Unit: Office of the Paymaster General

Office of the Paymaster General

Tuesday 1st of January 1861 - still active

The Office of the Paymaster General, including its Ireland-related functions, was formed in 1861 with the merger of a number of pre-existing offices, including the Paymaster of the Civil Service in Ireland. The Office continued in being post-independence. The Office has two operational arms: one provides a banking service to Departments and Offices while the other pays pensions on an agency basis to certain retired civil servants, office holders and VEC staff. The Office is administered from within the Department of Finance

From date: 1861-01-01
To date:
Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/39/page/379; First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0
Confidence: Fairly Confident
Legal forms: Executive Agency (without independent legal personality)
- Source: First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); https://http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paymaster_General#:~:text=Her%20Majesty%27s%20Paymaster%20General%20or,Paymaster%20General%20is%20Penny%20Mordaunt
- From date: 1861-01-01
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Functions: Delivery
- Source: First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); https://http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paymaster_General#:~:text=Her%20Majesty%27s%20Paymaster%20General%20or,Paymaster%20General%20is%20Penny%20Mordaunt
- From date: 1861-01-01
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Policy domains: General Public Services
- Source: First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); https://http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paymaster_General#:~:text=Her%20Majesty%27s%20Paymaster%20General%20or,Paymaster%20General%20is%20Penny%20Mordaunt
- From date: 1861-01-01
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Parents: Ministry of Finance
- Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/39/page/379; First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924)
- From date: 1922-04-01
- To date: 1924-06-02
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Parents: Department of Finance
- Source: First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); https://http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0;
- From date: 1924-06-02
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Counties: Dublin
- Source: https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0
- From date: 1922-04-01
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Cofog: general services
- Source: First Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); https://http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-31.867.0; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paymaster_General#:~:text=Her%20Majesty%27s%20Paymaster%20General%20or,Paymaster%20General%20is%20Penny%20Mordaunt
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
FOI: yes
- Source: Freedom of Information Act 1997 (No. 13 of 1997) (as amended); Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30 of 2014) (as amended)
- From date: 1998-04-28
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Comptrollers: yes
- Source: Comptroller and Auditor General Act 1923 (No. 1 of 1923) (as amended)
- From date: 1923-01-12
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/16/enacted/en/html

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
Office of the Paymaster General	1861-01-01		Office of the Paymaster General

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Office of the Paymaster General