Appropriation Act 1958

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Appropriation Act, 1958.

(6 & 7 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 57

An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We , Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom 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 hereinafter 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

Grant out of Consolidated Fund

S-1 Issue of 2,804,637,275 out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1959.

1 Issue of 2,804,637,275 out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending 31st March, 1959.

1. The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, 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 nine hundred and fifty-nine, the sum of two thousand, eight hundred and four million, six hundred and thirty-seven thousand, two hundred and seventy-five pounds.

S-2 Power for the Treasury to borrow.

2 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 sum, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole two thousand, eight hundred and four million, six hundred and thirty-seven thousand, two hundred and seventy-five 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, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine, 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 any interest payable thereon, out 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

Appropriation of Grants

S-3 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.

3 Appropriation of sums voted for supply services.

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 four thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one million, five hundred and twenty-five thousand and sixty-five pounds, and fifteen shillings 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 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 said sums 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.

S-4 Sanction of Treasury for temporary application of surpluses on certain votes for Navy, Army, and Air Services, to meet deficiencies on other votes for the same service.

4 Sanction of Treasury for temporary application of surpluses on certain votes for Navy, Army, and Air Services, to meet deficiencies on other votes for the same service.

(1) So long as the aggregate expenditure on Navy, Army, and Air Services respectively is not made to exceed the aggregate sums appropriated by this Act for those services respectively, any surplus arising on any vote for those services either by an excess of the sum realised on account of appropriations in aid of the vote over the sum which may be applied under this Act as appropriations in aid of that vote, or by saving of expenditure on that vote, may, with the sanction of the Treasury, be temporarily applied either in making up any deficiency in the sums realised on account of appropriations in aid of any other vote in the same department, or in defraying expenditure in the same department which is not provided for in the sums appropriated to the service of the department 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.

(2) A statement showing all cases in which the sanction of the Treasury has been given to the temporary application of a surplus under this section, and showing the circumstances under which the sanction of the Treasury has been given, shall be laid before the House of Commons with the appropriation accounts of the Navy, Army, and Air Services for the year, in order that any temporary application of any surplus sanctioned by the Treasury under this section may be submitted for the sanction of Parliament.

S-5 Sanction in connection with Navy, Army and Air expenditure for 1956-57.

5 Sanction in connection with Navy, Army and Air expenditure for 1956-57.

5. Whereas under the powers given for the purpose by the Appropriation Acts, 1956 and 1957, surpluses arising on certain votes for Army and Air Services have been applied towards making good deficits on those services respectively as shown in the statements set out in Schedule (C), Parts II and III, to this Act; and whereas surpluses arising on certain votes for Navy Services, together with the sum granted by this Act for those services, for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, have been applied towards meeting deficits on those services as shown in the statement set out in Schedule (C), Part I, to this Act:

It is enacted that the application of those surpluses and of the said sum, as shown in the said statements, is hereby sanctioned.

S-6 Short title.

6 Short title.

6. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theAppropriation Act, 1958.

A B S T R A C T

of

SCHEDULES (A) and (B) to which thisAct refers

SCHEDULE (A)

s. d.
Grants out of the Consolidated Fund 4,821,525,065 15 0

SCHEDULE (B).—Appropriation of Grants

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

1956-57 and 1957-58 s. d. s. d.

Part 1. Navy (Excess),

1956-57

469,975 15 0 *-879,829 0 1

Part 2. Civil (Excess),

1956-57

10 0 0 33,571 3 1

Part 3. Ministry of

Defence (Supplementary),

1957-58

10 0 0 *-788,510 0 0

Part 4. Navy

(Supplementary), 1957-58

35,000,000 0 0 *-9,500,000 0 0

Part 5. Air

(Supplementary), 1957-58

10 0 0 *-2,180,000 0 0

Part 6. Civil and Revenue

Departments (Supplementary), 1957-58

125,497,685 0 0 13,007,770 0 0
160,967,690 15 0 *-306,997 17 0

* Deficit

SCHEDULE (B).—Appropriation of Grants—continued

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

1958-59 s. d. s. d.

Part 7. Ministry of

Defence

16,750,000 0 0 2,611,000 0 0
Part 8. Navy 339,400,000 0 0 71,250,000 0 0
Part 9. Army 431,400,100 0 0 67,250,000 0 0
Part 10. Air 467,050,000 0 0 89,090,100 0 0
Total, Defence 1,254,600,100 0 0 230,201,100 0 0
Part 11. Civil, Class I 17,161,471 0 0 8,828,493 0 0
Part 12 Civil, Class II 83,970,292 0 0 3,243,709 0 0
Part 13. Civil, Class III 99,215,009 0 0 12,648,894 0 0
Part 14. Civil, Class IV 520,816,916 0 0 36,203,709 0 0
Part 15. Civil, Class V 779,091,968 0 0 155,035,108 0 0
Part 16. Civil, Class VI 269,410,730 0 0 95,224,155 0 0
Part 17. Civil, Class VII 79,988,000 0 0 17,421,475 0 0
Part 18. Civil, Class VIII 360,965,439 0 0 22,515,148 0 0
Part 19. Civil, Class IX 221,836,728 0 0 28,880,155 0 0
Part 20. Civil, Class X 543,974,685 0 0 26,793,500 0 0
Total, Civil 2,976,431,238 0 0 406,794,346 0 0

Part 21. Revenue

Departments

429,526,037 0 0 64,532,000 0 0
Grand Total 4,821,525,065 15 0 701,220,448 3 0

SCHEDULE (A)

Grants out of the Consolidated Fund

s. d.

For the service of the year ended on the 31st day of March 1957—

Under Act 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 18

469,985 15 0

For the service of the year ended on the 31st day of March 1958—

Under Act 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 7

54,108,813 0 0

Under Act 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 18

106,388,892 0 0

For the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1959—

Under Act 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 18

1,855,920,100 0 0

Under this Act

2,804,637,275 0 0
Total 4,821,525,065 15 0
1

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 1

Navy (Excess), 1956-57. ,

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

s. d. s. d.

Sum granted, and sum which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to make good an excess on the grants for Navy Services for the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1957

469,975 15 0 *-879,829 0 1

* Deficit.

2

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 2

Civil (Excess), 1956-57

Sum granted, and sum which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to make good an excess on a certain grant for Civil Services for the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1957, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

s. d.
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