospitals and Infirmaries, and certain Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, including sundry Grants-in-Aid For the Expenses of the Department of Edu­ cation in respect of costs of Administration, Inspection, &c. For the Expenses of Primary Education, including Grants-in-Aid of the Teachers’ Pension Fund 74.512 5.075 6,000 3,M9 ' 48 561,889 13.455 13,988 8,000 14.599 3-955 274.351 1,600 16,728 1 “ i 177,846 1,615 j 3.545.838 75° (I) 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 4i 42 43 44 45 46 SCHEDULE (B)—Part II.—Continued.
Sums not exceeding (0 47 48 49 (*> For Secondary Education, including the Teachers’ Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant and Increments of Salary to Secondary School Teachers For the Expenses connected with Technical Instruction For the Salaries and Expenses of the j Institutions of Science and Art in Dublin and of the Geological Survey of Ireland, ; including sundry Grants-in-Aid adminis­ tered by the Department of Education .. 50 For Expenses of Reformatory and|Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (Children Act, 1908) Appropri- ations- in-Aid (4) / 36,600 4°-4(,5 54-975 3.535 108,081 3.100.
51 For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery of Ireland 4-276 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of Agriculture and of certain Services administered by that Department, including sundry Grants-in-Aid 442,479 127,488, For a Grant-in-Aid of the Forestry Fund (9 & 10 Geo.

5, c. 58) 37.457 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Irish Land Commission (44 & 45 Viet., c. 49, s. 46, and c. 71, s. 4 ; 48 & 49 Viet., c. 73, ss.
17, 18 and 20 ; 53 & 54 Viet., c. 49, s. 2 ; 54 & 55 Viet., c. 48 ; 3 Edw.

7, c. 37 ; 7 Edw.

7, c. 38, and c. 56 ; 9 Edw.
7, c. 42 ; the Land Law (Commis­ sion) Act, 1923, and the Land Act, 1923) 693,600 90,590 For Advances to Agricultural Credit Societies and for Expenses incidental thereto 75,000 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including Umpire and Courts of Referees, Contributions to the Unemployment Fund and to Special Schemes, Payments to Associations under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, for advances to work­ people under the Labour Exchanges Act, 1909, Fees and Expenses of Medical Referees under the Workmen’s Compen­ sation Act, 1906, Fees to Certifying Sur­ geons under the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, Fees and Expenses under the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918, Fees I and Expenses under the Electricity (Supply) Act.
1919, and the Gas Regu­ lation Act, 1920, and the Weights and j Measures Act, 1889, also expenses in con­ nection with the International Labour Organisation (League of Nations) in­ .. cluding a Grant-in-Aid .. .. For Payments under the Railways Act, 1924, the Tramways and Public Com­ panies (Ireland) Act, 1883, Ac., and for other purposes connected with Irish Transport 35L777 ui,275 62,950 28,102 For the Salaries and other Expenses of the Railway Tribunal constituted under the Railways Act, 1924 8,162 For the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service (Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894- 1921, Crown Lands Acts, 1829-1866) .. For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Fisheries For the Salaries and Expenses of the De­ partment of Posts and Telegraphs, in­ cluding Telephones 8.477 4.512 54.2H 48,760 2,462,850 90,590 SCHEDULE (B)—Part II.—Continued.
(I) 62 63 64 65 66 (2) For the Salaries and other Expenses in con­ nection with Wireless Broadcasting For the cost of the Army, including Army Reserve 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 .. For the Salaries and Expenses of the De­ partment of External Affairs For a Grant-in-Aid of the Expenses of the League ot Nations, and for other Expenses in connection therewith ..
Sums not exceeding Supply Grants.

(3) £ 29,100 Appropri- ations- in-Aid (4) £ — 2.475.470 49.390 430,000 46,191 7,880 — .

Total .. 25,589,224 976,476 Saorstat Eireann.

Saorstat Eireann.

BILLE LEITHREASA, 1926.

APPROPRIATION BILL, 1926.


B I L L E (mar do tuyadh isteach) dd ngainntear BILL (as introduced) entitled Acht ehun suim as .an bPrimh-Chiste do chur chun seirbhise na bliana dar crloch an taonu la deag ar fhichead de Mharta, mile naoi gcead a seaebt fiehead agus chun na solathair eile a deonadh sa tsioson so den Oireachtas do chur i leithreas.
An Act to apply a sum out of the Central Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thou­ sand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and to appropriate the further supplies granted in this session of the Oireachtas.

An t-Airc Airyid do thug istcach.

Introduced by the Minister for Finance.

Do horduiodh, ay Bail Eireann, do chlo-bhuala 23adh Mcitheamh, 1926.

Ordered, by Bail Eireann, to be printed, 23rd June, 1926.

-J BAILE ATHA CLIATH: FOILLSITHE AG OIFIG AN tSOLATHAIR.
DUBLIN : PUBLISflED BY THE STATIONERY OFFICE.

\a ceannach tri Messrs. Eason ano Son, Ltd., 40 agus 41 Sraid Iochtarach Ui Chonaill.

Baile Atha Cliath.

To be purchased through Messrs. Eason &, Son, I td 40 and 41 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin.

Clo-bhuailte ag Messrs. Cahill and Co., Liu Wt.

.«&—208.

550.

7/26.

C.&Co.

(3987).

[Leath-Raol Gian."]

Printed by Messrs. Cahill and Co., Ltd. [Threepence Net.]