Appropriation_Act_1834

Appropriation Act

Appropriation Act

Type of Act of Parliament in Britain


An Appropriation Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which, like a Consolidated Fund Act, allows the Treasury to issue funds out of the Consolidated Fund. Unlike a Consolidated Fund Act, an Appropriation Act also "appropriates" the funds, that is allocates the funds issued out of the Consolidated Fund to individual government departments and Crown bodies.[1] Appropriation Acts were formerly passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.[2]

Format

Each Appropriation Act has a series of schedules which contain tables that set out how the monies issued out of the Consolidated Fund are appropriated. Each department or body which has money appropriated is noted in the tables which contain columns setting out the things the money appropriated may be spent on, the net resources authorised for use, the grants out of the Consolidated Fund, the operating appropriations in aid and the non-operating appropriations in aid. The money may not be spent for purposes other than that it is appropriated for and it must be spent by the end of the fiscal year covered by that appropriation or returned to the Consolidated Fund.[1]

The typical structure of such an act begins with the long title, which defines which financial years the act applies to. This is followed by the preamble, which is different from the normal British public general Act of Parliament preamble in that it includes additional text before the normal preamble:[citation needed]

Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament:—

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Until 2000 an older form of preamble was used:[citation needed]

Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Each Appropriation Act typically covers two or more fiscal years, and will normally repeal earlier Appropriation Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts still on the statute books.[1]

Effect

An Appropriation Act normally becomes spent on the conclusion of the financial year to which it relates.[3]

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18th century

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  • The Appropriation Act 1776 (17 Geo. 3. c. 47)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1778 (18 Geo. 3. c. 54)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1790 (30 Geo. 3. c. 32)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1795 (35 Geo. 3. c. 120)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1796 (36 Geo. 3. c. 126)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 144)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1798 (38 Geo. 3. c. 90)

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19th century

1800s

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  • The Appropriation Act 1802 (42 Geo. 3. c. 120)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3. c. 162)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1804 (44 Geo. 3. c. 110)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1805 (45 Geo. 3. c. 129)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1806 (46 Geo. 3. c. 149)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1808 (48 Geo. 3. c. 148)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1809 (49 Geo. 3. c. 128)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1810 (50 Geo. 3. c. 115)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. 117)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. 154)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1816 (56 Geo. 3. c. 142)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 132)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1818 (58 Geo. 3. c. 101)

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  • The Appropriation Act 1819 (59 Geo. 3. c. 133)

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1850s

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  • The Appropriation Act 1850

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  • The Appropriation Act 1851

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  • The Appropriation Act 1852

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  • The Appropriation Act 1853

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  • The Appropriation Act 1854

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  • The Appropriation Act 1855

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  • The Appropriation Act 1856

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  • The Appropriation Act 1857

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  • The Appropriation Act 1858

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  • The Appropriation Act 1859

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  • The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Act[6][7] (1864) (27 & 28 Vict. c. 73).[8] The bill for this act was the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill.[9] This act received royal assent on 29 July 1864.

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1870s

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  • The Appropriation Act 1871[13] (34 & 35 Vict. c. 89). This act received royal assent on 21 August 1871, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1872[14] (35 & 36 Vict. c. 87). This act received royal assent on 10 August 1872. Section 6 was repealed by section 6 of the Appropriation Act 1877. The Appropriation Act 1872 was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1873[15] (36 & 37 Vict. c. 79). This act received royal assent on 5 August 1873, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1874[16] (37 & 38 Vict. c. 56). This act received royal assent on 7 August 1874, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1875[17] (38 & 39 Vict. c. 78). This act received royal assent on 13 August 1875, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1876[18] (39 & 40 Vict. c. 60). This act received royal assent on 15 August 1876, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1877[19] (40 & 41 Vict. c. 61). This act received royal assent on 14 August 1877, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1878[20] (41 & 42 Vict. c. 65). This act received royal assent on 16 August 1878, and was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883.

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1880s

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  • The Appropriation Act 1880[22] (43 Vict. c. 13). This act received royal assent on 24 March 1880, and was repealed by the First Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1880 (Session 2)[23] (43 & 44 Vict. c. 40). This act received royal assent on 7 September 1880, and was repealed by the First Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1881[24] (44 & 45 Vict. c. 56). This act received royal assent on 27 August 1881, and was repealed by the First Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1882[25] (45 & 46 Vict. c. 71). This act received royal assent on 18 August 1882.

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  • The Appropriation Act 1883[26] (46 & 47 Vict. c. 50). This act received royal assent on 25 August 1883.

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2010s

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  • The Appropriation Act 2010 (c. 5)

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  • The Appropriation Act 2011 (c. 2)

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  • The Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2012 (c. 1)

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  • The Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2012 (c. 13)

Northern Ireland

A number of Appropriation Acts were passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland.[27] A number of Appropriation Orders in Council have been made for Northern Ireland.[28]

See also


References

Notes
  1. Bradley & Ewing (2003) pp. 202–203
  2. See, for example, the Act 39 Geo 3 c 114 (1799)
  3. The Law Commission. Statute Law Revision: Third Report. Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill. Law Com 37. Cmnd 4546. HMSO. London. December 1970. Page 23.
  4. Pickering, The Statutes at Large, vol 31, p 96
  5. Raithby, The Statutes at Large, vol 20, p 149. See also pp 4, 5, 56 & 112.
  6. Glen. "Consolidated Fund Appropriation Act" in "Poor Law Legislation". The Union, Parish, and Public Health Officers' Pocket Almanac and Guide, for the Year of our Lord 1865. Knight & Co. London. 1865. pp 174 & 175.
  7. "Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Act": Paterson (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1864. John Crockford. London. 1864. p v.
  8. "Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill". Index to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, in the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom. 27° & 28° Victoria. 1864. ("72" is a misprint for "73").
  9. This short title was conferred on this act by section 8 of this act.
  10. For further commentary on this act, see "The Appropriation Act, 1870", Halsbury's Statutes of England, (The Complete Statutes of England), 1st Edition, vol 17: , p 500; and "The Appropriation Act, 1870", Halsbury's statutes of England, 2nd Edition, vol 22, p 761.
  11. This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
  12. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  13. This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
  14. This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
  15. This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
  16. This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
  17. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  18. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  19. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  20. This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
  21. This short title was conferred on this act by section 8 of this act.
  22. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  23. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  24. This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
  25. See, for example, the Appropriation Act (Northern Ireland)1923.
  26. "The Public Accounts Committee", p 13 (12 December 1984 et seq), Parliamentary Papers: House of Commons Bills and Papers and Command Papers, Volume 24, Session 6 November 1984 to 30 October 1985. The Appropriation (Northern Ireland) Order 2000 (SI 2000/742) (NI 1) is an example of an Appropriation Order in Council.
Bibliography
  • Bradley, A. W.; Ewing, K. D. (2003). Constitutional and Administrative Law (13th ed.). London: Pearson. pp. 202–203. ISBN 0582438071.

Further reading

  • Norman Wilding and Philip Laundy. "Appropriation Act". An Encyclopaedia of Parliament. Third Edition. Frederick A Praeger. New York and Washington. 1968. Pages 24 and 25. See also pages 3, 129, 167, 168, 250, 253, 254, 536, 596, 599, 601 and 685.
  • Will Bateman. Public Finance and Parliamentary Constitutionalism. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Page 31 et seq.
  • HM Treasury (2000). Government Accounting: A Guide on Accounting and Financial Procedures. Stationery Office Books. ISBN 0-11-702668-9.


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