Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1954

Guarantee of securities.

9.—(1) The Minister for Finance may guarantee, in such manner and form and on such terms and conditions as he thinks fit, the due repayment by the Board of any moneys borrowed under section 4.

(2) All moneys from time to time required by the Minister for Finance to meet sums which may become payable under any guarantee given by him under this section shall be advanced out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) Any advances out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof for the purpose of this section shall be repaid to the Central Fund (with interest thereon at such rates as the Minister for Finance shall appoint) by the Board within twelve months from the date of the advance.

(4) Where the whole or any part of the advances out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof for the purpose of this section has not been repaid by the Board to the Central Fund in accordance with subsection (3), the amount so remaining outstanding shall be repaid to the Central Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

(5) The provision of moneys by the Oireachtas under subsection (4) shall not exempt the Board from the liability to repay to the Central Fund, with interest thereon at the rate appointed by the Minister for Finance, the full amount of any advance made under subsection (2), and such repayment shall be made by the Board at such times and in such instalments as the Minister for Finance may appoint.