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APPENDIX VII.FINE FUND—PRISONS VOTE.Cléireach, An Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí. I attach, as undertaken by me to the Public Accounts Committee on 13th ultimo, a Note on the Fine Fund—Prisons Vote (No. 31). (Signed) THOMAS J. COYNE, Secretary, Department of Justice. 18 Samhain, 1955. Prison Officers may be fined for disciplinary offences and it was the practice prior to 1880 for fines so imposed to be paid into a “Fines Fund” from which grants for the benefit of members of the Prison Service were made each year. In 1880 the British Treasury directed that the amount of the Prison estimates was to be abated each year by a sum equivalent to the amount of fines that might be imposed, and that the amount so abated was to be included in a new subhead entitled “Fine Fund” from which all payments were to be made. The payments were to consist of ad misericordiam grants in the following circumstances:— (a) Long continued illness of an officer, involving loss or suspension of pay. (b) Loss of wife leaving children when the officer must be at the expense of having them taken care of. (c) Illness of an officer’s family, or of those dependent on him, by which expenses are cast on him; or any similar case of unusual expense caused by illness. (d) Discharge, with or without pension, from ill-health, if there are any circumstances by which unusual expenses are thrown on the officer. (e) The widow or children of an officer who has died in the service (if an officer leaves the service from ill-health, and dies within six months, the case may be brought specially to consideration). (f) Any unexpended balance of the fund may be applied, if approved, in aid of officers’ reading rooms, or to some similar purpose by which the general body of the officers may be benefited. The amount available for payment is consequently not dependent upon the amount of fines collected during a year. The latter are, as will be seen under the heading “Deduct” at the foot of Subhead A—Pay and Allowances, in effect, brought to the credit of the Exchequer. If sufficient cases deserving of assistance do not arise during a year, all or portion of the amount provided is surrendered to the Exchequer. |
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