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CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816

CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816 - LONG TITLE

An Act to unite and consolidate into One Fund all the Public
Revenues of Great Britain and Ireland, and to provide for the
Application thereof to the General Service of the United Kingdom.
[1st July 1816]
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:[

CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816 - SECT 1
Consolidated funds of Great Britain and Ireland shall become one
general consolidated fund.

1.] 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 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.

CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816 - SECT 2
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
or liable to under and 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.

CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816 - SECT 3
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. 412 rep. by SLR 1873

CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816 - SECT 13
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;....

S.14 rep. by SL(R) 1978

CONSOLIDATED FUND ACT 1816 - SECT 15
Sanction of lord lieutenant equivalent to that required heretofore by
Irish Treasury (except in revenue cases).

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.

S.16 rep. by 1937 c.38 s.11(2) sch.4. S.17 rep. by SLR 1873. S.18
rep. by SL(R) 1978. Ss.1921 rep. by SLR 1873. S.22 rep. by 1968
c.13 s.24 sch.6 Pt.I. Ss.2328 rep. by SLR 1873