25 1947

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Number 25 of 1947.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1947.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Grants out of the Central Fund.

Section

1.

Issue of £10,400 out of the Central Fund for the year 1946–47.

2.

Issue of £38,081,963 out of the Central Fund for the year 1947–48.

3.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £38,092,363.

Appropriation of Grants.

4.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £58,443,785.

5.

Short title.

Abstract of Schdules (A) and (B) to which this Act Refers.

Schedule A .

Schedule B .


Acts Referred to

Foreshore Act, 1933

No. 12 of 1933

Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

No. 21 of 1939

Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946

No. 22 of 1946

Electoral Act, 1923

No. 12 of 1923

Juries Act, 1927

No. 23 of 1927

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Number 25 of 1947.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1947.


AN ACT TO APPLY CERTAIN SUMS OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDED ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN AND THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT AND TO APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPER SUPPLY SERVICES AND PURPOSES THE SUMS GRANTED BY THE CENTRAL FUND ACT, 1947, AND THIS ACT. [23rd July, 1947.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Grants out of the Central Fund.

Issue of £10,400 out of the Central Fund for the year 1946–47.

1. —The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Central Fund and apply towards making good the supply granted for the service of the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, the sum of ten thousand, four hundred pounds.

Issue of £38,081,963 out of the Central Fund for the year 1947–48.

2. —The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Central Fund and apply towards making good the supply granted for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, the sum of thirty-eight million, eighty-one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three pounds.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £38,092,363·

3. —(1) The Minister for Finance may borrow from any person and the Bank of Ireland may advance to the Minister for Finance any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole thirty-eight million, ninety-two thousand, three hundred and sixty-three pounds, and for the purpose of such borrowing the Minister for Finance may create and issue any securities bearing such rate of interest and subject to such conditions as to repayment, redemption or otherwise as he thinks fit.

(2) The principal and interest of any securities issued under this Act and the expenses incurred in connection with the issue of such securities shall be charged on the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) Any moneys raised by securities issued under this Act shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer and shall form part of the Central Fund and be available in any manner in which such Fund is available.

Appropriation of Grants.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £58,443,785.

4. —(1) All sums granted by this Act and the other Act mentioned in Schedule (A) annexed to this Act out of the Central Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting, as appears by the said Schedule, in the aggregate to the sum of fifty-eight million, four hundred and forty-three thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five 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 thereto. The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed thereto, with the note (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.

(2) In addition to the grants out of the Central Fund referred to in the foregoing subsection of this section, there may be applied out of any money directed under section 2 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 amounting, as appears thereby, in the aggregate to the sum of two million, nine hundred and fifty-three thousand, nine hundred and seventy-eight pounds.

Short title.

5. —This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1947.

Abstract of Schdules (A) and (B) to which this Act Refers.

Schedule A.

GRANTS.

Grants out of the Central Fund

£58,443,785

0

0

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Sums not exceeding

Year

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

1946–47 (Supplementary)

2,680,822

0

0

136,719

0

0

1947–48

55,762,963

0

0

2,817,259

0

0

Total                                         £

58,443,785

0

0

2,953,978

0

0

Schedule (A).

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£

s.

d.

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1947: Under Act No. 7 of 1947

2,670,422

0

0

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1947: Under this Act

10,400

0

0

For the Service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1948:

Under Act No. 7 of 1947

17,681,000

0

0

Under this Act

38,081,963

0

0

Total

£58,443,785

0

0

Schedule B.

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Part I.

