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Act No. 32, 1902.
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Constitution.


Signatures by one Executive Councillor in the absence of another.
44 Vic. No. 6, s. 4.
38. Subject to the proviso of section thirty-six, any official document, minute, instrument, or paper, of what kind soever, which, according to official custom or to the requirements of any Act, requires or appears to require the signature of any particular Executive Councillor, shall, in the absence or disability of such Executive Councillor, be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes if signed by any other Executive Councillor.


PART V.
The Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Consolidated Revenue Fund.
17 Vic. No. 41, s. 47.
39. All taxes, imposts, rates, and duties, and all territorial, casual, and other revenues of the Crown (including royalties), from whatever source arising within New South Wales, and over which the Legislature has power of appropriation, shall form one Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be appropriated for the Public Service of New South Wales, in the manner and subject to the charges hereinafter mentioned.

Expenses of collection.
Ibid. s. 48.
40. The Consolidated Revenue Fund shall be permanently charged with all the costs, charges, and expenses incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof; such costs, charges, and expenses being subject nevertheless to be reviewed and audited in such manner as may be directed by any Act.

Civil List payable to His Majesty.
Ibid. s. 49.
41. (1) There shall be payable in every year to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the several sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty-five thousand three hundred pounds for defraying the expense of the several services and purposes named in the Third and Fourth SchedulesThird and Fourth Schedules to this Act.

41. (2) The Colonial Treasurer shall issue the said several sums in discharge of such warrants as shall be from time to time directed under the hand of the Governor, and the said Treasurer shall account to His Majesty for the same through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury in such manner and form as His Majesty shall be graciously pleased to direct.

41. Proviso.(3) Provided that for such time as there exist ministers of religion whose claims to stipends or allowances payable out of the sum set apart by Schedule C to the Constitution Act were preserved by the Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act of 1862, and who are under the said Act legally entitled for the time being to claim stipends or allowances from the public funds, there shall be payable in every year to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, out of the
Consolidated