No. 14/1923:

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SALARY AND ESTABLISHMENT ACT, 1923

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Payment of £10,000 yearly to the Governor-General.

2 Maintenance of official residence and establishment.

3 Short Title.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE SALARY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE IRISH FREE STATE AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE AND ESTABLISHMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN.

[10th May, 1923.]

WHEREAS Dáil Eireann has resolved and by Article 60 of the Constitution of Saorstát Eireann provided that the salary of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State shall be of the like amount as that payable at the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution aforesaid to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and shall be charged on the public funds of Saorstát Eireann:

AND WHEREAS Dáil Eireann has also resolved and by the said Article 60 provided that suitable provision shall be made out of the public funds aforesaid for the maintenance of the official residence and establishment of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that specific provision should be made for the payment out of the public funds aforesaid of the salary of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State and the maintenance of his official residence and establishment pursuant to the said Article 60:

AND WHEREAS the amount of the salary which, at the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution of Saorstát Eireann, was payable to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia was the yearly sum of £10,000:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

1.—The yearly sum of ten thousand pounds commencing on the sixth day of December, 1922, shall be charged upon and payable by equal quarterly payments out of the Central Fund of Saorstát Eireann or the growing produce thereof to the Governor-General for the time being of the Irish Free State, by way of salary so long as every such Governor-General shall continue to hold that office.

2.—There shall be paid by the Minister for Finance out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas such yearly or other sum or sums as the Minister for finance may from time to time determine to be suitable provision for the maintenance as from the 6th day of December, 1922, of the official residence and establishment of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

3.—This Act may be cited as the Governor-General's Salary and Establishment Act, 1923 .