No. 276/1941:

SEA FISHERIES FUND (WINDING-UP) ORDER, 1941.

SEA FISHERIES FUND (WINDING-UP) ORDER, 1941.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 10 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, that whenever the expenses or any part of the expenses of any public service assigned by or under that Act to any Department of State were at the date of the passing of that Act payable out of any specific departmental or other public funds other than the Central Fund or moneys provided by the Oireachtas, or any specific departmental or other public funds other than as aforesaid were at the date of the passing of that Act applicable to or towards the discharge of the expenses or any part of the expenses of any such public service, it shall be lawful for the Government by order to provide for the winding-up and the payment into or disposal for the benefit of the Exchequer, in such manner as the Minister for Finance may appoint, of the whole or any part of the specific departmental or other public funds out of which such expenses or any part thereof had theretofore been payable or which had theretofore been applicable in or towards the discharge of such expenses or any part thereof as aforesaid, and to declare that such expenses shall thereafter be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas:

AND WHEREAS at the date of the commencement of the said Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , the expenses or a part of the expenses of a public service assigned by or under that Act to a Department of State were payable out of the Sea Fisheries Fund established under section 3 of the Sea Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1883:

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 10 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Sea Fisheries Fund (Winding-up) Order, 1941.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The Sea Fisheries Fund established under section 3 of the Sea Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1883, shall be wound up as on and from the 1st day of June, 1941, and any balance standing to the credit of the said Fund shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance may appoint.

4. Any expenses of a public service assigned by or under the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to a Department of State which were at the date of the passing of that Act payable out of the said Sea Fisheries Fund shall as on and from the 1st day of June, 1941, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Given under the Seal of the Government this 30th day of May, 1941.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.