Central Bank Act, 1942
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The capital of the Bank. |
9.—(1) The capital of the Bank shall be the sum of forty thousand pounds whereof the sum of twenty-four thousand pounds shall be paid to the Bank by the Minister on the appointed day or as soon thereafter as may be and whereof the residue shall be paid to the Bank by the Minister at such time or times as may be agreed upon by the Board and the Minister. | |
(2) All moneys payable to the Bank by the Minister under the foregoing sub-section of this section shall be charged on and paid out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof. | ||
(3) When the Minister has paid to the Bank the sum of twenty-four thousand pounds in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this section, the Bank shall forthwith repay to every bank which is a Shareholding Bank immediately before the appointed day all sums paid by such bank to the Commission in pursuance of section 64 of the Currency Act together with the appropriate dividend on every such sum for the period from the last date up to which dividend had been paid thereon to the date of such repayment. | ||
(4) Sub-section (4) of section 63 of the Currency Act is hereby amended by the deletion of the words “for the time being paid up by Shareholding Banks on account of their capital liability”, and the insertion in the said sub-section of the words “of the capital of the Bank for the time being paid up” in lieu of the words so deleted. |