Consolidated Fund Act 1816

V Vice Treasurer to take Oath before the Chancellor of Ireland. Vice Treasurer empowered to appoint a Deputy. Payment for the Annual Establishment and Expences of the Office.

And be it further enacted, That such Vice Treasurer for Ireland Co be appointed in Manner aforesaid shall take such Oath before the Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, or before the Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of Ireland, as was accustomed to be taken, by the Vice Treasurer of Ireland, before the passing of an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty-fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Receipts and Issues of His Majesty's Treasury; and for repealing an Act of Parliament passed in the Tenth Year of Henry the Seventh, intituled ' An Act authorizing the Treasurer to make all Officers as the Treasurer of England doth;' and that it shall and may be lawful for such Vice Treasurer for Ireland to appoint any Person to be his Deputy to act during his Absence or Incapacity from Sickness; and that all AGs done by such Deputy shall be as good and valid to all Intents and Purposes as if they were done by such Vice Treasurer in his own proper Person ; and that such Vice Treasurer shall be answerable and responsible for all Acts done by such Deputy in the Execution of the Duty of his Office; and that it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland from Time to Time, by his or their Warrant to the said Vice Treasurer, to order the Issue and Payment Out of the said Exchequer of any such Sum or Sums of Money for the annual Establishment and incidental and contingent Expences attendant upon the said Office of Vice Treasurer, as the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall from Time to Time order and direct.