This Act may be cited as the Imprest Supply Act, 1927.

In addition to all sums otherwise granted, there may be issued and applied, by way of imprest, towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,—

The aforesaid sums shall be charged in the manner hereafter to be expressed in any Act or Acts passed in this present session of Parliament for appropriating the public revenues of the Dominion for the year ending the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Where any local authority within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, has, whether before or after the passing of this Act, provided work in relief of unemployment the Minister of Finance may, without further appropriation than this section, pay to such local authority, out of the Ordinary Revenue Account of the Consolidated Fund, such amount as he thinks fit, by way of subsidy on the amount expended by the local authority as wages in respect of such work at any time since the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

The aggregate amount paid under this section shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

All moneys received by a local authority under this section shall be applied in relief of unemployment on such public works as may be approved for the purpose by the Minister of Public Works, and shall be so applied in accordance with such conditions (if any) as that Minister may impose.