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Number 15 of 1957.


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APPROPRIATION ACT, 1957.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Grants out of the Central Fund

Section

1.

Issue of £2,480,109 out of the Central Fund for the year 1956–57.

2.

Issue of £69,422,620 out of the Central Fund for the year 1957–58.

3.

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

Appropriation of Grants

4.

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

5.

Short title.

Abstract of Schedules A and B to which this Act Refers

Schedule A

Schedule B


Acts Referred to

Foreshore Act, 1933

No. 12 of 1933

Defence Act, 1954

No. 18 of 1954

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Number 15 of 1957.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1957.


AN ACT TO APPLY A CERTAIN SUM OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDED ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN, AND THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT, TO APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPER SUPPLY SERVICES AND PURPOSES THE SUMS GRANTED BY THE CENTRAL FUND ACT, 1957, AND THIS ACT, AND TO MAKE CERTAIN PROVISION IN RELATION TO BORROWING. [18th July, 1957.] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Grants out of the Central Fund.

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Issue of £2,480,109 out of the Central Fund for the year 1956–57.

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.

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Issue of £69,422,620 out of the Central Fund for the year 1957–58.

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.

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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.

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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., £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.

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(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.

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Short title.

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

Abstract of Schedules A and B to which this Act Refers.

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.

1956–57 (Supplementary)

3,490,109

0

0

*360,590

0

0

1957–58

106,722,620

0

0

6,972,921

0

0

Total        £

110,212,729

0

0

6,612,331

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, 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

Schedule B

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS

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, 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 B

Part II

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