BE it enacted by the King'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:
Superannuation.
Division of officers and servants into classes.                                                           1.—(1) For the purposes of this Act the established officers and servants employed in asylums shall be divided into two classes. The first class shall consist of all those established officers and servants who have the care or charge of the patients in the usual course of their employment. The second class shall include all other established officers and servants.

(2) The division of established officers and servants into classes shall be made by the visiting committee of each asylum, with the consent of the local authority, and the visiting committee shall affix in a conspicuous place in the asylum a notice with respect to such division into classes.

Title of officers, servants, &c., to superannuation allowances, and scale thereof.                        2. Subject to the provisions of this Act—
(1) Any established officer or servant of the first class who has been in the service of an asylum for not less than twenty years, and is not less than fifty-five years old, or who is permanently incapacitated for asylum duties after ten years’ service by injury or illness, mental or bodily, medically certified and not attributable to his own misconduct, shall be entitled, on resigning or otherwise ceasing to hold office or employment, to receive during life or incapacity a superannuation allowance, the annual amount of which shall be computed at the rate of one fiftieth of his salary or wages and emoluments for each completed year of service:
(2) Any established officer or servant of the second class who has been in the service of an asylum for not less than twenty years and is not less than sixty years old, or who is permanently incapacitated for asylum duties after ten years’ service by injury or illness, mental or bodily, medically certified and not attributable to his own misconduct, shall be entitled, on resigning or otherwise ceasing to hold office or employment, to receive during life a superannuation allowance the annual amount of which shall be computed at the rate of one sixtieth of his salary or wages and emoluments for each completed year of service:
(3) The visiting committee of any asylum may, in computing the amount of superannuation allowance to any established officer or servant, take into account any peculiar professional qualifications or services or special circumstances entitling to consideration and, with the consent of the Secretary of State, add a number of years not exceeding ten to the number of years which the officer or servant has actually served in the aggregate:
(4) Where an established officer or servant of an asylum is injured—
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty; and
(b) without his own default; and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty;
and is permanently incapacitated for asylum duties as the result of such injury, the visiting committee of such asylum may grant to him such gratuity or special superannuation allowance as they may consider reasonable:
Provided that a superannuation allowance shall not in any case exceed two-thirds of the salary or wages and emoluments of the superannuated person, and a gratuity granted under this section shall not exceed one year's salary or wages and emoluments of the person to whom it is granted.

Duty of visiting committee in cases where superannuation allowances are granted on ground of incapacity.  3.—(1) Where an established officer or servant is entitled to receive, or is granted a superannuation allowance, on the ground of incapacity for the performance of his duty, the visiting committee of the asylum shall, yearly or otherwise, until the power under this Act of requiring such officer or servant to serve again ceases, satisfy themselves that the incapacity continues, and, unless they resolve that such evidence is unnecessary, shall satisfy themselves by the evidence of a legally qualified medical practitioner selected by the visiting committee.

(2) In the event of the incapacity ceasing before the time at which the officer or servant would if he had continued to serve have been entitled without a medical certificate to retire and receive a superannuation allowance for life, the visiting committee of the asylum may cancel his superannuation allowance and require him to serve again in the asylum at a rate of pay and emoluments (if any) not less than the rate which he received before his retirement.
(3) Where an established officer or servant so serves again, the provisions of this Act as to retirement and superannuation allowances, gratuities, and contributions shall apply as if he had not previously retired, save that the time which elapsed between his former retirement and the commencement of his service again shall not be reckoned as service.

Power to grant gratuities to dependants in case of death of officer or servant.                           4. It shall be competent for the visiting committee with the consent of the local authority to grant at their discretion, and on such terms as they think fit—
(a) In the case of an established officer or servant dying while in the service of the asylum who, if he had retired at the time of his death, would have been entitled to a superannuation allowance, a gratuity to his widow or children; and
(b) In the case of an established officer or servant dying (whilst in the service of the asylum) to whom, if he had survived, a special superannuation allowance might have been granted, an annual allowance or a gratuity to his widow or children:
Provided that a gratuity granted under this section shall not exceed his total contributions, or one year's salary or wages and emoluments, whichever is the larger amount, and that an annual allowance granted under this clause shall not exceed two-thirds of his salary or wages and emoluments.