Schedule of Supplementary sums granted, and of sums which may be applied as Appropriations-in-Aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned, for the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1947.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid

  4,600

6

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office

55,240

14,910

15

For the Salaries and Expenses of Commissions, Committees and Special Inquiries

  4,560

20

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid and payments of Compensation for Death or Personal Injuries

  1,000

21

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service; and for sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates

10,830

  7,410

23

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts

     10

  1,479

24

For the increase of the Grant to Local Authorities in Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land (No. 35 of 1925, No. 28 of 1931, No. 23 of 1939, and No. 36 of 1946)

1,040,400

26

For Grants to Universities and Colleges (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; No. 35 of 1929; and No. 27 of 1934), including certain Grants-in-Aid

45,000

29

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, and of certain Services administered by that Office, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

15,700

  7,550

32

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice

  3,130

33

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gárda Síochána (No. 7 of 1925, No. 10 of 1926, No. 5 of 1937, No. 19 of 1941, Nos. 1 and 17 of 1945) and for payments of compensation and other expenses arising out of service in the Local Security Force (No. 19 of 1946)

65,010

24,460

35

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 27 of 1926, secs. 49 and 50; No. 15 of 1928, sec. 13; and No. 48 of 1936, sees. 51 and 77) and for a Capitation Grant

  4,560

43

For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107)

    650

    124

47

For Secondary Education, including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant, Incremental Salary to Secondary School Teachers and Grant to the Secondary Teachers' Pension Fund

65,000

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art, for certain Miscellaneous Educational and Cultural Services, the Centenary Commemoration of Thomas Davis and the Young Ireland Movement, and sundry Grants-in-Aid

      10

50

For Expenses in connection with Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7, c. 67; No. 17 of 1926; No. 12 of 1941, etc.)

13,180

  1,094

53

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58, and No. 13 of 1946), including certain Grants-in-Aid

    10

10,990

54

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Gaeltacht Services, including Housing Grants and the purchase and sale of Homespuns

48,345

45,635

55

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including certain Services administered by that Office and payment of certain Subsidies and sundry Grants-in-Aid

300,000

  5,542

56

For Transport and Meteorological Services

    10

58

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1939, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933)]; for certain payments in respect of Compensation, including extra wages of seamen and the cost of medical treatment; for payments in respect of the provision of certain Protective Equipment for Ships; and for payments in connection with the rescue of certain Shipwrecked Seamen

  6,500

  *6,200

59

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance and Employment Exchanges (including Contributions to the Unemployment Fund), Unemployment Assistance, the Special Register of Agricultural and Turf Workers, Insurance against Intermittent Unployment, for certain services in connection with Food Allowances and for Expenses in connection with the provision of Labour for Harvest Work (9 Edw. 7, c. 7; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 30; 11 Geo. 5, c. 1; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 15; 12 Geo. 5, c. 7; No. 17 of 1923; Nos. 26 and 59 of 1924; No. 21 of 1926; No. 33 of 1930; Nos. 44 and 46 of 1933; No. 38 of 1935; No. 2 of 1938; No. 4 of 1940; No. 3 of 1941; No. 7 of 1942; No. 20 of 1943; No. 23 of 1945 and Nos. 22 and 37 of 1946)

22.310

*39,500

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (45 and 46 Vict., c. 74; 8 Edw. 7, c. 48; 1 and 2 Geo. 5, c. 26; the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928; No. 14 of 1940 (sees. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (sec. 23); etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office

377,815

14,585

63

For the Army and the Army Reserve (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, and for certain administrative Expenses in connection therewith; for Expenses in connection with the trial and detention of certain persons (No. 28 of 1939, No. 1 of 1940 and No. 16 of 1940, etc.); for certain Expenses under the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 and 1940 (No. 13 of 1939 and No. 2 of 1940) and the Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939 (No. 21 of 1939); for Reserve Medical Supplies for Civilian Hospitals; for certain Expenses of the Local Defence Force, 1941 to 1946; for Expenses in connection with the issue of Medals, etc.; for Expenses in connection with the Production of certain Chemicals for Sale for certain Expenses in connection with Blood Transfusion; and for he Expense of the Bureau of Military History

559,624

48,640

69

For Compensation and other Payments in connection with Injuries to Property caused by the dropping of bombs from foreign aircraft and by kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war (No. 24 of 1941)

12,000

70

For Compensation and other Payments in respect of Personal Injuries sustained by persons, not as members of State Services, as a result of the dropping of bombs by foreign aircraft and of kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war (No. 19 of 1946)

  1,450

74

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health

  3,340

75

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Social Welfare

    400

76

To meet such of the charges for Increases in Remuneration of Civil Servants as have not been otherwise provided for

19 230

77

For the repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances

    912

                      Total of Part I

£2,680,822

136,719

Schedule (B).

