Number 15 of 1957.
APPROPRIATION ACT, 1957.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Grants out of the Central Fund
Appropriation of Grants
Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £110,212,729. | |
Abstract of Schedules A and B to which this Act Refers
Acts Referred to | |
No. 12 of 1933 | |
No. 18 of 1954 |
Number 15 of 1957.
APPROPRIATION ACT, 1957.
Grants out of the Central Fund.
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.
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.
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.
Appropriation of Grants.
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.
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 |