Revenue Act 1889

PART V Miscellaneous

30 Undisposed of residue of sailors effects

(1) If in any case the residue or any part thereof of the estate or effects of a deceased officer, seaman, or marine, having been received by the Admiralty, remains undisposed of or unappropriated for a period of six years and-a-half from the date of the receipt by the Admiralty of notice of the death, the Admiralty shall, as soon as may be after the expiration of that period, pay or credit the said residue or part to the Greenwich Hospital capital account. Provided that this section shall not apply to any sums received by the Admiralty before the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and that the application under this section of any residue, or part of a residue, shall not bar any subsequent claim of any person to the same.

(2) This section shall be construed as part of the [28 & 29 Vict. c. 111.] Navy and Marines (Property of Deceased) Act, 1865.

31 Remission of fees payable to public department out of public money

(1) Any fee leviable in any public office which would, if levied, be payable out of money provided by Parliament shall, if the Treasury so direct, be remitted.

(2) This section shall apply to all fees, percentages, and other sums to which the [42 & 43 Vict. c. 58.] Public Offices (Fees) Act, 1879, for the time being applies.

32 Accruer and payment of salaries, &c. charged on Consolidated Fund

All salaries, pensions, compensation allowances, and other allowances which are chargeable on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom and are payable at quarterly periods shall accrue due from day to day, and shall be payable on such quarterly days as may be from time to time determined by the Treasury.

33 Explanation of law as to annuities under 28 & 29 Vict. c.89

Whereas by section nineteen of the [28 & 29 Vict. c. 89.] Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865, it is enacted that where any commissioner, officer, clerk, or person, while in receipt of an annuity provided in accordance with that Act, is appointed to any office under the Crown or under the Admiralty, then, if the annuity is equal to or greater than the annual emoluments of the office to which he is appointed, the annuity shall be received by him in full discharge of those emoluments, and if the annuity is less than those emoluments, the amount of the annuity shall be received by him in discharge of an equal amount of those emoluments, and doubts have been entertained as to the meaning of this enactment; it is hereby declared that the said annuity shall be received in discharge only of the sum, if any, by which the annuity, together with the annual emoluments of the new office, exceeds the emoluments of the office in respect of which the annuity was granted.

34 Amendment of 29 & 30 Vict. c.62. s.15

Section fifteen of the Crown Lands Act, 1866, shall have effect as if any reference to the payments to the perpetual curate of the Isle of Alderney were omitted from the warrant issued under that section.

35 Definition of "Treasury"

In this Act " the Treasury " means the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

36 Repeal

The Acts specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.

Provided that this repeal shall not affect—

(a) any liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed; or

(b) the exercise of any power or the commencement or continuance of any legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment.

37 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Revenue Act, 1889.