Appropriation Act, 1962

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Number 19 of 1962.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1962.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Issue of £1,399,330 out of the Central Fund for the year 1961-62.

2.

Issue of £103,150,660 out of the Central Fund for the year 1962-63.

3.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £104,549,990.

4.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £165,885,890.

5.

Declarations in relation to receipt of certain payments.

6.

Short title.

Abstract of Schedules A and B to which this Act Refers

Schedule A

Schedule B

Part I

Part II


Act Referred to

Finance Act, 1937

1937, No. 18

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Number 19 of 1962.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1962.


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 SIXTY-TWO, AND THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE, TO APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPER SUPPLY SERVICES AND PURPOSES THE SUMS GRANTED BY THE CENTRAL FUND ACT, 1962, AND THIS ACT, AND TO MAKE CERTAIN PROVISION IN RELATION TO BORROWING. [1st August, 1962.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Grants out of the Central Fund

Issue of £1,399,330 out of the Central Fund for the year 1961-62.

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 sixty-two, the sum of one million, three hundred and ninety-nine thousand, three hundred and thirty pounds.

Issue of £103,150,660 out of the Central Fund for the year 1962-63.

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 sixty-three, the sum of one hundred and three million, one hundred and fifty thousand, six hundred and sixty pounds.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £104,549,990.

3.—(1) The Minister for Finance may borrow from any person any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole one hundred and four million, five hundred and forty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety 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., £165,885,890.

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 sixty-five million, eight hundred and eighty-five thousand, eight hundred and ninety 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 fifteen million, four hundred and sixty-five thousand and twenty-seven pounds.

Declarations in relation to receipt of certain payments.

5.—(1) Subject to such exemptions as may be provided by or under rules made by the Minister for Finance, a person shall not receive any payment out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas for non-effective services unless, in relation to that payment, the declaration prescribed by such rules has been made, by the recipient or such other person as may be provided as aforesaid, before a person of such description as may be prescribed by the rules or (where it is so required by an authority so prescribed) before a person determined by that authority in accordance with the rules, and the declaration is supported by any declaration required by or under the rules to be made by a person of such a description, or a person determined, as aforesaid.

(2) Every person who makes a declaration for the purpose of this section which is to his knowledge untrue in any material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding thirty pounds.

(3) Section 20 of the Finance Act, 1937 , is hereby repealed.

(4) This section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister for Finance may by order appoint.

Short title.

6.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1962.

Abstract of Schedules A and B to which this Act Refers

Schedule A

GRANTS

Grants out of Central Fund

£165,885,890

Schedule B

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS

Sums not exceeding

Year

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

£

£

1961-62 (Supplementary)

13,399,030

312,007

1962-63

152,486,860

15,153,020

Total                                £

165,885,890

15,465,027

Schedule A

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND

£

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1962:

Under Act No. 6 of 1962

11,999,700

Under this Act

1,399,330

For the Service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1963:

Under Act No. 6 of 1962

49,336,200

Under this Act

103,150,660

Total                                                            £

165,885,890

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, 1962.

Sum of not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

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) including a Grant-in-Aid

550

17

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; No. 18 of 1956; and No. 11 of 1959)

90,000

18

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

32,750

1,150

20

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

50,800

8,600

24

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; No. 41 of 1947; No. 44 of 1956; and No. 43 of 1959) 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)

70,000

47,202

29

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

20

31

For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation, etc

400,000

32

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

102,000

34

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art, for certain Miscellaneous Educational and Cultural Services, and sundry Grants-in-Aid

10

40

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

91,700

43,000

43

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

10,300,000

*81,000

44

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 sundry Grants-in-Aid

592,990

45

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Transport and Power, including certain Services administered by that Office, and for payment of sundry Grants-in-Aid

10,000

30,000

46

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and of certain other Services administered by that Office, and for payment of Grants-in-Aid

325,000

47

For the Defence Forces (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Acts, 1954 and 1960 (No. 18 of 1954 and No. 44 of 1960), 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.; and for a Grant-in-Aid of the Irish Red Cross Society (No. 32 of 1938)

10

157,755

48

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, No. 19 of 1957, No. 15 of 1959, Nos. 2 and 39 of 1960 and No. 6 of 1961); 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, No. 5 of 1953, No. 12 of 1957 and Nos. 3 and 30 of 1960); Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936, No. 9 of 1948, No. 30 of 1950, No. 27 of 1952, No. 4 of 1953, No. 17 of 1957 and Nos. 4, 5, 6, 31 and 33 of 1960, 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.

