No. 25/1924:

TEACHERS SALARIES GRANT (APPORTIONMENT) ORDER, 1924.

TEACHERS SALARIES GRANT (APPORTIONMENT) ORDER, 1924.

WHEREAS by Section 9 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) it is enacted that wherever under any British Statute any grant, whether annual or capital, is directed to be made by the Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund or by the Treasury or any other Government Department out of any other fund, and the amount of such grant is by such Statute fixed either for the whole of the late United Kingdom or for any part thereof which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister for Finance may by order apportion such amount between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which such amount is fixed as aforesaid and may by such order fix the amount of such grant to be made under such Statute in Saorstát Eireann :

AND WHEREAS by Section 2 of the British Statute entitled the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act, 1914, it is enacted that from and after the commencement of that Act there should be paid to the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland in each year out of moneys provided by Parliament a sum not exceeding forty thousand pounds, and that an amount equivalent to the sum so paid (in that Act referred to as the Teachers Salaries Grant) should be applied by the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland in manner provided by rules made under that Act :

AND WHEREAS the said sum of forty thousand pounds was fixed by the British Statute aforesaid for the whole of Ireland, being a part of the late United Kingdom which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann :

AND WHEREAS by the Intermediate Education Order, 1923 (No. 7 of 1923) made by the Executive Council in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred on them by Section 7 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) a board of commissioners to be called and known as the Intermediate Education Commissioners was established to exercise in Saorstát Eireann all the functions which were on the 6th day of December, 1921, exercisable in the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann by the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland :

AND WHEREAS it is necessary that the said sum of forty thousand pounds should be apportioned between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which the said sum was fixed as aforesaid and that the annual sum to be paid to the Intermediate Commissioners under the Statute aforesaid in Saorstát Eireann should be fixed :

NOW, I, Earnán de Blaghd, Minister for Finance in Saorstát Eireann, in exercise and by virtue of the power in this behalf vested in the Minister for Finance by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. The annual sum of £40,000 (forty thousand pounds) fixed by Section 2 of the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act, 1914, as the sum to be paid to the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland in each year out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, is hereby apportioned between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which the said sum was fixed by the said Act as follows, that is to say :—

(a) in respect of Saorstát Eireann, the sum of £30,750 (thirty thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds), and

(b) in respect of the rest of the area aforesaid, the sum of £9,250 (nine thousand two hundred and fifty pounds).

2. The annual sum to be paid in Saorstát Eireann to the Intermediate Education Commissioners under Section 2 of the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act, 1914, in lieu of the said annual sum of £40,000 (forty thousand pounds) shall be the sum of £30,750 (thirty thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds).

3. In this Order the expression " Saorstát Eireann " means the area for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Parliament and Government of Saorstát Eireann.

4. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

5. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the Teachers Salaries Grant (Apportionment) Order, 1924.

Dated this 29th day of August, 1924.

(Sgd.) EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

Minister for Finance.