Short title. Act, 1888. 6. This Act may be cited as the Probate Duties (Scotland and Ireland) Act, 1888. Issue of 20,984,1917. out of the Consolidated Fund. Power for the Treasury to borrow. Appropriation of sums voted for supply services. CHAPTER 61. An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to Most Gracious Sovereign, WE E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Grant out of Consolidated Fund. 1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, the sum of twenty million nine hundred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-one pounds. 2. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may borrow from time to time, on the credit of the said sum of twenty million nine hundred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and ninetyone pounds, any sum or sums of equal or less amount in the whole, and shall repay the moneys so borrowed, with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said moneys were borrowed. Any moneys so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available. Appropriation of Grants. 3. All sums granted by this Act and the other Acts mentioned in Schedule (A.) annexed to this Act out of the said Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty, amounting, as appears by the said schedule, in the aggregate, to the sum of fifty-nine million sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-one pounds seven shillings and fourpence are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the first of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule (A.) for the purposes and services expressed in Schedule (B.) annexed hereto. The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed hereto, 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. the aggregate and for the 4. If a necessity arise for incurring expenditure not provided for Treasury may, in the sums appropriated to naval and military services by this Act, in certain cases and which it may be detrimental to the public service to postpone authorise exof exigency, until provision can be made for it by Parliament in the usual penditure uncourse, each of the departments entrusted with the control over the provided for; said services shall forthwith make application in writing to the provided that Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for their authority to grants for the defray temporarily such expenditure out of any surpluses which navy services may have been or which may be effected by the saving of expen- army services diture upon votes within the same department, and in such appli- respectively be cation the department shall represent to the Commissioners of the not exceeded. Treasury the circumstances which may render such additional expenditure necessary, and thereupon the said Commissioners may authorise the expenditure unprovided for as aforesaid to be temporarily defrayed out of any surpluses which may have been or which may be effected as aforesaid upon votes within the same department; and a statement showing all cases in which the naval and military departments have obtained the sanction of the said Commissioners to any expenditure not provided for in the respective votes aforesaid, accompanied by copies of the representations made to them by the said departments, shall be laid before the House of Commons with the appropriation accounts of navy and army services for the year, in order that such proceedings may be submitted for the sanction of Parliament, and that provision may be made for the deficiencies upon the several votes for the said services in such manner as Parliament may determine. The Commissioners of the Treasury shall not authorise any expenditure which may cause an excess upon the aggregate sums appropriated by this Act for naval services and for army services respectively. 5. Whereas the Commissioners of the Treasury, under the powers Sanction for vested in them by the Appropriation Act, 1886, and the Appropria- navy and army expenditure for tion Act, 1886, Session 2, have authorised expenditure not provided 1886-87 unfor in the sums appropriated by the said Acts to certain votes for provided for. naval and military services for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven to be temporarily defrayed out of surpluses, effected by the saving of Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated. Short title of 51 & 52 VICT. expenditure, on other votes for naval and military services for the said year; viz., 1st. A sum of twenty-four thousand seven hundred and seventy It is enacted that the application of the said sums is hereby 6. A person shall not receive any part of a grant which may be made in pursuance of this Act for half-pay or army, navy, or civil non-effective services until he has subscribed such declaration as may from time to time be prescribed by a warrant of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury before one of the persons prescribed by such warrant. Provided that, whenever any such payment is made at more frequent intervals than once in a quarter, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may dispense with the production of more than one declaration in respect of each quarter. 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 misdemeanor. 7. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Act, 1888. ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULES (A.) and (B.) to which this Act refers. For the service of the years ending 31st March 1887 and 1888: SCHED. (A.) SCHEDULE (B.)-PART 1. CIVIL SERVICES DEFICIENCIES, 1886-87. SCHEDULE OF SUMS granted to make good deficiencies on the several grants herein particularly mentioned for the year ended on the 31st day of March 1887; viz. : SCHED. (B.) PART 1. Civil Service Deficiencies, 1886-87. |