Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act 1854
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1854 c. 94 |
| Year | 1854 |
(17 & 18 Vict.) C A P. XCIV.
[10th August 1854]
'WHEREAS the several Charges and Payments described in the Schedule (A.) to this Act are charged, by various Acts of Parliament or otherwise, upon certain Branches of the Public Revenue: And whereas certain other Charges and Payments described in the Schedule (B.) to this Act are also charged by the like Authorities upon the said Revenue and upon the Consolidated Fund respectively: And whereas it is expedient, in order to bring the gross Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom and theIsle of Man under the more immediate View and Control of Parliament, that such Charges and Payments should be otherwise provided for, as herein-after mentioned, and that the financial Accounts should be prepared and Payments regulated with reference to the Periods for which Supplies are now commonly granted by Parliament:' 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:
I Charges in Schedule \(A.) to be payable out of the Consolidated Fund; and Charges in Schedule \(B.) to be paid out of Aids, &c. voted by Parliament, except in certain Cases.
I. From and after the First Day ofApril One thousand Eight hundred and fifty-four, the several Charges and Payments described in the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act, and which, under the Acts and Authorities in the same Schedules respectively referred to, are charged on or made payable out of the several Branches of the Public Revenue in such Schedules mentioned, or on or out of the Monies in the Hands of Commissioners or Collectors or other Receivers of such Revenues, or otherwise now charged on or payable out of all or any Parts of such Revenue respectively, or on or out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, shall cease to be so charged and payable; and such of the said Charges and Payments as are described in the said Schedule (A.) shall be charged on and payable out of the said Consolidated Fund; and such of the said Charges and Payments as are described in the said Schedule (B.) shall be paid out of such Aids or Supplies as may be from Time to Time provided and appropriated by Parliament for the Purpose: Provided always, that where the Salary of any Office holden for Life or during good Behaviour is fixed by or under any Act of Parliament, and charged on or payable out of the said Consolidated Fund, or payable out of the gross Produce of Customs and Excise under the Act of the Seventh Year of Queen Anne , Chapter Eleven, the Act of the Tenth Year of Queen Anne , Chapter Twenty-six, and subsequent Acts, nothing herein contained shall, so long as the present Holder of such Office continues to hold the same, affect the Charge on the said Consolidated Fund, or the Payment out of the gross Produce of Customs and Excise, of the Salary which at the Time of the passing of this Act is payable in respect of such Office: Provided also, that in the event of any Paymentbeing made out of the said Revenues, or out of the Consolidated Fund, before the passing of this Act, on account of any of the Services described in the said Schedules for any Period subsequent to the said First Day ofApril One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, the same shall be repaid to the said Revenues, or to the Consolidated Fund, as the Case may be, out of the Consolidated Fund, or out of Monies which may be provided by Parliament for such Services for the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four—five.
II Annual Financial Accounts to be made up to 31st March instead of 5th January.
II. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, if they shall see fit, at and after such Time as may appear to them convenient, instead of the Accounts now by Law directed to be annually prepared and made out for One Year ending on the Fifth Day of January in each Year of the total Income of the United Kingdom, including all the ordinary Revenues and extraordinary Resources thereof, and of the Income of the said Consolidated Fund, and of the actual Payments thereout, and of the future annual Charge upon the said Fund, and of the net Produce of all the permanent Taxes of the United Kingdom, and of the Arrears and Balances due from all public Accountants, and of the Exports and Imports of the United Kingdom, and of the Shipping registered in or belonging to the several Ports of Her Majesty's Dominions, and of the public Expenditure of the United Kingdom, and of the Public Funded Debt of the United Kingdom, and the Reduction thereof, and of the Unfunded and Outstanding Debt of the United Kingdom, and instead of the Account showing how the Monies given for the Service of the United Kingdom for the Year preceding the said Fifth Day ofJanuary have been disposed of, to cause Accounts to be annually prepared and made up for One Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of March , and in all respects with reference to such Day, in like Manner as if in the Provisions now in force relating to the Preparation and making out of such Accounts the Thirty-first Day of March was substituted for the Fifth Day of January ; and the said Commissioners shall in each Year cause such Accounts to be laid before both Houses of Parliament on or before the Thirtieth Day of June , if Parliament be sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting then within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament.
III Quarterly Accounts of Receipts and Expenditure of the United Kingdom to be made up to the End of March, June, September, and December, instead of the old Quarter Day.
III. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, at and after such Time as may appear to them convenient, instead of the Accounts of the actual Receipt and Expenditure of the United Kingdom now by Law directed to be prepared Four Times in the Year, within Thirty Days after the Fifth Day ofApril , the Fifth Day of July , the Tenth Day of October , and the Fifth Day of January respectively, showing the actual Receipt and Expenditure of the United Kingdom in the Four Quarters for the whole of the Year immediately preceding such several quarterly Days respectively, according to the actual Receipt and Issue of Monies at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, to cause like Accounts to be prepared within Thirty Days after the Thirty-first Day of March , the Thirtieth Day of June , the Thirtieth Day of September , and the Thirty-first Day of December in each Year, showing such Receipt and Expenditure in the Four Quarters for the whole of the Year ending on such several last-mentioned quarterly Days respectively, and from and after the Time at which the said Accounts shall be first made up to any of such last-mentioned quarterly Days to which such Accounts shall be made up, in pursuance of this Act, the Sums by the Act of the Tenth Year of KingGeorge the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-seven, directed to be from Time to Time issued out of the said Consolidated Fund to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, shall be ascertained according to such Accounts, as if the last-mentioned quarterly Days had been mentioned in the said Act instead of the quarterly Days mentioned therein, and all other Provisions relating to the Accounts required to be prepared as aforesaid, and referring to such quarterly Days shall be construed in like Manner.
IV Accounts of Income and Charge of Consolidated Fund to be made up to the End of March, June, September, and December, instead of the old Quarter Days.
IV. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, at and after such Time as may appear to them convenient, instead of making up the Accounts of the Income and Charge of the said Consolidated Fund for the Quarters ending on the Fifth Day ofApril , the Fifth Day of July , the Tenth Day of October , and the Fifth Day of January in each Year, to cause such Accounts to be made up for the Quarters ending on the Thirty-first Day of March , the Thirtieth Day of June , the Thirtieth Day of September , and the Thirty-first Day of December in each Year, and from and after the Time at which the said Accounts shall be first made up to any of such last-mentioned quarterly Days, in case it appear to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, upon making up such Accounts for the Quarter ending on any of such...
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