Part II.

Schedule of sums granted, and of sums which may be applied as Appropriations-in-Aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1948.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

1

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Secretary to the President, and for certain other Expenses of the President's Establishment (No. 24 of 1938)

  4,800

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in-Aid

145,400

3

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach (No. 16 of 1924; No. 40 of 1937; and No. 38 of 1938)

18,500

4

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (No. 1 of 1923), including the National Insurance Audit Office

29,230

  3,330

5

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office

97,250

  2,755

6

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office

1,230,760

39,700

7

For Old Age Pensions and Pensions to Blind Persons (Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1938); for Supplements and for Allowances in kind (No. 22 of 1946); and for certain Grants

5,149,750

  2,250

8

For Remuneration for the Management of Government Stocks

22,250

9

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, secs. 5 and 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, secs. 1 and 2; 9 & 10 Vict., c. 86, secs. 2, 7 and 9; etc.)

192,920

26,750

10

For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; and for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage Works

1,031,520

63,097

11

For Employment and Emergency Schemes (including Relief of Distress)

1,250,000

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

12,570

13

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (No. 5 of 1924 and No. 41 of 1926) and of the Local Appointments Commission (No. 39 of 1926 and No. 15 of 1940)

33,300

  7,500

14

For a Grant-in-Aid of the Irish Tourist Board (No. 24 of 1939)

45,000

15

For the Salaries and Expenses of Commissions, Committees and Special Inquiries

  7,700

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation (including Workmen's Compensation), and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1946, and sundry other Statutes; Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; fees to Medical Referees and occasional fees to Doctors; etc.

751,530

22,025

17

For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, etc., in respect of Government Property, and for Contributions towards Rates on Premises occupied by Representatives of External Governments

178,300

    65

18

For Secret Service

15,000

19

For Expenses under the Electoral Act, 1923 , and the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 12 of 1923 and No. 23 of 1927)

16,250

20

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid and payments of Compensation for Death or Personal Injuries

16,280

21

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service; and for sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates

203,780

52,528

22

For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey (15 & 16 Vict., c. 63; 17 Vict., c. 8 and c. 17; 20 & 21 Vict., c. 45; 22 & 23 Vict., c. 8; 23 Vict., c. 4; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 52; 37 & 38 Vict., c. 70; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 37; No. 19 of 1923; No. 3 of 1927; No. 27 of 1930; Nos. 27, 47 and 55 of 1931; No. 19 of 1932; No. 28 of 1937; No. 21 of 1939; and No. 8 of 1940; Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925); including Estate Duty Valuation (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), etc.

45,600

  7,095

23

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts

45,020

  3,750

24

For the increase of the Grant to Local Authorities in Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land (No. 35 of 1925, No. 28 of 1931; No. 23 of 1939; and No. 36 of 1946)

2,550,989

25

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Attorney-General, etc., and for the Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges, including a Grant in Relief of certain Expenses payable by Statute out of Local Rates

94,600

  3,900

26

For Grants to Universities and Colleges (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; No. 35 of 1929; and No. 27 of 1934), including certain Grants-in-Aid

333,274

27

For payment to the Pensions Investment Account (No. 29 of 1935), to the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Fund (No. 22 of 1946); and for the provision of Allowances in Kind (No. 22 of 1946)

962,500

28

For Grants to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (No. 13 of 1940)

53,810

29

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, and of certain Services administered by that Office, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

1,828,042

317,136

30

For Agricultural Produce Subsidies, etc.

