Military Works Act 1899

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1899 c. 41
Year1899


Military Works Act, 1899.

(62 & 63 Vict.) CHAPTER 41.

An Act to make further Provision for Defraying the Expenses of certain Military Works and other Military Services.

[9th August 1899]

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:

S-1 Further grant for military works.

1 Further grant for military works.

1. The Treasury shall issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof, in addition to the sums authorised by the Military Works Act, 1897, such further sums not exceeding in the whole four million pounds as may be required by a Secretary of State for defraying the cost of the works mentioned in the schedule to this Act, and sub-sections two and three of section one of the Military Works Act, 1897 (which relate to control over expenditure), and section two of that Act (which relates to the mode in which money may be raised), shall apply with respect to the sums authorised by this Act to be issued.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theMilitary Works Act, 1899.

S C H E D U L E.

*Military Works.

Heads. Sums provided in Military Works Act, 1899. Sums provided in Military Works Act, 1897. Total Provision.
1. Defence works 1,000,000 1,120,000 2,120,000
2. Barracks, including completion of large camps

(a. ) New barracks for Artillery and Infantry at Salisbury Plain

1,600,000

(b. ) Additions to depts of regiments to which new battalions have been added, including—

Caterham 10,000
Bury 50,000
Warwick 40,000
Mill Hill 60,000
----- 160,000

(c. ) Barracks for Garrison Artillery at Berehaven, Buncrana, Harwich and Leith, and for a Field Battery at Exeter

70,000

(d. ) Additional accommodation for an increased Establishment of 80 men per battalion at Athlone, Belfast, Buttevant, Fermoy, Gosport, Holywood, Limerick, Portland, Portsmouth, and York

90,000

(e. ) Completion of work at the following barracks in progress under the Military Works Loan—

Ballincollig 25,000
Winchester 30,000
Woking 35,000
------ 90,000

(f. ) Additions and improvements to existing barracks at—

Edinburgh 25,000
Tipperary 25,000
Windsor 30,000
------ 80,000

* The above works are paitly new works and partly works which have been commenced and not completed under the Military Works Act, 1897.

No building shall be undertaken which cannot be completed within the 4,000,000 l. granted under this Act.

Heads.

Sums provided in Military Works Act, 1899. Sums provided in Military Works Act, 1897. Total Provision.
2. Barracks

(g. ) Continuation of reconstruction of large camps in progress under Military Works Loan—

Aldershot 100,000
Colchester 50,000
Curragh 50,000
Shorneliffe 30,000
----- 230,000
(h. ) Barracks at Foreign stations—
Gibraltar 50,000
Halifax 40,000
Malta 120,000
Wei-hai-Wei 130,000

Bermuda, Jamaica, Mauritius, and St. Helena 90,000

Freight and local transport of stores 20,000

---- 450,000
------ 2,770,000 2,989,000 5,759,000
3. Ranges 40,000 *1,149,000 *1,189,000
4. Staffand
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