National Debt Act, 1881

Conversion of Exchequer bonds into permanent annuities with sinking fund.

2. (1.) The Treasury may pay off any Exchequer bonds held at the passing of this Act by the National Debt Commissioners on account of Trustee and Post Office Savings Banks, not exceeding in the whole seven million seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds by the creation as from the day on which each such bond falls due, of perpetual annuities of equivalent capital value, and the day on which each such bond falls due shall be for the purposes of this Act the date of the creation of such annuities.

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(3.) The perpetual annuities created under this section shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund