Appropriation Act 1870
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1870 c. 96 |
| Year | 1870 |
Appropriation Act, 1870
(33 & 34 Vict.) CHAP. 96.
An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.
[10th August 1870]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
W E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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:
Grant out of Consolidated Fund.
1 Issue of 24,281,493l out of the Consolidated Fund.
1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the sum of twenty-four million two hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-three pounds.
2 Power for the Treasury to borrow.
2. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may borrow from time to time on the credit of the said sum of twenty-four million two hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-three pounds, any sum or sums of equal or less amount in the whole, and shall repay the moneys so borrowed, with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said sums were borrowed.
Any sums so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.
Appropriation of Grants.
3 Appropriation of sums voted for supply service.
3. All sums granted by this Act and the other Acts mentioned in Schedule (A.) annexed to this Act out of the said Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty, amounting, as appears by the said Schedule, in the aggregate to the sum of forty-two million eight hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-four pounds seven shillings and twopence, are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the first of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule (A.) for the purposes and services expressed in Schedule (B.) annexed hereto.
The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed hereto, with the notes (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.
4 Treasury may, in certain cases of exigency, authorise expenditure unprovided for; provided that the aggregate grants for the navy services and for the army services respectively be not exceeded.
4. If a necessity arise for incurring expenditure not provided for in the sums appropriated to naval and military services by this Act, and which it may be detrimental to the public service to postpone until provision can be made for it by Parliament in the usual course, each of the departments entrusted with the control over the said services shall forthwith make application in writing to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for their authority to defray temporarily such expenditure out of any surpluses which may have been or which may be effected by the saving of expenditure upon votes within the same department, and in such application the department shall represent to the Commissioners of the Treasury the circumstances which may render such additional expenditure necessary, and thereupon the said Commissioners may authorise the expenditure unprovided for as aforesaid to be temporarily defrayed out of any surpluses which may have been or which may be effected as aforesaid upon votes within the same department; and a statement showing all cases in which the naval and military departments have obtained the sanction of the said Commissioners to any expenditure not provided for in the respective votes aforesaid, accompanied by copies of the representations made to them by the said departments, shall be laid before the House of Commons with the appropriation accounts of navy and army services for the year, in order that such proceedings may be submitted for the sanction of Parliament, and that provision may be made for the deficiencies upon the several votes for the said services in such manner as Parliament may determine.
The Commissioners of the Treasury shall not authorise any expenditure which may cause an excess upon the aggregate sums appropriated by this Act for naval services and for army services respectively.
5 Sanction for navy and army expenditure for 1868-9 unprovided for.
5. Whereas the Commissioners of the Treasury, under the powers vested in them by the Act of the session held in the thirty-first and thirty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-five, have authorised expenditure not provided for in the sums appropriated to naval and military services by the said Act to be temporarily defrayed out of surpluses so far as such surpluses will extend which have arisen by the saving of expenditure upon votes within the same department for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, as follows:
1st. One hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty-seven pounds ten shillings and threepence for navy services unprovided for in the grants for navy services for the said year, temporarily defrayed to the extent of one hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty-seven pounds ten shillings and threepence out of surpluses to the said last-mentioned amount, which have arisen upon certain votes for navy services for the same year:
2d. Three hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred and forty-seven pounds seven shillings and elevenpence for army services unprovided for in the grants for army services for the said year, temporarily defrayed to the extent of three hundred and one thousand nine hundred pounds three shillings and eightpence out of surpluses to the said last-mentioned amount, which have arisen upon certain votes for army services for the same year, and by the application of the sum of thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven pounds four shillings and threepence, being the sum which has been realised in excess of the estimated appropriations in aid, the said two sums making together the sum of three hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred and forty-seven pounds seven shillings and elevenpence:
It is enacted that the application of the said sums to cover the said deficiencies is hereby sanctioned.
Permanent Regulations as to certain Payments.
6 Regulations as to half pay.
6. The following regulations shall be observed with respect to the application of any sum granted by this Act, or by any Act that may hereafter be passed for the half pay of officers of Her Majesty's forces; that is to say,
(1) (1.) No person shall receive any half pay who,
(a .) Was under the age of sixteen years at the time when the regiment, troop, or company in which he served was reduced; or
(b .) Did not do actual service in some regiment, battalion, troop, or company in Her Majesty's service, except in cases in which the commission was received under circumstances which did not, according to the regulations of the Army, require the officer to serve; or
(c .) Has resigned his commission, and has had no commission since such resignation:
(2) (2.) No part of any sum granted for half pay as aforesaid shall be allowed to any person by virtue of any warrant or appointment, except to such person as would have been otherwise entitled thereto as a reduced officer:
(3) (3.) No person shall receive any part of any sum granted for half pay for any time during which he holds any other military employment of profit under Her Majesty or in Her Majesty's colonies or possessions beyond the seas, except the holders of any staff or garrison appointments or appointments in the militia, yeomanry, volunteer, or other reserve forces of Her Majesty, who may, with Her Majesty's approbation, signified by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, receive the half pay to which they would respectively be entitled if they held no military employment of profit under Her Majesty:
(4) (4.) No person shall receive any part of any sum granted for half pay for any time during which he holds any civil employment of profit under Her Majesty, or in Her Majesty's colonies or possessions beyond the seas, except as hereafter mentioned, that is to say:
(a .) Such persons as hold appointments in Her Majesty's household may receive the full amount of their half pay:
(b .) Where the annual emoluments of any civil employment of profit held by any person entitled to half pay do not exceed three times the amount of the highest...
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