Forfeiture for fraud, &c.                                                                                5. An established officer or servant who is dismissed or resigns or otherwise ceases to hold office in consequence of any offence of a fraudulent character or of grave misconduct, shall forfeit all claim to any superannuation allowance under this Act in respect of his previous service, provided that the visiting committee of the asylum in which he was last employed may in special cases, if they see fit, return a sum equal to the amount of all or part of his aggregate contributions under this Act.

Reckoning service.                                                                                6. Subject as herein-after provided all services by an established officer or servant in an asylum shall be aggregated and reckoned for the purposes of this Act, whether the services have been continuous or not, and whether they have been rendered at one or more asylums: Provided that, where an officer or servant of an asylum has removed to another asylum, not being an asylum provided by the same local authority, his services in the first asylum shall not be so aggregated and reckoned unless they amount to at least two years’ service, and, in the case of an officer or servant who has removed to another asylum after the commencement of this Act, unless he has removed with the written sanction of the visiting committee of the asylum from which he removed.

Case of subsequent appointment.                                                                           7. If an established officer or servant, in receipt of superannuation allowance under this Act, is appointed to any office or employment by any authority to which this Act applies, or to an office or employment remunerated out of money provided by Parliament, or out of a county or borough rate or fund, or out of any parochial, district, or other rate, he shall not, while holding that office or employment, receive more of the superannuation allowance than, together with the remuneration of that office or employment, is equal to the remuneration of the office or employment in respect of which the superannuation allowance was awarded.

Any such person on ceasing to hold such office or employment shall be entitled to revert to and receive the full amount of his original superannuation allowance from the visiting committee which granted it.

Contribution.
Obligation of officers and servants to contribute.                                                        8. Subject to the provisions of this Act, every established officer and servant employed in an asylum shall contribute annually, for the purpose of this Act, a percentage amount of his salary or wages and emoluments, according to the scale laid down in this Act, such amount to be from time to time deducted from the salary or wages payable to him and to be carried to and to form part of the fund from which the superannuation allowances are to be paid.

Scale of contributions.                                                                                9. The percentage amounts to be deducted annually for the purposes of this Act shall be as follows (that is to say):—
In the case of officers and servants with less than five years’ service at the passing of this Act, two per cent, of the salary or wages and emoluments for each year;
In the case of officers and servants with more than five and less than fifteen years’ service at the passing of this Act, two and a half per cent. of the salary or wages and emoluments for each year;
In the case of officers and servants with more than fifteen years’ service at the passing of this Act, or appointed after the passing of this Act, three per cent. of the salary or wages and emoluments for each year.

Return of contributions in certain cases.                                                                 10.—(1) An established officer or servant who has not become entitled to a superannuation allowance, and who loses his office or employment by reason of reduction of staff, or of any other cause whatever other than his own misconduct or voluntary resignation, shall be entitled to receive the aggregate amount of his contributions under this Act.

(2) The visiting committee of an asylum may, if they think fit, repay to any female officer or servant leaving to be married after not less than three years’ service, the amount of her contributions under this Act, provided that within three months after leaving she produces to the visiting committee her marriage certificate.
(3) If an officer or servant who has received his contributions under this section subsequently obtains a fresh office or employment in an asylum, he shall not be entitled to reckon his service before obtaining such fresh office or employment towards a superannuation allowance under this Act, unless, upon obtaining such fresh office or employment, he repays the amount so received to the visiting committee from whom he received it.

