Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924

Expenses of public services payable out of special funds.

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10.Wherever the expenses or any part of the expenses of any public service assigned by or under this Act to any Department of State are now payable out of any specific departmental or other public funds other than the Central Fund or moneys provided by the Oireachtas, or any specific departmental or other public funds other than as aforesaid are now applicable to or towards the discharge of the expenses or any part of the expenses of any such public service, it shall be lawful for the Executive Council by Order to do all or any of the following things:—

(a) to provide for the continued discharge of any such expenses as aforesaid or any part thereof out of the funds out of which the same are now payable or which are now applicable to or towards the discharge thereof;

(b) to make all such apportionments of public funds as may be rendered necessary by reason of the allotment by this Act of different portions of any such public service to different Departments of State;

(c) to provide for the winding-up and the payment into or disposal for the benefit of the Exchequer, in such manner as the Minister for Finance may appoint, of the whole or any part of the specific departmental or other public funds out of which such expenses or any part thereof have heretofore been payable or which have heretofore been applicable in or towards the discharge of such expenses or any part thereof as aforesaid, and to declare that such expenses shall hereafter be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

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Functions transferred and references to “Department of Finance” and “Minister for Finance” construed (29.07.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3, 5 and sch. 1 part 2, in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 6-9.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —

(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 1, and

(b) the statutory instruments specified in Schedule 2,

are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

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5. References to the Minister for Finance contained in any Act or instrument under an Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

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Schedule 1

Enactments

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Part 2

1922 to 2011 Enactments

Number and Year

Short Title

Provision

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(2)

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No. 16 of 1924

Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924

Sections 10 and 14

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Editorial Notes:

E41

Power pursuant to section exercised (30.05.1941) by Sea Fisheries Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1941 (S.I. No. 276 of 1941).

E42

Power pursuant to section exercised (27.03.1934) by National School Teachers' Pension Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1934 (S.I. No. 43 of 1934).

E43

Power pursuant to section exercised (27.03.1928) by General Cattle Diseases Fund (Cattle Pleuro-Pneumonia Account) (Winding-Up) Order 1928 (S.I. No. 11 of 1928).

E44

Power pursuant to section exercised (12.08.1927) by Forestry Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1927 (S.I. No. 70 of 1927).

E45

Power pursuant to section exercised (31.03.1925) by Intermediate Education Commissioners (Statutory Funds Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 18 of 1925), in effect as per signature.

E46

Power pursuant to section exercised (26.03.1925) by Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Winding-Up of a Fund For Congested Districts) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 21 of 1925).

E47

Power pursuant to section exercised (25.03.1925) by Endowment Fund (Final Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 20 of 1925).

E48

Power pursuant to section exercised (23.03.1925) by Development Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 15 of 1925).

E49

Power pursuant to section exercised (5.03.1925) by Endowment Fund (Second Apportionment and Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 13 of 1925).

E50

Power pursuant to section exercised (5.03.1925) by Endowment Fund (First Apportionment and Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 12 of 1925).