Merchant Shipping Law Amendment Act, 1853

Provision for expenses charged partly on such general fund and partly on the Consolidated Fund.

29. The several payments and expenses which by the said Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act, 1851, are charged partly on the said general fund therein mentioned, and partly on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall, except as regards the payment to the Seamen's Hospital Society herein-after mentioned, be provided for by annual votes of Parliament.[1]

[Ss. 30–68, and Sched. rep. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 120. s. 4.]

[1The Act 14 & 15 Vict. c. 102. contained the following enactments, which were repealed by section 25 of this Act:—

27. The Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury shall from time to time pay towards the fund, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, such sums as may be necessary, in addition to the other sources of the fund, to satisfy the expenditure hereby authorized; and the Board of Trade, with the consent of the said commissioners, may from time to time regulate the proportions in which the deficiency of annual income is to be made good out of the capital of the fund and out of the said Consolidated Fund respectively.

28. Provided that the sum to be contributed from the Consolidated Fund towards defraying the expenditure hereby authorized in any one year shall never be less than one half of the expenditure for such year.

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51. For the period of seven years from the last day before the passing of this Act on which any quarterly payment has been made to the “Seamen's Hospital Society,” in pursuance of the thirty-second section of the said Act of the fifth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter fifty-two, the Board of Trade may, out of the revenues of the fund, pay to the said society an annual sum, not exceeding in any one year five hundred and fifty pounds, to be applied by the said society according to the directions contained in the Act of the third and fourth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter nine