Miscellaneous.
Provision for retiring officers and servants in certain cases.                                            11. When an established officer or servant of the first class has attained the age of fifty-five, or an established officer or servant of the second class has attained the age of sixty, and the visiting committee of the asylum in which he is employed are of opinion that his retirement would be expedient in the interests of the service, it shall be competent for them to require him to retire upon payment to him of the superannuation allowance to which he may be entitled under this Act:
Provided that nothing in this section shall prejudice the existing right of any visiting committee to dismiss any officer or servant employed in an asylum, or to reduce him to a lower rate of pay, or shall prevent his claim to superannuation allowance from being refused in any case where under this Act a claim to superannuation allowance is forfeited.

Payment of allowances and gratuities.                                                                     12. Every superannuation allowance or gratuity under this Act shall be paid by the visiting committee of the asylum in which the officer or servant to whom, or to whose widow or children, the superannuation allowance or gratuity is payable was employed at the time of his superannuation or death, and shall be paid out of the fund out of which the salary or wages and emoluments of the officer or servant is or has been paid, and the weekly sum fixed by the visiting committee under section two hundred and eighty-three of the Lunacy Act, 1890, shall be of such amount that the total of such weekly sums shall be sufficient to pay all such superannuation allowances or gratuities in addition to the expenses of maintenance and salaries payable out of such sums under that section:
53 & 54 Vict. c. 5.
Provided that, where an established officer or servant of an asylum has removed to some other asylum under such circumstances as entitle him to aggregate his services in such first mentioned asylum with his services in such last mentioned asylum and in due course becomes entitled to and is awarded a superannuation allowance, the visiting committee in whose service he then is shall be entitled to call upon the other visiting committee or committees with whom he shall have served, and they shall contribute a proportionate part of the superannuation allowance to such officer or servant reckoned according to the service and pay of such officer or servant during his service in such asylum, and the said proportionate part shall be settled by agreement between the visiting committees, or in default of agreement, by the Secretary of State.

Saving of liabilities in respect of contributions to allowances.                                          13. Where, by virtue of any award made under section sixty-two of the Local Government Act, 1888, or section two hundred and forty-four of the Lunacy Act, 1890, any liability is imposed on any county council or the council of any county borough to contribute to any superannuation allowances granted to any officer or servant of an asylum, such liability shall, unless and until otherwise provided by subsequent award, agreement, or otherwise, continue in the same manner and to the same extent as if this Act had not been passed: Provided that any sums payable under any such award in respect of superannuation allowances granted under this Act shall be paid to the visiting committee of any such asylum in lieu of the county council or the council of any county borough to whom the same would otherwise be payable.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.
53 & 54 Vict. c. 5.
Assignment                                                                                14. The following provisions shall have effect with respect to every superannuation allowance, allowance, and gratuity (in this section referred to as a “grant”) payable by the visiting committee of an asylum to any person (in this section referred to as the “pensioner”):—
(1) Every assignment of and charge on a grant, and every agreement to assign or charge a grant, shall, except so far as made for the benefit of the family of the pensioner, be void, and on the bankruptcy of the pensioner the grant shall not pass to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the creditors:
(2) Where any parochial relief is given to a pensioner or to anyone whom he is liable to maintain, the visiting committee of an asylum may pay the whole or any part of the grant to the guardians or other authority giving the relief, and the same, when so paid, may be applied in repayment of any sums expended in such relief, and, subject thereto, shall be paid or applied by the guardians or other authority to or for the benefit of the pensioner:
(3) If the pensioner neglects to maintain any person whom he is liable to maintain, the visiting committee of an asylum may in their discretion pay or apply the whole or any part of the grant to or for the benefit of that person:
(4) If the pensioner appears to the visiting committee of an asylum to be insane or otherwise incapacitated to act, the visiting committee of the asylum may pay so much of the grant as the visiting committee of the asylum think fit to the institution or person having the care of the pensioner, and may pay the surplus (if any) or such part thereof as the visiting committee think fit for or towards the maintenance and benefit of the wife or relatives of the pensioner:
(5) On the death of a pensioner to whom a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds is due on account of a grant, then, if the visiting committee of the asylum so direct, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representative of the deceased may be dispensed with, and the sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the visiting committee of the asylum to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of the deceased pensioner, or to or among any one or more of those persons, or, in case of the illegitimacy of the deceased pensioner, to or among such persons as the visiting committee of the asylum may think fit, and the visiting committee of the asylum, and any officer of the visiting committee making the payment, shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution:
(6) Any sum payable to a minor on account of a grant may be paid either to the minor or to such person and on such conditions for the benefit of the minor as to the visiting committee of the asylum seems expedient:
(7) Where a payment is made to any person by the visiting committee of an asylum in pursuance of this section, the receipt of that person shall be a good discharge for the sum so paid:
(8) The visiting committee of an asylum may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, make rules with respect to declarations to be taken for any purpose relating to grants payable by them, and, while any such rules so made are in force, a person shall not be entitled to receive any sums in respect of a grant payable by such visiting committee until any declaration required by those rules has been made. Any person who makes a wilful misstatement of material fact in any such declaration shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three calendar months.

