Insurance (Amendment) Act, 1938

Payment by the Minister for Finance of deficiencies of Participating Companies.

5.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister for Finance to pay from time to time to the Terminating Company all such sums as he is required by the Scheduled Agreement so to pay in respect of the difference referred to in the Scheduled Agreement as “the deficiency”, that is to say, the amount by which the valuation of the assets to be transferred by a Participating Company to the Terminating Company falls short of the amount of the liability (as defined in the Scheduled Agreement) of such Participating Company.

(2) All sums which the Minister for Finance is authorised by the foregoing sub-section of this section to pay to the Terminating Company shall be issued and paid out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) In order to make the payments authorised by this section, the Minister for Finance may borrow on the security of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums as shall be required for that purpose, and the said Minister may, for the purpose of such borrowing, create and issue securities bearing such rate of interest and subject to such conditions as to repayment, redemption, or otherwise as he thinks fit and shall pay all moneys so borrowed into the Exchequer.