APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 (1956_act_32) | IE

ISB Act 1956-08-03

Schedule 1 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 Open official source

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

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

GRANTS.

Grants out of Central Fund

£114,797,738 0 0

ISB Act 1956-08-03

Sec. 1 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 Open official source

Issue of £73,093,280 out of the Central Fund for the year 1956-57.

1

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 fifty-seven, the sum of seventy-three million, ninety-three thousand, two hundred and eighty pounds.

ISB Act 1956-08-03

Schedule 2 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 Open official source

Schedule B. APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Year

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

195556 (Supplementary)

5,504,458

0

165,515** Deficit.

* Deficit.

0

195657

109,293,280

0

6,785,224

0

Total

£

114,797,738

0

6,619,709

0

Schedule A.

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£

s.

d.

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1956

Under Act No. 12 of 1956

5,504,458

0

For the Service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1957

Under Act No. 12 of 1956

36,200,000

0

Under this Act

73,093,280

0

Total

£114,797,738

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, 1956.

Vote No.

Title

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

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

34,770

217,515** Deficit.

* Deficit.

28

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including sundry Grants-in-Aid and for a payment in respect of compensation

20,500

—

40

For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation and a Grant-in-Aid, etc.

90,000

—

43

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art, for certain Miscellaneous Educational and Cultural Services, the Centenary Commemoration of Thomas Davis and the Young Ireland Movement, and sundry Grants-in-Aid

9,731

—

46

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid

1,000

—

49

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Gaeltacht Services, including Housing Grants

20,000

—

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

20

—

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

344,700

10,000

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

85,000

42,000

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

844,000

—

67

For the repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances

737

—

68

For payment of certain Remuneration

1,054,000

—

69

For the National Development Fund

3,000,000

—

£

5,504,458

165,515

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, 1957.

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)

8,320

—

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid

232,420

—

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)

29,520

—

4

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Central Statistics Office

174,030

200

5

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (No. 1 of 1923)

37,030

6,140*Deficit.

Deficit.

6

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office

174,480

1,260

7

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office

2,032,000

82,500

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.)

437,500

104,600

9

For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; and for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage and other Engineering Works

3,540,000

191,567

10

For Employment and Emergency Schemes (including Relief of Distress)

705,700

25,500

11

For Remuneration for the Management of Government Stocks

47,670

—

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

26,790

—

13

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (No. 5 of 1924 and No. 41 of 1926) and of the Local Appointments Commission (No. 39 of 1926, No. 15 of 1940 and No. 9 of 1946)

41,630

16,090

14

For a Grant to An Chomhairle Ealaíon (No. 9 of 1951)

20,000

—

15

For the Salaries and Expenses of Commissions, Committees and Special Inquiries

11,750

—

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation (including Workmen's Compensation), and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1954, 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.

954,950

119,740

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

339,700

10,300

18

For Secret Service

7,500

—

19

For Expenses under the Electoral Act, 1923, and the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 12 of 1923 and No. 23 of 1927)

19,000

—

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; etc.)

5,000,000

—

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

123,120

4,000

22

For Grants to Universities and Colleges, including certain Grants-in-Aid

667,480

—

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

28,940

—

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

502,710

97,105

25

For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey Office, including certain other Services administered by that Office

75,850

8,095

26

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts

68,000

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

7,568,700

1,910,490

28

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

158,420

28,650

29

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice, including certain other Services administered by that Office

95,530

—

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)

4,740,940

105,171

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; and 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58)

185,740

29,920

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

91,940

—

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.)

130,690

29,975

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)

101,830

1,100

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)

107,070

—

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.

10,230

—

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)

5,680

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

4,721,970

56,340

39

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education and for Expenses connected with the Council of Education

380,540

85

40

For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation and a Grant-in-Aid, etc.

9,113,600

115,060

41

For Secondary Education, including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant, Incremental Salary to Secondary Teachers and Grant to the Secondary Teachers' Pension Fund

1,820,110

53,005

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

1,179,510

37,176

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

180,160

10,691

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)

196,040

5,055

45

For Grants to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (No. 13 of 1940)

63,000

—

46

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid

11,320

—

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)

2,040,900

170,481

48

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (No. 13 of 1946)\, including a Grant-in-Aid for Acquisition of Land

1,822,800

243,204

49

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Gaeltacht Services, including Housing Grants

383,160

350,250

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

7,525,170

93,177

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

1,736,630

53,315

52

For Aviation and Meteorological Services

420,380

487,204

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)

26,860

—

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

8,585,000

523,150

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)

7,033,450

230,000

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 and No. 23 of 1953); 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 and No. 4 of 1953); 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.

1,630,360

—

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

457,240

5,100

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

102,400

—

60

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Social Welfare

551,200

843,150

61

For payments to the Social Insurance Fund (No. 14 of 1950 and No. 11 of 1952)

2,146,000

—

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

18,523,000

299,000

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

9,137,940

335,350

64

For the Expenses of the Maintenance, Etc., of Patients in Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107; and No. 19 of 1945)

46,450

1,580

65

For the Salaries and Expenses of Oifig na Gaeltachta agus na gCeantar gCúng

4,730

—

66

For a Grant to Bord Fáilte Eireann (No. 5 of 1955)\

400,000

—

67

For payment of Increases in certain Pensions, etc., in respect of public service

120,000

—

£

109,293,280

6,785,224

Total of Schedule B

£

114,797,738

6,619,709

ISB Act 1956-08-03

Sec. 2 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 Open official source

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £73,093,280.

2

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 seventy-three million, ninety-three thousand, two 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.

(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.

ISB Act 1956-08-03

Sec. 3 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 Open official source

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £114,797,738.

3

3.—(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 fourteen million, seven hundred and ninety-seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty-eight 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 nineteen thousand, seven hundred and nine pounds.

ISB Act 1956-08-03

Sec. 4 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956 Open official source

Short title.

4

4.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1956.

APPROPRIATION ACT, 1956

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