Finance Act, 1911

Part IV.

National Debt.

Partial application of surplus for development fund and sanatoria and loan to East Africa Protectorate.

38 & 39 Vict. c. 45.

9 Edw. 7. c. 47.

16.(1) The old sinking fund for the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and eleven, as calculated under section nineteen of the Revenue Act, 1911, shall, notwithstanding anything in the Sinking Fund Act, 1875—

(a) to the extent of one million five hundred thousand pounds, be issued and paid by the Treasury at such times as they direct to the development fund under the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, in lieu of the sums to be issued out of the consolidated fund under subsection (2) of section two of that Act in the years ending the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and thirteen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and nineteen hundred and fifteen respectively; and

(b) to the extent of one million five hundred thousand pounds, be issued by the Treasury at such times as they direct, and carried by the Treasury to a separate account, and made available in such manner as Parliament may determine for the purposes of the provision of, or making grants in aid to, sanatoria and other institutions for the treatment of tuberculosis, or such other diseases as the Local Government Board, or as respects Scotland the Local Government Board for Scotland, or as respects Ireland the Local Government Board for Ireland, with the approval of the Treasury, may appoint; and

(c) to the extent of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, shall be issued by the Treasury at such times as they may direct for the purpose of the advance authorised by this Act to the Government of the East Africa Protectorate.

(2) The Treasury may advance by way of loan to the Government of the East Africa Protectorate for the purpose of providing improved railway communication and harbours in the Protectorate, and improved water supply for Mombasa any sums not exceeding in the whole two hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

The Government of the Protectorate shall annually, until the whole advance is deemed to have been repaid, pay to the Treasury interest at the rate of three and a half per cent. on the amount advanced, and also, by way of sinking fund, a further sum equal to one per cent. on the amount advanced, and the whole of the advance shall be deemed to have been repaid when sinking fund payments have been made sufficient, if accumulated at three and a half per cent. with yearly rests, to produce an amount equal to the advance.

Any sums paid on account of the principal or interest of the advance shall be paid into the Exchequer, and issued to the National Debt Commissioners, and shall be applied by them in like manner as the old sinking fund.