HC Deb 10 July 1950 vol 477 cc1060-1

Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make further provision for a temporary increase in the Civil Contingencies Fund, to authorise loans to the Government of Northern Ireland, to give statutory authority for the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of grants in respect of the expenses of police forces in England and Wales, and to wind up the Czecho-Slovak Financial Claims, Fund, it is expedient to authorise—

  1. (a) the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of any sums required—
    1. (i) for increasing the capital of the Civil Contingencies Fund until the end of the year nineteen hundred and fifty-two by not more than one hundred and twenty-five million pounds; or
    2. (ii) for advancing any sums by way of loan to the Government of Northern Ireland, so however that any sums so advanced and remaining unrepaid at any time shall not exceed fifteen million pounds;
  2. (b) the raising under the National Loans Act, 1939, of any money required for the purpose of providing any sums to be issued as aforesaid;
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  3. (c) the payment into the Exchequer of sums repaid out of the Civil Contingencies Fund and sums paid by the Government of Northern Ireland in respect of advances to them, and the issue of such sums out of the Consolidated Fund, and the application of such sums, in so far as they represent principal in redemption or repayment of debt, and in so far as they represent interest in payment of interest otherwise falling to be paid out of the permanent annual charge for the National Debt;
  4. (d) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of grants of such amounts as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury determine in respect of expenses incurred for the purposes of—
    1. (i) any police force in England and Wales in respect of which grants out of such moneys have been made before the passing of the said Act of the present Session; or
    2. (ii) any combined police force, county police force or borough police force established in England or Wales after the passing of the said Act."

Resolution agreed to.