2,065,000

31

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including a Grant-in-Aid

54,910

23,772

32

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice

65,230

33

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gárda Síochána (No. 7 of 1925, No. 10 of 1926, No. 5 of 1937, No. 19 of 1941, Nos. 1 and 17 of 1945) and for payments of compensation and other expenses arising out of service in the Local Security Force (No. 19 of 1946)

2,889,320

42,073

34

For the Expenses of Prisons, the Borstal Institution, and the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics confined in District Mental Hospitals (17 & 18 Vict., c. 76; 34 & 35 Vict., c. 112, sec. 6; 40 & 41 Vict., c. 49; 47 & 48 Vict., c. 36; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 60; 1 Edw. 7, c. 17, sec. 3; 8 Edw. 7, c. 59; and 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58)

154,850

  19,806

35

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund (7 Edw. 7, c. 17, sec. 3; No. 27 of 1926, secs. 49, 50 and 66; No. 15 of 1928, sec. 13; No. 48 of 1936, secs. 51 and 77; and No. 21 of 1946) and for a Capitation grant

59,750

36

For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses of Circuit Court Officers, Deputy Circuit Judges, Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs; the Travelling Expenses of Circuit Judges; and the Expenses of Revision of Voters and Jurors Lists (No. 27 of 1926, etc.)

85,480

28,220

37

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Supreme Court and High Court of Justice as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 27 of 1926, No. 48 of 1936, and No. 25 of 1945)

70,790

    260

38

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Land Registry (40 & 41 Vict., c. 57; 54 & 55 Vict., c. 66; No. 10 of 1924, sec. 102; and No. 26 of 1942, sec. 22); and of the Registry of Deeds (2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 87; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 76; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 5; and 46 & 47 Vict., c. 20)

64,140

39

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record Office, and of the Keeper of State Papers, Dublin (30 & 31 Vict., c. 70; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 59; and 39 & 40 Vict., c. 58), and for the purchase of Historical Documents, etc.

  6,990

40

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office (7 & 8 Vict., c. 97, secs. 7 & 8; 30 & 31 Vict., c. 54, sec. 24; and 34 & 35 Vict., c. 102)

  4,480

     48

41

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government, including Grants to Local Authorities and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Miscellaneous Grants and a Grant-in-Aid

828,180

31,327

42

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Registrar General of Births, etc. (7 & 8 Vict., c. 81, sec. 54; 26 Vict., c. 11, sec. 9, and c. 27; 26 & 27 Vict., c. 52, sec. 11, and c. 90, sec. 20; 42 & 43 Vict., c. 70; and 43 & 44 Vict., c. 13)

16,310

  8,000

43

For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107)

23,280

  1,303

44

For certain Grants-in-Aid of the National Health Insurance Fund and for other payments under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1947, and the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946), and for certain other Grants

804,000

45

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education

260,950

     74

46

For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation and a Grant-in-Aid, etc.

5,159,400

97,681

47

For Secondary Education, including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant, Incremental Salary to Secondary School Teachers and Grant to the Secondary Teachers' Pension Fund

827,880

39,925

48

For Payments under the Vocational Education Acts, 1930 to 1947, and for other purposes connected with Technical Instruction and Continuation Education

572,770

32,850

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art, for certain Miscellaneous Educational and Cultural Services, the Centenary Commemoration of Thomas Davis and the Young Ireland Movement, and sundry Grants-in-Aid

90,940

    6,250

50

For Expenses in connection with Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7, c. 67; No. 17 of 1926; No. 12 of 1941, etc.)

169,190

  8,753

51

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid

  8,010

52

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the Minister for Lands and of the Irish Land Commission (44 & 45 Vict., c. 49, sec. 46, and c. 71, sec. 4; 48 & 49 Vict., c. 73, secs. 17, 18 and 20; 54 & 55 Vict., c. 48; 3 Edw. 7, c. 37; 7 Edw. 7, c. 38, and c. 56; 9 Edw. 7, c. 42; Nos. 27 and 42 of 1923; No. 25 of 1925; No. 11 of 1926; No. 19 of 1927; No. 31 of 1929; No. 11 of 1931; Nos. 33 and 38 of 1933; No. 11 of 1934; No. 41 of 1936; No. 26 of 1939; and No. 12 of 1946)