Appeal in cases of dispute.                                                                               15. In the case of any dispute as to the right to superannuation allowance of any officer or servant of an asylum, or as to the amount of the superannuation allowance to which any such officer or servant is entitled, such dispute shall be determined by the Secretary of State, whose decision shall be final.

Salary or wages and “emoluments.”                                                                         16. The salary or wages and emoluments of an established officer or servant shall, for the purpose of computing the amount of a superannuation allowance or gratuity, be calculated according to the average amount of his salary or wages and emoluments during the ten years ending on the quarter day which immediately precedes the day on which he ceases to hold his office or employment, or, in the case of an officer or servant with less than ten years’ service, on the average amount during his whole period of service; and the expression “emoluments” includes all fees, poundage and other payments made to any established officer or servant as such for his own use, and also the money value of any apartments, rations, or other allowances in kind appertaining to his office or employment.

The annual money value of all such fees, poundage and other payments, apartments, rations, or other allowances in kind shall be set out in a schedule to be prepared by the visiting committee of every asylum and affixed in a conspicuous place in the asylum.

Interpretation.                                                                                17.—(1) In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—
“Asylum” means (1) an asylum for lunatics provided by a county or borough, or by a union of counties or boroughs; (2) a Metropolitan Asylums Board asylum for imbeciles;
“Established officer or servant” means such officer or servant employed in a permanent capacity as has the care or charge of the patients or whom the visiting committee of an asylum shall by resolution determine to be an established officer or servant;
“Local authority” means the local authority by which an asylum is provided, or, in the case of an asylum provided by two or more local authorities, those local authorities, and, in the case of an asylum provided by the Lancashire Asylums Board, that Board.

(2) In the case of an asylum provided or maintained by the Lancashire Asylums Board, for references in this Act to the visiting committee of an asylum there shall be substituted references to that Board, or a visiting committee appointed by that Board, as the case may be.
(3) In the case of an asylum for imbeciles provided or maintained by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, for references in this Act to the visiting committee of an asylum there shall be substituted references to the Board of Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District, and for references to the Secretary of State there shall be substituted references to the Local Government Board.

Application to Scotland.                                                                                18. This Act shall come into operation in Scotland on the fifteenth day of May nineteen hundred and ten, and, if not inconsistent with the context, in the application of this Act to Scotland—
20 & 21 Vict. c. 71.
“Asylum” means a district asylum, and “visiting committee” means a district board within the meaning of the Lunacy (Scotland) Acts, 1857 to 1887;
References to the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland shall be substituted for references to the Secretary of State and also for references to the local authority;
A reference to the weekly charge for pauper lunatics fixed and approved from time to time pursuant to section seventy-three of the Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1857, shall be substituted for the reference to the weekly sum fixed by the visiting committee under section two hundred and eighty-three of the Lunacy Act, 1890;
The expression “established officer or servant” has the meaning in this Act assigned thereto, but shall not include an officer or servant who does not devote his whole time to the duties of his office:
Provided that this Act shall apply to the Greenock parochial asylum and the Kirklands asylum as if they were district asylums, and the respective managing bodies thereof were district boards.

