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CONSTITUTION ACT 1889 - SECT 72

72 .         Consolidated Account to be appropriated by Act of the Legislature: certain charges not affected

                After and subject to the charges hereinbefore mentioned, all the Consolidated Account shall be appropriated to such purposes as any Act of the Legislature shall prescribe. Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect the payment of the annual interest or the principal sums mentioned in any outstanding debentures, or of any other charge upon the public revenue, as such interest, principal, or charge becomes due. Nor shall anything in this Act affect any pensions or superannuation allowances which at the commencement of this Act are by law chargeable upon the public revenue of the Colony, but all such pensions and superannuation allowances shall remain and be so chargeable, and shall be paid out of the Consolidated Account, and all rights and benefits which at the commencement of this Act are by law claimable by or accruing to any civil servant of the Government are hereby reserved and maintained. Provided nevertheless, that the power to suspend or remove any civil servant from his office shall be vested in the Governor in Council.

        [Section 72 amended: No. 6 of 1993 s. 11; No. 77 of 2006 s. 4.]



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