The Appropriation (No. 4)(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 2402 (N.I. 17)

NORTHERN IRELAND

The Appropriation (No. 4)(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Made

19th December 1989

Coming into Operation

19th December 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1989

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974(1) and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is herebyordered, as follows:—

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Appropriation (No. 4) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and shall come into operation forthwith.

Interpretation

2.  The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for year ending 31st March 1990

3.  The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on 31st March 1990 the sum of ninety-five million, seven hundred and fifty-one thousand pounds.

Power for Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the aforesaid sum, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole forty-eight million pounds.

(2) Any money so borrowed shall be repaid, with any interest due thereon, out of the Consolidated Fund at any date not later than 31st March 1990.

Appropriation of grants

5.—(1) The sum granted by Article 3 out of the Consolidated Fund is appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the Schedule.

(2) The sum already authorised to be appropriated in aid for the year ending on 31st March 1990 shall be increased by the sum specified in the third column of the Schedule for the service and purpose in connection with which that sum is specified.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 5.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE of supplementary sums granted, and of an increase of the sum which may be applied as an appropriation in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1990 viz:—

	Sums Granted	Increase of Appropriation in Aid
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT	£	£
2. For expenditure by the Department of Economic Development on the Local Enterprise Development Unit, other local enterprise initiatives, aircraft and ship-building industries, grants to small and medium-sized firms, capital grants, industrially relevant research and development, the administrative costs of the industrial science division and the development of tourism.	61,341,000	28,500,000
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES4. For expenditure by the Department of Health and Social Services on non-contributory retirement pensions (old persons' pensions), attendance and invalid care allowances, severe disablement allowance, mobility allowance, lump sum payments to pensioners etc., income support, supplementary pensions and allowances, grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the payment of housing benefit (rent rebates, rent allowances and rate rebates), child benefit, one-parent benefit, family credit, and for sums payable into the social fund for expenditure on community care grants, budgeting and crisis loans, maternity and funeral payments and cold weather payments, and on transitional payments to help certain housing benefit claimants significantly affected by the change to the housing benefit scheme and to certain supplementary benefit claimants not entitled to benefit under the income support scheme, payments to certain hostels affected by changes in income support and retail price index adjustment payments.	34,410,000	—
TOTAL £	95,751,000	28,500,000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of a further sum for the year ending 31st March 1990 and appropriates that sum for specified services in Northern Ireland. It also authorises the application of a further sum as an appropriation in aid.

(1)

1974 c. 28

(2)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)