Application to Ireland.                                                                                19. In the application of this Act to Ireland—
61 & 62 Vict. c. 37.
“Asylum” means a district or auxiliary asylum;
References to the Lord Lieutenant shall be substituted for references to the Secretary of State;
References to local authorities shall not apply;
References to a committee or a joint committee, as the case may be, appointed under section nine of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, shall be substituted for references to a visiting committee;
The reference to parochial relief shall be construed as a reference to union relief.

A requirement to retire under section eleven of this Act shall, in its application to an established officer or servant who is an existing officer within the meaning of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, be subject to the approval of the Lord Lieutenant.

Repeals.                                                                                20.—(1) The enactments specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column thereof, subject to this qualification, that this repeal shall not affect the payment of any superannuation allowance granted before the commencement of this Act.

59 & 60 Vict. c. 50.
Any established officer or servant employed in an asylum at the date of the commencement of this Act may, at any time within three months after the commencement of this Act, signify in writing to the visiting committee of the asylum his intention not to avail himself of the provisions of this Act, and in that event it shall not be obligatory on him, notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, to make any contribution, or submit to any deduction from his salary or wages, under this Act, nor shall he be entitled to receive any superannuation allowance, gratuity, or other benefit under this Act; but any such established officer or servant of an asylum who has given such notice as aforesaid shall remain subject to the provisions of the enactments repealed by this Act or, in the case of an officer or servant of the Metropolitan Asylums Board to the Poor Law Officers’ Superannuation Act, 1896, with respect to the superannuation allowances of officers and servants in asylums as if this Act had not been passed. After the expiration of three months from the commencement of this Act, the Poor Law Officers’ Superannuation Act, 1896, shall cease to apply to any established officer or servant employed in an asylum who has not, in the manner provided by this section, signified his intention not to avail himself of the provisions of this Act.

(2) Any officer or servant of the asylum who is at the date of the commencement of this Act in the service of a visiting committee of an asylum to which this Act applies, and who is not, or is not determined to be, an established officer or servant within the meaning of this Act, shall remain subject to the provisions of the enactments repealed by this Act with respect to the superannuation allowances of officers and servants in asylums as if this Act had not been passed.

Short title and commencement of Act.                                                                      21. This Act may be cited as the Asylums Officers’ Superannuation Act, 1909, and, except in Scotland, shall come into operation on the first day of April nineteen hundred and ten.

SCHEDULE.
Section 20.
Session and Chapter.   Title or Short Title.                                           Extent of Repeal.

19 & 20 Vict. c. 99.   The Lunatic Asylums Superannuations (Ireland) Act, 1856.        The whole Act so far as unrepealed.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 118.  The Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1867.                                 Section eight.

53 Vict. c. 5. -       Lunacy Act, 1890 - -                                            Sections two hundred and eighty, two hundred and eighty-one, and two hundred and eighty-two.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 31.   The Pauper Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Superannuation Act, 1890.  The whole Act so far as unrepealed.


Consolidated funds of Great Britain and Ireland shall become one general consolidated fund.

Application thereof.
WHEREAS it hath become expedient, for further carrying into effect the provisions and purposes of two several Acts for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland (the one made in the Parliament of Great Britain in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of his present Majesty's reign, and the other made in the Parliament of Ireland in the fortieth year of his said Majesty's reign), that all the public revenues of Great Britain and Ireland should be consolidated and applied to the service of the United Kingdom: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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, that all rates, duties, taxes, receipts, sums of money, and revenues of what nature or kind soever, which under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively at the time of the passing of this Act, and immediately before the said fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, shall or may constitute or form part of or be directed to be carried to the several funds called the consolidated fund of Great Britain and the consolidated fund of Ireland respectively, shall be carried to and shall be and become and shall form and constitute one general fund, to be called the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and that the said consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, whether the same or any part thereof shall be in the Exchequer of Great Britain or in the Exchequer of Ireland, shall in the first place, be charged and chargeable with and shall from time to time be applied indiscriminately to the payment of the whole of the interest of the national debts of Great Britain and Ireland, and the sinking funds applicable to the reduction thereof, as one joint consolidated national debt, interest, and sinking fund; and in the next place the said consolidated fund of the said United Kingdom shall in like manner be charged and chargeable with and shall be applied to the payment of the salaries and other charges of his Majesty's civil list establishments in Great Britain and Ireland; and in the next place the said consolidated fund of the said United Kingdom shall be in like manner charged and chargeable with and shall be applied in payment of all other charges whatsoever made payable out of the consolidated funds of Great Britain or Ireland respectively, under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in force immediately before the said fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; and after payment and satisfaction of all the aforesaid charges the said consolidated fund of the United Kingdom shall be in like manner indiscriminately applied to the service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any part thereof, as shall be directed by Parliament, and shall be issued and applied accordingly, in manner and under the authority herein-after mentioned and directed.

