Mineral Workings Act 1951

40 Financial provisions

(1) The Minister shall pay into the Exchequer out of the fund, at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may direct—

(a) such sums as the Minister and the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may respectively estimate in accordance with directions given by the Treasury to be equal to the amount of any administrative expenses incurred by them respectively under this Act in relation to ironstone and worked ironstone land (including any renumeration or allowances paid to the members of any committee appointed or designated by the Minister under this Act);

(b) such sum as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may estimate as aforesaid to be equal to the amount of any expenses incurred By him in the management of or farming of worked ironstone land within the ironstone district.

(2) The Minister shall pay into the Forestry Fund out of the fund, at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may direct—

(a) such sum as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may estimate as aforesaid to be equal to the amount of any administrative expenses incurred by the Forestry Commissioners under this Act;

(b) a sum equal to the amount of any expenses incurred by those Commissioners in the payment of grants in accordance with subsection (1) of section twenty-five of this Act;

(c) such sum as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may estimate as aforesaid to be equal to the amount of any expenses incurred by those Commissioners in the afforestation of worked ironstone land within the ironstone district acquired by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under the Forestry Act, 1945.

(3) Any expenses of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the payment of grants under section twenty of this Act or in the payment of remuneration or allowances to any person or persons appointed by that Minister for the purposes of subsection (6) of section twenty-two of this Act shall be defrayed out of the fund.

(4) Subject to the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section, any such expenses as are mentioned therein shall be defrayed, in the case of expenses of the Minister or the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries out of moneys provided by Parliament, and in the case of expenses of the Forestry Commissioners out of the Forestry Fund.

(5) There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums payable out of such moneys under Part I or Part II of the Local Government Act, 1948.

(6) Any expenses of the Minister of Transport under section thirty-two of this Act shall be defrayed in accordance with the provisions of section forty-nine of the principal Act or section forty-six of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, as the case may be.