Naval Works Act 1901

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1901 c. 39
Year1901


Naval Works Act, 1901.

(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 39.

An Act to make further provision for the Construction of Works in the United Kingdom and elsewhere for the purposes of the Royal Navy.

[17th August 1901]

B E 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:

S-1 Issue of money for works mentioned in schedule.

1 Issue of money for works mentioned in schedule.

(1)1.—(1.) In addition to any sum authorised to be issued under any other Act, the Treasury shall issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums, not exceeding in the whole six million one hundred and fifty-seven thousand pounds, as may be required by the Admiralty for defraying the cost of the works specified in the schedule to this Act, subject to the terms and conditions in sections three and five of the Naval Works Act, 1896 ; and those sections and section five of the Naval Works Act, 1895 (which relates to the mode in which money may be raised), shall be construed as if they were herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to this Act.

(2) (2.) The Treasury may borrow under the said section five of the Naval Works Act, 1895, any sums which have been issued out of the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of the Naval Works Act, 1896, or the Naval Works Act, 1897 , and which the surplus set aside under section four of the Naval Works Act, 1896, was not sufficient to pay.

(3) (3.) The Bank of England may lend any money which the Treasury are authorised to raise under this Act.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theNaval Works Act, 1901.

S C H E D U L E.

Heads of Proposed Expenditure.

Works.

Total Estimated Cost, 1901.

Expenditure to 31st March 1900.

Estimated Expenditure from 1st April 1900 to 31st March 1901.

Estimated Expenditure for the Financial Years 1901-1902 and 1902-1903.

Expected Date of Completion.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

(a ) Enclosure and Defence of Harbours.

Gibraltar

1,239,000

765,541

179,843

213,000

1902-3

Gibraltar, Commercial Mole

*669,000

65,734

73,954

300,000

1903-4

Portland

✗650,000

310,644

82,767

150,000

1903-4

Dover

3,500,000

275,073

298,017

700,000

1907-8

Malta Breakwater

1,000,000

50,000

1907-8

(b ) Adapting Naval Ports to present Needs of Fleet.

Deepening harbours and approaches

† §1,100,000

703,236

32,185

350,000

Keyham Dockyard extension

4,175,000

865,830

432,783

1,052,000

1905-6

Portsmouth Docks

372,502

372,502

Completed.

Gibraltar Dockyard extension

2,674,000

390,808

198,584

470,000

1904-5

Hong Kong Dockyard extension

1,275,500

62,694

27,822

150,000

1904-5

Colombo Dock

159,000

15,000

21,000

72,000

1903-4

Pembroke Jetty, &c.

130,000

40,034

25,505

62,200

1903-4

Portsmouth, widening caisson

40,469

38,052

2,417

Completed.

Haulbowline improvements

63,000

48,512

9,174

5,314

1901-2

Chatham, dock

450,000

224

14,328

190,000

1903-4

Malta Dockyard extension

1,250,000

13,453

73,039

450,000

1907-8

Bermuda Dockyard extension

700,000

535

125,692

300,000

1906-7

Simon's Bay Dockyard extension, &c.

2,500,000

28,525

6,475

200,000

1907-8.

Coaling facilities

§1,000,000

500,000

1905-6

* The total estimated cost of the Commercial Mole is 700,000 l. , including 31,000 l. for superintendence under item (d ). Four sevenths of this sum is to be repaid by the Colony of Gibraltar in the form of an annuity of 14,000 l. per annum for 57 years from the opening of the Mole, to be credited as an appropriation in aid of Navy Vote 10.

✗ An expenditure of 40,543 l. was incurred during 1893-4 and 1894-5 in erecting dolphins on the line of the breakwater and was charged to Vote 10 in those years. This is in addition to the estimate of 650,000 l.

† Exclusive of the cost of dredging plant purchased prior to 31st March 1895.

§ It may become necessary to ask the sanction of Parliament to an increase of the total estimated cost of these items in a subsequent Bill, but without Parliamentary approval no works will be undertaken or scheme partially completed which will involve a liability beyond the sum named.

An expenditure estimated at 8,300 l. was incurred during 1896-7 to 1898-9 on the preliminary survey for this work and was charged to Vote 10 in those years. This is in addition to the estimate of 2,500,000 l. .

Heads of Proposed Expenditure.

Works.

Total Estimated Cost, 1901.

Expenditure to 31st March 1900.

Estimated Expenditure from 1st April 1900 to 31st March 1901.

Estimated Expenditure for the Financial Years 1901-1902 and 1902-1903.

Expected Date of Completion.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

(c ) Naval Barracks &c.

Chatham Naval Barracks

445,000

188,669

123,913

120,000

1902-3

* Naval Barracks for Medway Gunnery School.

220,000

1,057

50,000

1905-6

Portsmouth Naval Barracks

670,400

237,600

94,974

235,000

1903-4

Keyham Naval Barracks

230,000

65,231

50,687

57,000

1903-4

Chatham Naval Hospital

379,000

42,680

44,650

170,000

1903-4

Walmer Marine Dept

17,658

17,658

Completed.

Keyham Engineers' College

23,298

23,298

Completed.

‘Britannia’ R.N. College

315,000

62,335

34,875

100,000

1904-5

Magazines

870,000

221,891

138,186

309,332

1904-5

Haslar Hospital Extension

68,500

26,750

29,596

12,154

1901-2

Haulbowline Zymotic Hospital

12,463

11,626

837

Completed.

(d ) Superintendence and Miscellaneous Charges

1,303,074

182,015

72,310

224,000

27,501,864

5,077,207

2,193,613

6,492,000

Total of columns 3,4, and 5

13,762,820 ✗

* This item was formerly described as ‘Sheerness Naval Barracks.’

✗ Total estimated expenditure to 31st March 1903

13,762,820

Expenditure already authorised, viz.:—

Out of Navy Votes (8 and 10) prior to inclusion of works in Loan Acts

241,820

By Act of 1895 (1,000,000 l. less 140,000 l. lapsed)

860,000

By Act of 1896

2,750,000

By Act of 1897

654,000

By Act of 1899

3,100,000

7,605,820

Further expenditure to be authorised by this Act

6,157,000

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