An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and one and one thousand nine hundred and three, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.
W 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 sums herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King'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:
Grants out of Consolidated Fund. Grants out of Consolidated Fund.
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Issue of 100l out of Consolidated Fund.1 Issue of 100l out of Consolidated Fund.
1. The Treasury 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 His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and one, the sum of one hundred pounds.
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Issue of 77,527,601l out of the Consolidated Fund.2 Issue of 77,527,601l out of the Consolidated Fund.
2. The Treasury 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 His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and three, the sum of seventy-seven million five hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and one pounds.
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Power for the Treasury to borrow.3 Power for the Treasury to borrow.
(1) The Treasury may borrow from any person, by the issue of Treasury Bills or otherwise, and the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland may advance to the Treasury on the credit of the said sums, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole seventy-seven million five hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and one pounds.
(2) The date of payment of any Treasury Bills issued under this section shall be a date not later than the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and three, and section six of the Treasury Bills Act, 1877 (which relates to the renewal of bills), shall not apply with respect to those bills.
(3) Any money borrowed otherwise than on Treasury Bills shall be repaid, with interest not exceeding five pounds per cent. 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 money was borrowed.
(4) Any money borrowed under this section shall be placed to the credit of the account of the 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.
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Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.4 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.
4. All sums granted by this Act and the other Act mentioned in Schedule (A.) annexed to this Act out of the said Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty, amounting, as appears by the said schedule, in the aggregate, to the sum of one hundred and fifty-one million two hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven pounds two shillings and fivepence, are appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Act mentioned in the said Schedule (A.), for the services and purposes 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.
In addition to the sums hereby granted out of the Consolidated Fund, there may be applied out of any money directed under section two 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.
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Treasury may, in certain cases of exigency, authorise expenditure unprovided for; provided that the aggregate grants for the navy services and for the army services respectively be not exceeded.5 Treasury may, in certain cases of exigency, authorise expenditure unprovided for; provided that the aggregate grants for the navy services and for the army services respectively be not exceeded.
5. If a necessity arise for incurring expenditure not provided for in the sums appropriated to naval and military services by this Act, and which it may be detrimental to the public service to postpone until provision can be made for it by Parliament in the usual course, the department entrusted with the control over the said service shall forthwith make application in writing to the Treasury for their authority to defray temporarily such expenditure out of any surpluses which may have been, or which may be, effected by the saving of expenditure upon votes within the same department; and in such application the department shall represent to the Treasury the circumstances which may render such additional expenditure necessary, and thereupon the Treasury 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 Treasury to any expenditure not provided for in the respective votes aforesaid, accompanied by copies of the representations made to them by the said department, 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 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.
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Sanction for navy and army expenditure for 1900-1901 unprovided for.6 Sanction for navy and army expenditure for 1900-1901 unprovided for.
6. Whereas the Treasury, under the powers vested in them by the Appropriation Act, 1900, the Appropriation Act, 1900 (Session 2), and the Appropriation Act, 1901, have authorised expenditure not provided for in the sums appropriated by the said Acts to certain votes for naval and military services for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and one to be temporarily defrayed out of surpluses effected by the saving of expenditure on other votes for naval and military services for the said year, viz.,
1st. A sum of three hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty-two pounds five shillings and fivepence for navy services out of the unexpended balances of certain votes, aided by sums realised in excess of the estimated Appropriations in Aid:
2nd. A sum of three million five hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and twenty pounds two shillings and elevenpence for army services out of the unexpended balances of certain votes, aided by sums realised in excess of the estimated Appropriations in Aid:
It is enacted that the application of the said sums is hereby sanctioned.
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Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated.7 Declaration required in certain cases before receipt of sums appropriated.
7. 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 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 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 misdemeanour.
8 Short title.
8. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theAppropriation Act, 1902.
ABSTRACT
of
SCHEDULES (A.) and (B.) to which this Act refers.
SCHEDULE (A.)
| |
s. d. |
| Grants out of the Consolidated Fund |
151,221,697 2 5 |
| |
|
SCHEDULE (B.)—Appropriation of Grants .
| |
Sums not exceeding |
Supply Grants. |
Appropriations in Aid. |
| 1900-1901-1902. |
|
|
| Part 1. Civil Services Excesses, |
s. d. |
s. d. |
| 1900-1901 |
155 2 5 |
3,455 14 7 |
| ,, 2. Army Excesses, 1900-1901 |
100 0 0 |
932,780 16 6 |
| ,, 3. Navy (Supplementary), 1901-1902 |
200,000 0 0 |
100,000 0 0 |
| ,, 4. Army (Supplementary), 1901-1902 |
5,000,000 0 0 |
— |
,, 5. Civil Services and Revenue Departments (Supplementary), 1901-1902 |
312,241 0 0 |
- *1,000 0 0 |
| |
5,512,496 2 5 |
1,035,236 11 1 |
| 1902-1903. |
|
|
| ,, 6. Navy |
31,255,500 0 0 |
1,121,217 0 0 |
| ,, 7. Army |
69,310,000 0 0 |
4,550,299 0 0 |
Army (Ordnance Factories) |
355,000 0 0 |
4,650,000 0 0 |
| ,, 8. Civil Services, Class I. |
2,306,402 0 0 |
87,273 0 0 |
| ,, 9. Ditto, Class II. |
2,606,224 0 0 |
580,042 0 0 |
| ,, 10. Ditto, Class III. |
3,862,773 0 0 |
734,364 0 0 |
| ,, 11. Ditto, Class IV. |
13,034,451 0 0 |
61,218 0 0 |
| ,, 12. Ditto, Class V. |
4,263,939 0 0 |
110,195 0 0 |
| ,, 13. Ditto, Class VI. |
630,740 0 0 |
145 0 0 |
| ,, 14. Ditto, Class VII. |
230,922 0 0 |
8,200 0 0 |
| ,, 15. Lord |
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