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23 1943

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Number 23 of 1943.

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APPROPRIATION (No. 2) ACT, 1943.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Grants out of the Central Fund.

Section

1.

Issue of £9,183,680 out of the Central Fund for the year 1943-44.

2.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £9,183,680.

Appropriation of Grants.

3.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £17,606,680, and application of appropriations-in-aid, viz., £548,103.

4.

Short title.

Schedule (A).

Schedule (B).

Acts Referred to

Central Fund (No. 2) Act, 1943

No. 22 of 1943

Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939

No. 21 of 1939

Electoral Act, 1923

No. 12 of 1923

Juries Act, 1927

No. 23 of 1927

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Number 23 of 1943.

APPROPRIATION (No. 2) ACT, 1943.

AN ACT TO APPLY A FURTHER 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 FORTY-FOUR AND TO APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPER SUPPLY SERVICES AND PURPOSES THE SUMS GRANTED BY THE CENTRAL FUND (No. 2) ACT, 1943 , AND THIS ACT. [2nd December, 1943.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Grants out of the Central Fund.

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Issue of £9,183,680 out of the Central Fund for the year 1943-44.

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 forty-four, the sum of nine million, one hundred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and eighty pounds.

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Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £9,183,680.

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 nine million, one hundred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and eighty 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.

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(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.

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(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.

Appropriation of Grants.

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Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £17,606,680, and application of appropriations-in-aid, viz., £548,103.

3. —(1) All sums granted by this Act and the Central Fund (No. 2) Act, 1943 (No. 22 of 1943), out of the Central Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting, as appears by Schedule (A) to this Act, in the aggregate to the sum of seventeen million, six hundred and six thousand, six hundred and eighty 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) to this Act. The Schedules to this Act shall be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

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(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) to this Act, the sums respectively set forth in the last column of the said Schedule amounting, as appears thereby, in the aggregate to the sum of five hundred and forty-eight thousand, one hundred and three pounds.

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Short title.

4. —This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (No. 2) Act, 1943.