Offices of treasurer of Great Britain and treasurer of Ireland shall be united, and may be executed by commissioners.                                                             2. The offices of lord high treasurer of Great Britain and lord high treasurer of Ireland shall be united into one office, and the person holding the same shall be called lord high treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and whenever there shall not be any such lord high treasurer, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty by letters patent under the great seal of Great Britain to appoint commissioners for executing the offices of treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and lord high treasurer of Ireland; and such commissioners shall be called commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and the said commissioners shall have all such powers and authorities in and through the whole of the said United Kingdom with respect to the collection, issuing, and application of the whole revenues of the United Kingdom, as at the time of the passing of this Act, and immediately before the said fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, are or shall or may be vested in the commissioners of the Treasury in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, by any Act or Acts of Parliament, or by any law, usage, or custom in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, by whatever names or descriptions such commissioners of the Treasury shall or may have been at any time known or described, save and except in so far as any such powers or authorities may be altered or amended by this Act; and all officers and other persons concerned or employed in the collection or management of the revenues in and through every part of the United Kingdom shall be in all respects subject to the orders and controul of the said lord high treasurer or the said commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be liable to all such penalties and punishments for disobedience of such orders, as they are or would be subject of liable to under or by virtue of any Acts, laws, usages, or customs, with respect to the powers of the commissioners of the Treasury, in force in Great Britain and Ireland respectively at the time of the passing of this Act and immediately before the said fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

Officers of the revenue shall be subject to the orders of the Treasury of the United Kingdom.

The words “Commissioners of Treasury,” &c. to apply to commissioners for executing the offices of treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and treasurer of Ireland.           3. Whenever in this Act or in any Act to be made at any time after the passing of this Act the words “Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury,” or the words “Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,” are or shall be used, the same shall be construed, to extend and apply to the commissioners for executing the offices of treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and lord high treasurer of Ireland, whenever such commission shall be in force; and that all and every act and acts which at any time shall or may have been done or executed or shall or may be done or executed by the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury in Great Britain or Ireland, or the United Kingdom respectively, under or by virtue or authority of any law, statute, usage, or custom in force before the passing of this Act, shall be good, valid, and effectual to all intents and purposes, notwithstanding any error or omission in the names or descriptions whereby any such commissioners of the Treasury shall or may have been at any time known, or named, or described.

[Ss. 4–12 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]
British commissioners shall be commissioners for the reduction of the national debt of the United Kingdom.                                                                        13. . . . the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt of Great Britain shall be and become commissioners for the reduction of the national debt of the United Kingdom; and the said commissioners shall have all such powers and authorities as are or may be given in and by any Act or Acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland, relative to the reduction of the national debt of Great Britain or the national debt of Ireland; . . .

