Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and shall come into operation forthwith.
Interpretation
2. The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 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 sums out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ended 31st March 1994 and the year ending 31st March 1996
3.—(1) 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 ended on 31st March 1994 the sum of one thousand pounds.
(2) 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 1996 the sum of three thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven million, three hundred and eighty-five 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 sums, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole one thousand, seven hundred and nineteen 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 1996.
Appropriation of grants
5.—(1) The sum granted by Article 3(1) out of the Consolidated Fund is appropriated for the services and purposes specified in Part I of Schedule 1.
(2) The sum already authorised to be appropriated in aid for the year ended on 31st March 1994 shall be increased by the sum specified in the third column of Part I of Schedule 1 for the service in connection with which that sum is specified.
(3) The sum granted by Article 3(2) out of the Consolidated Fund is appropriated for the several services and purposes specified in Part II of Schedule 1.
(4) In addition to the sum granted by Article 3(2) out of the Consolidated Fund, there may be applied as appropriations in aid of the grants for the several services and purposes specified in Part II of Schedule 1, the sums respectively specified in the third column.
Repeal of spent enactments
6. The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council