Imprest Supply Act 1927
Imprest Supply Act 1927
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Imprest Supply Act 1927
Public Act |
1927 No 2 |
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Date of assent |
29 June 1927 |
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Contents
An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account and other Accounts to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Imprest Supply Act, 1927.
2 Imprest grants.
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,—
(a)
Out of the respective funds and accounts (being part of the Public Account) specified in the First Schedule hereto, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole two million nine hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and fifty pounds, as set forth in that Schedule:
(b)
Out of the respective accounts mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto, the respective sums therein set forth, not exceeding in the whole forty-nine thousand two hundred pounds.
3 To be charged as expressed in future Act.
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.
4 Authorizing payment to local authorities of subsidies in respect of amounts expended in relief of unemployment.
(1)
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.
(2)
The aggregate amount paid under this section shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
(3)
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.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
| £ | |||
| The Consolidated Fund— | |||
| Ordinary Revenue Account | 1,250,000 | ||
| The Public Works Fund— | |||
| General Purposes Account | 450,000 | ||
| Electric Supply Account | 175,000 | ||
| Separate Accounts— | |||
| Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account | 10,000 | ||
| Land for Settlements Account | 250 | ||
| Land for Settlements Account— | |||
| Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account | 1,750 | ||
| Opening up Crown Lands for Settlement Account | 2,000 | ||
| Main Highways Account— | |||
| Main Highways Revenue Fund | 100,000 | ||
| Main Highways Construction Fund | 100,000 | ||
| Native Land Settlement Account | 350 | ||
| State Coal-mines Account | 37,500 | ||
| State Forests Account | 30,000 | ||
| Westport Harbour Account | 4,500 | ||
| Working Railways Account | 750,000 | ||
| £2,911,350 | |||
SECOND SCHEDULE
| £ | ||
| The Government Insurance Account | 10,000 | |
| The Government Accident Insurance Account | 1,000 | |
| The State Fire Insurance Account | 5,750 | |
| The Public Service Superannuation Fund Account | 800 | |
| The Public Trustee’s Account | 23,000 | |
| The Native Trustee’s Account | 1,300 | |
| The State Advances Account— | ||
| Advances to Settlers Branch | 4,750 | |
| Advances to Workers Branch | 1,100 | |
| Advances to Local Authorities Branch | 150 | |
| Rural Advances Branch | 100 | |
| Miscellaneous Business Branch | 1,250 | |
| £49,200 | ||
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