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Appropriation Act 1960

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1960 c. 45
Year1960


Appropriation Act, 1960

(8 & 9 Eliz. 2) 45

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 sixty-one, 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 3,118,930,312 out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending 31st March 1961.

1 Issue of 3,118,930,312 out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending 31st March 1961.

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

(2) The date of payment of any Treasury Bills issued under this section hall be a date not later than the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, 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 Act 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 five thousand, four hundred and twenty-four million, six hundred and thirty-two thousand, five hundred and forty-four 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 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 for application of surpluses on certain Navy, Army and Air Votes for 1958-59.

5 Sanction for application of surpluses on certain Navy, Army and Air Votes for 1958-59.

5. Whereas under the powers given for the purpose by the Appropriation Acts, 1958 and 1959, surpluses arising on certain votes for Navy, 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) to this Act:

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

S-6 Short title.

6 Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as theAppropriation Act, 1960.

A B S T R A C T

OF

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

SCHEDULE (A)

Grants out of the Consolidated Fund 5,424,632,544

SCHEDULE (B).—Appropriation of Grants

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid
1959-60

Part 1. Ministry of Defence (Supplementary), 1959-60

 10 *-1,488,010

Part 2. Navy (Supplementary), 1959-60

 10 4,000,000

Part 3. Army (Supplementary), 1959-60

 4,000,000 *-920,000

Army, War Office (Supply), 1959-60

 100 12,500,020

Army, War Office (Purchasing (Repayment) Services), 1959-60

 100 —

Army, Royal Ordnance Factories (Supplementary), 1959-60

 20 1,557,000

Part 4. Air (Supplementary), 1959-60

 10 *-3,360,000

Part 5. Civil and Revenue Departments (Supplementary) 1959-60

 78,025,782 3,611,171
82,026,032 15,900,181

* Deficit.

SCHEDULE (B).—Appropriation of Grants

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

1960-61

Part 6. Ministry of Defence

 16,570,000 5,614,000

Part 7. Navy

 397,500,010 59,246,000

Part 8. Army

 470,050,110 71,249,990

Army, War Office (Purchasing (Repayment) Services)

 100 —

Army, Royal Ordnance Factories

 7,400,000 32,400,000

Part 9. Air

 527,460,010 71,840,100

Total, Defence

 1,418,980,230 240,350,090

Part 10. Civil, Class I

 17,917,032 4,961,269

Part 11. Civil, Class II

 110,060,958 4,648,053

Part 12. Civil, Class III

 103,261,308 14,082,645

Part 13. Civil, Class IV

 216,806,705 43,250,682

Part 14. Civil, Class V

 1,335,070,077 170,048,930

Part 15. Civil, Class VI

 281,707,875 64,924,565

Part 16. Civil, Class VII

 90,116,197 19,430,610

Part 17. Civil, Class VIII

 324,988,123 19,884,430

Part 18. Civil, Class IX

 343,078,157 39,408,533

Part 19. Civil, Class X

 631,199,250 31,066,250

Total, Civil

 3,454,205,682 411,705,967

Part 20. Revenue Departments

 469,420,600 73,764,665

Grand Total

 5,424,632,544 741,720,903

SCHEDULE (A)

Grants out of the Consolidated Fund

For the service of the year ended on the 31st day of March 1960—

Under Act 8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 10

 82,026,032

For the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March 1961—

Under Act 8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 10

 2,223,676,200

Under this Act

 3,118,930,312

Total

 5,424,632,544
1

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 1

Ministry of Defence (Supplementary), 1959-60

Schedule of Supplementary Sum granted to defray the charge of the Ministry of Defence for the year ended on the 31st day of March 1960, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

For the salaries and expenses of the Ministry of Defence; expenses in connection with International Defence Organisations, including international subscriptions; and certain grants in aid

10 *-1,488,010

* Deficit.

2

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 2

Navy (Supplementary), 1959-60

Schedule of Supplementary Sum granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to meet expenditure beyond the sum already provided in the grants for Navy Services for the year ended on the 31st day of March 1960, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

Vote

1. Pay, &c., of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines

 300,000 —

2. Victualling and Clothing for the Navy

 Cr. 300,000 250,000

4. Civilians employed on Fleet Services

 200,000 —

6. Scientific Services

 Cr. 650,000 250,000

8. Shipbuilding, Repairs and Maintenance, &c.—

Section I—Personnel

 1,050,000 100,000

Section II—Matriel

 Cr. 5,250,000 1,250,000

Section III—Contract Work

 5,500,000 3,195,000

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