Military Works Act 1897
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1897 c. 7 |
| Year | 1897 |
Military Works Act, 1897.
(60 & 61 Vict.) CHAPTER 7.
An Act to provide for defraying the Expenses of certain Military Works and other Military Services.
[8th April 1897]
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the execution of the military works specified in the schedule to this Act at the estimated cost therein stated:
Be it therefore 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:
1 Issue of money for works mentioned in schedule.
(1)1.—(1.) The Treasury shall issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums not exceeding in the whole five million four hundred and fifty-eight thousand pounds, as may be required by a Secretary of State for defraying the costs of the works specified in the schedule to this Act, incurred at any time after the thirty-first of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
(2) (2.) Before any moneys are issued for the purpose of expenditure under any head in the schedule to this Act, a Secretary of State shall submit to the Treasury an estimate, with such details as may be required by the Treasury, of the expenditure under that head for which it is for the time being proposed to issue money, and shall therewith state the period within which it is proposed to expend the money so issued.
(3) (3.) There shall be no excess of expenditure under any head in the schedule above the amount stated therein for that head, unless the Treasury and Secretary of State are satisfied that the excess will be compensated by savings on the expenditure under another head, so that no excess will be caused over the total expenditure specified in the schedule, and in such cases the savings may be applied in payment of the excess.
2 Borrowing for purposes of Act, and accounts and audit.
(1)2.—(1.) The Treasury may, if they think fit, at any time for the purpose of providing money for the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund under this Act, or the repayment to that fund of all or any part of the sums so issued, borrow money by means of terminable annuities for such period not exceeding thirty years from the passing of this Act as the Treasury may fix, and all sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Exchequer.
(2) (2.) The said...
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