Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1901-1910; Land tenure -- Ireland
(5) All sums payable by virtue of this Act out of the Consolidated Fund of
the United Kingdom or of Ireland shall be payable from the Exchequer of
the United Kingdom or of Ireland shall be payable from the Exchequer of
the United Kingdom or Ireland, as the case may be, within the meaning of
this Act, and all sums by this Act made payable from the Exchequer of the
United Kingdom shall, if not otherwise paid, be charged on and paid out of
the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.
[Sidenote: Charges on Irish Consolidated Fund.]
=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 sums which--
(_a_) Are payable to that Exchequer from the Irish Exchequer; or
[Sidenote: 54 & 55 Vict. c. 48.]
(_b_) Are required to repay to the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
sums issued to meet the dividends or sinking fund or 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--
[Sidenote: 54 & 55 Vict. c. 48.]
(_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.
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