Two additional commissioners of the Treasury to be appointed.                                                                                14. In consequence of the increase of business which will result from the provisions of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty to nominate and appoint two persons to be commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to sit and act as such, with and in addition to the number of commissioners which may now by law be appointed for the executing the office of treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain, . . with a yearly salary not exceeding for each of such commissioners such salary as is now received by each of the said commissioners for executing the said office of treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain, . . any thing in an Act made in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled “An Act for the securing of her Majesty's “person and government, and of the succession to the Crown of “Great Britain in the protestant line,” or in any other Act or Acts to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

6 Ann. c. 41.
Signature and sanction of the lord lieutenant shall (except in revenue cases) be sufficient, where signature or sanction of Irish commissioners of Treasury heretofore required.  15. In all cases not otherwise specially provided for by this Act, where under the provisions of any Act or Acts, in force immediately before the passing of this Act any warrant, licence, order, or document has been required to be signed by the commissioners for executing the office of lord high treasurer of Ireland (except in cases relating to the revenue of Ireland), a warrant or other proper document, as the case may be, signed by the lord lieutenant shall be of like validity, force, and effect, as any such warrant, licence, order, or document of such commissioners, to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and in all cases where by any Act or Acts in force in Ireland the approbation of the said commissioners for executing the office of lord high treasurer of Ireland has been required or made necessary (except as aforesaid) the approbation of the lord lieutenant, signified by his chief secretary, or in the absence of such chief secretary, by the under secretary for the civil or military department, as the case may require, shall be of like validity, force, and effect, as the approbation of such commissioners, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Commissioners of the Treasury may sit in Parliament.                                                                                16. The appointment or any person or persons to be commissioner or commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not be deemed or taken to be an appointment or appointments to a new office or new offices, or place or places of profit under the crown; and any person so to be appointed one of the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not be thereby disabled from sitting or voting as a member of the House of Commons, nor shall he be thereby rendered incapable of being elected a member of the House of Commons, any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

[S. 17 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]
Powers of Irish Act, 35 Geo. 3. c. 28., for regulating receipts and issues of Irish Treasury, continued in force, except as altered by this Act.                                  18. All the provisions, rules, regulations, and directions contained in the Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the thirty-fifth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled “An Act for the better regulation of the receipts and issues of his Majesty's Treasury, and for repealing an Act of Parliament passed in the tenth year of Henry the Seventh, intituled ‘An’ Act authorising the treasurer to make all officers as the treasurer of England doth,’” shall be and remain and continue in full force and effect, except only so far as any of the said provisions, rules, regulations, and directions are altered by this Act, or by any other Act or Acts in force immediately before the passing of this Act: Provided always, that in all cases where any powers or authorities are by the said recited Act given to the commissioners for executing the officer of lord high treasurer of Ireland, such powers and authorities shall be vested in and exercised by the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Powers of the Irish Treasury to be exercised by the Treasury of the United Kingdom.

[Ss. 19–1 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]
Certain public accounts to be annually prepared and laid before Parliament.                                                                                22. The Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being shall annually cause an account of the total income of the said United Kingdom, including all duties of customs, excise, stamps, and incidents in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, and all other the ordinary revenues and extraordinary resources of the said United Kingdom, to be prepared and made out for one year, ending on the fifth day of January in each year, together with an account of the income of the consolidated fund of the said United Kingdom, for every such year, and also of the actual payments thereout within the said year, and of the future annual charge upon the said fund as the same stood on that day; and also an account of the net produce of all the permanent taxes of the said United Kingdom within the said year; and also an account of the arrears and balances due from all public accountants on the said fifth day of January in each year; and also an account of the exports and imports of the said United Kingdom, and of the shipping registered in or belonging to the several ports of his Majesty's dominions within the said years; and also an account of the public expenditure of the said United Kingdom, within the said year; and also an account of the public funded debt of the said United Kingdom, and the reduction thereof; and also an account of the unfunded and outstanding debt of the said United Kingdom, as the same stood respectively on the fifth day of January in each year; and also an account shewing how the monies given for the service of the said United Kingdom for the year preceding the said fifth day of January have been disposed of; and the said commissioners shall in each year cause such accounts to be laid before both Houses of Parliament on or before the twenty-fifth day of March in each year, if Parliament shall be then sitting, or if Parliament shall not then be sitting, within fourteen days after the next sitting of Parliament.

[Ss. 23–28 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]