30,000

53

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

135,000

100,500

54

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

565,000

4,100

55

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

3,200

700

56

To meet such of the charges for Increases in Remuneration of Civil Servants as have not been otherwise provided for

600,000

£

13,399,030

312,007

*Deficit

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, 1963.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

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) including a Grant-in-Aid

12,660

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including certain Grants-in-Aid

347,180

3

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach

36,680

4

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Central Statistics Office

211,600

1,000

5

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

47,990

6,300

6

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

351,460

1,505

7

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

2,687,320

86,755

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.)

660,900

125,000

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

6,062,000

280,157

10

For Employment and Emergency Schemes (including Relief of Distress)

827,920

41,000

11

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

33,100

1,160

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (No. 45 of 1956 and No. 38 of 1959) and of the Local Appointments Commission (No. 39 of 1926, No. 15 of 1940 and No. 9 of 1946)

52,040

18,280

13

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

30,000

14

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.

1,403,830

152,125

15

For Secret Service

7,500

16

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

21,000

17

For Grants to Local Authorities in Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land (61 & 62 Vict., c. 37; No. 35 of 1925; No. 28 of 1931; No. 23 of 1939; No. 36 of 1946; No. 36 of 1953; No. 18 of 1956; and No. 11 of 1959, etc.)

8,595,000

18

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

171,330

6,500

19

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid

21,480

20

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

615,900

116,220

21

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey and certain Minor Services

232,860

22,000

22

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

601,000

12,400

23

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice, and of certain other Services administered by that Office, including certain Grants-in-Aid, and of the Public Record Office, and of the Keeper of State Papers, Dublin (30 and 31 Vict., c. 70; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 59; and 39 & 40 Vict., c. 58), and for the purchase of Historical Documents, etc.

154,520

525

24

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; No. 41 of 1947; No. 44 of 1956; No. 43 of 1959 and No. 1 of 1962) 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)

6,459,290

198,690

25

For the Expenses of Prisons, St. Patrick's, and the Maintenance of Prisoners confined in District Mental Hospitals (17 & 18 Vict., c. 76; 34 and 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)

283,240

37,376

26

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Circuit Court and the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund, and for the Expenses of the Special Criminal Court

412,660

33,550

27

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)

143,960

28

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office (No. 17 of 1961)

7,730

38

29

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

6,061,340

90,360

30

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

516,600

100

31

For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation, etc.

12,239,000

139,600

32

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

3,140,750

30,610

33

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

2,001,390

43,275

34

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art, for certain Miscellaneous Educational and Cultural Services, and sundry Grants-in-Aid

287,170

11,500

35

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; No. 6 of 1949; and No. 28 of 1957)

237,540

4,370

36

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

92,510

37

For Grants-in-Aid of Universities and Colleges

1,780,830

38

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

15,130

120

39

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the Minister for Lands and of the Irish Land Commission

2,490,050

180,000

40

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

2,524,800

678,000

41

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

380,730

28,980

42

Le haghaidh Tuarastail agus Costais Roinn na Gaeltachta, maille le Deontais le haghaidh Tithe agus Ildeontais-i-gCabhair

570,940

3,010

43

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

20,073,410

5,465,786

44

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 sundry Grants-in-Aid

3,089,460

181,590

45

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Transport and Power, including certain Services administered by that Office, and for payment of sundry Grants-in-Aid

5,004,740

1,108,860

46

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and of certain other Services administered by that Office, and for payment of Grants-in-Aid

12,905,080

4,353,571

47

For the Defence Forces (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Acts, 1954 and 1960 (No. 18 of 1954 and No. 44 of 1960), 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.; and for a Grant-in-Aid of the Irish Red Cross Society (No. 32 of 1938)

8,848,100

203,064

48

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, No. 19 of 1957, No. 15 of 1959, Nos. 2 and 39 of 1960 and No. 6 of 1961); 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, No. 5 of 1953, No. 12 of 1957 and Nos. 3 and 30 of 1960); Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936, No. 9 of 1948, No. 30 of 1950, No. 27 of 1952, No. 4 of 1953, No. 17 of 1957, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 31 and 33 of 1960 and No. 5 of 1961, 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

1,865,460

1,593

49

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

594,650

5,100

50

For contributions to the Council of Europe, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations and Intergovernmental Legal Bodies; and for other expenses in connection therewith

229,780

1,000

51

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

532,600

1,115,740

52

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

6,279,000

53

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

19,190,000

338,000

54

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

10,524,000

26,460

55

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

59,650

1,750

56

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

460,000

£

152,486,860

15,153,020

Total of Schedule B                 £

165,885,890

15,465,027