1,420,150

132,700

53

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (No. 13 of 1946), including certain Grants-in-Aid

312,520

56,642

54

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Gaeltacht Services, including Housing Grants and the purchase and sale of Homespuns

55

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including certain Services administered by that Office and payment of certain Subsidies and sundry Grants-in-Aid

4,921,670

  2,600

56

For Aviation and Meteorological Services

1,435,480

180,595

57

For Children's Allowances (No. 2 of 1944 and No. 8 of 1946)

2,197,700

58

For certain Transport Services and for the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1939, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933)]; for certain payment, in respect of Compensation, including the cost of medical treatment (No. 19 of 1946); and for payments in connection with the provision of certain Protective Equipment for Ships

137,400

  9,608

59

For Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance (including Contributions to the Unemployment Fund and the cost of Supplements), Unemployment Assistance (including the cost of supplements and allowances), the Special Register of Agricultural and Turf Workers, Insurance against Intermittent Unemployment, and the provision of Labour for Harvest Work (9 Edw. 7, c. 7; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 30; 11 Geo. 5, c. 1; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 15; 12 Geo. 5, c. 7; No. 17 of 1923; Nos. 26 and 59 of 1924; No. 21 of 1926; No. 33 of 1930; Nos. 44 and 46 of 1933; No. 38 of 1935; No. 2 of 1938; No. 4 of 1940; No. 3 of 1941; No. 7 of 1942; No. 20 of 1943; No. 23 of 1945; No. 22 of 1946, and No. 37 of 1946)

1,372,840

735,010

60

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office (No. 16 of 1927 and No. 13 of 1929)

17,330

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (45 and 46 Vict., c. 74; 8 Edw. 7, c. 48; 1 and 2 Geo. 5, c. 26; The Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928; No. 14 of 1940 (secs. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (sec. 23); etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office

4,355,500

225,001

62

For Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting (No. 45 of 1926), including Public Concerts

327,085

63

For the Defence Forces (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, and for certain administrative Expenses in connection therewith; for certain Expenses under the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 and 1940 (No. 13 of 1939 and No. 2 of 1940) and the Air-raid Precautions Acts, 1939 and 1946 (No. 21 of 1939 and No. 28 of 1946); for Expenses in connection with the issue of Medals, etc.; and for Expenses of the Bureau of Military History

4,419,390

210,775

64

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923, No. 12 of 1927, No. 24 of 1932, No. 15 of 1937, No. 2 of 1941, No. 14 of 1943 and No. 3 of 1946); Military Service Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 48 of 1924, No. 26 of 1932, No. 43 of 1934, No. 33 of 1938, No. 5 of 1944 and Nos. 11 and 34 of 1945); Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936); Payments in respect of Compensation for Members of the Local Defence Force (No. 19 of 1946), and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, etc.

757,890

65

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for External Affairs, and of certain Services administered by that Office (No. 16 of 1924), including a Grant-in-Aid

161,750

66

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Social Welfare

671,330

89,618

67

For sundry Miscellaneous Social Welfare Services, including Grants

371,500

69

For Compensation and other Payments in connection with Injuries to Property caused by the dropping of bombs from foreign aircraft and by kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war (No. 24 of 1941)

14,500

70

For Compensation and other Payments in respect of Personal Injuries sustained by persons, not as members of State Services, as a result of the dropping of bombs by foreign aircraft and of kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war (No. 19 of 1946)

  2,500

71

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health, and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants to Local Authorities, miscellaneous Grants and Grants-in-Aid and certain charges connected with Hospitals

616,350

  1,555

72

For the Alleviation of Distress in Europe due to War

1,500,000

73

For the Repayment to the Central Fund of Sums Advanced Under the Trade Loans (Guarantee) Acts (No. 5 of 1939, sec. 10)

  5,943

Total of Part II                  

£55,762,963

£2,817,259

Total of Schedule (B)      

£58,443,785

£2,953,978