Naval Defence Act, 1893

The Naval Defence Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. ch. 45) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended the Naval Defence Act, 1889.

Act

		An Act to make further provision for the completion and equipment of Ships under the Naval Defence Act, 1889, and to amend that Act. [12th September 1893.]
		Most Gracious Sovereign,
52 & 53 Vict. c. 8.		WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, being desirous to make further provision for the completion and equipment of the ships authorised to be built under the Naval Defence Act, 1889, have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty for those purposes the sums herein-after mentioned as an addition to the sums already granted for those purposes, and have resolved that those sums should be raised as in this Act provided:
		We do therefore 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:
Increase of expenditure authorised for dockyard shipbuilding under 52 & 53 Vict. c. 8.		1. (1.) The Admiralty may expend for the purpose of dockyard Increase of shipbuilding under the Naval Defence Act, 1889, the sum of one expenditure million three hundred and fifty thousand pounds in addition to the dockyard ships of eight million six hundred and fifty thousand pounds authorised by that Act for the purpose, and the total amount authorised to be expended for the purposes of that Act shall be increased accordingly, and for the purpose of meeting this total expenditure there shall, in addition to the provision made under section three of the Naval Defence Act, 1889, be applied out of moneys provided by Parliament for navy services during the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, sums not exceeding in the aggregate the excess of the said total expenditure above the provision under the said section three. (2.) The time for completion mentioned in section one of the Naval Defence Act, 1889, shall be extended to the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.
Application of surplus on former years for 1895. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 8.		2. If at the end of the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four any surplus remains on the Naval Defence Account out of moneys for 1895. transferred thereto in pursuance of section three of the Naval Defence Act, 1889, then, notwithstanding anything in that section, that surplus may, in whole or in part, irrespective of its source, be applied in accordance with the directions of the Treasury either for the purpose of dockyard shipbuilding or for the armament of dockyard vessels, within the meaning of the Naval Defence Act, 1889, as an addition to the sum authorised by this Act to be applied for either of those purposes during the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, but if at the end of that year there still remains any such surplus on the Naval Defence Account, that surplus shall be paid and applied as part of the new sinking fund.
Armament in certain cases not to include reserves.		3. Notwithstanding anything in the Naval Defence Act, 1889, the armament to be provided for the contract vessels out of the sum of ten million pounds authorised by that Act need not include reserves of torpedoes and ammunition.
Charge of certain expenditure before the passing of 52 & 53 Vict. c. 8.		4. Whereas before the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, certain expenditure was incurred which is properly chargeable as part of the expenditure under the Naval Defence Act, 1889: Be it therefore enacted that such passing of expenditure may, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand pounds, be charged as part of the expenditure duly incurred under the Naval Defence Act, 1889.
Explanation of s. 3 (2) of 52 & 53 Vict. c. 8.		5. The powers conferred by sub-section two of section three of the Naval Defence Act, 1889, shall be, and be deemed always to have been, applicable, notwithstanding that in any financial year sums less than two million six hundred and fifty thousand pounds or six hundred thousand pounds may be or may have been provided by Parliament.
Application of ss. 4, 5, & 6 of 52 & 53 Vict. c. 8.		6. Sections four, five, and six of the Naval Defence Act, 1889, shall apply in the case of money applied, expended, or authorised under this Act as they apply in the case of money applied, expended, or authorised under that Act.
Commencement and short title.		7. This Act shall have effect from the beginning of the current financial year, and may be cited as the Naval Defence Act, 1893.

Bibliography

• • The Public General Statutes, Passed in the Fifty-Sixth and Fifty-Seventh Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1893–94: with a List of the Local and Private Acts, Tables Showing the Effect of the Session's Legislation, and a Copious Index. Vol. XXX. The Law Reports. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1894.