A Leap in the Dark: A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the; Bill of 1893Dicey, A. V. (Albert Venn)
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A Leap in the Dark: A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the; Bill of 1893
Dicey, A. V. (Albert Venn)
Home rule -- Ireland
14.--(1) There shall be charged on the Irish Consolidated Fund in favour
of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom as a first charge on that fund
all sums which--
(_a_) are payable to that Exchequer from the Irish Exchequer; or
(_b_) are required to repay to the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
sums issued to meet the dividends or sinking fund on guaranteed
land stock under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891, or (_c_)
otherwise have been or are required to be paid out of the Exchequer
of the United Kingdom in consequence of the non-payment thereof out
of the Exchequer of Ireland or otherwise by the Irish Government.
(2) If at any time the Controller and Auditor-General of the United
Kingdom is satisfied that any such charge is due, he shall certify the
amount of it, and the Treasury shall send such certificate to the Lord
Lieutenant, who shall thereupon by order, without any counter-signature,
direct the payment of the amount from the Irish Exchequer to the
Exchequer of the United Kingdom, and such order shall be duly obeyed by
all persons, and until the amount is wholly paid no other payment shall
be made out of the Irish Exchequer for any purpose whatever.
(3) There shall be charged on the Irish Consolidated Fund next after the
foregoing charge:
(_a_) all sums, for dividends or sinking fund on guaranteed land
stock under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891, which the
Land Purchase Account and the Guarantee Fund under that Act are
insufficient to pay; (_b_) all sums due in respect of any debt
incurred by the Government of Ireland, whether for interest,
management, or sinking fund; (_c_) an annual sum of _five thousand_
pounds for the expenses of the household and establishment of the
Lord Lieutenant; (_d_) all existing charges on the Consolidated
Fund of the United Kingdom in respect of Irish services other than
the salary of the Lord Lieutenant; and (_e_) the salaries and
pensions of all judges of the Supreme Court or other superior court
in Ireland or of any county or other like court, who are appointed
after the passing of this Act, and are not the Exchequer judges
hereafter mentioned.
(4) Until all charges created by this Act upon the Irish Consolidated
Fund and for the time being due are paid, no money shall be issued from
the Irish Exchequer for any other purpose whatever.
15.--(1) All existing charges on the Church property in Ireland--that is
to say, all property accruing under the Irish Church Act, 1869, and
transferred to the Irish Land Commission by the Irish Church Amendment
Act, 1881--shall so far as not paid out of the said property be charged
on the Irish Consolidated Fund, and any of those charges guaranteed by
the Treasury, if and so far as not paid, shall be paid out of the
Exchequer of the United Kingdom.
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