HC Deb 21 March 1957 vol 567 cc619-20

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the provisions of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1953, relating to grants by the White Fish Authority and the Herring Industry Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Authority" and "the Board" respectively) towards new vessels and engines and to the white fish subsidy, and to provide a subsidy in respect of herring, it is expedient to authorize—

  1. (a) any increase in the sums which, in accordance with subsection (4) of section one or subsection (5) of section six of the said Act of 1953, may be required to be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, being an increase attributable to provisions of the said Act of the present Session,—
    1. (i) authorising the making of a grant in pursuance of a scheme under either of those sections in respect of expenditure incurred in the conversion, from coal-firing to oil-firing, of the engine-boilers of any fishing vessel not exceeding one hundred and forty feet in length, in a case where the contract for the execution of the work of conversion is shown to the satisfaction of the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, to have been made after such day, whether before or after the passing of the said Act of the present Session but not earlier than the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, as may be appointed by an order made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State (hereinafter referred to as "the appointed day"), and an application for the grant is approved by the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, in accordance with the scheme before the end of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-one;
    2. (ii) authorising the making, in respect of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of an engine for a vessel, of a grant in pursuance of such a scheme otherwise than 620 to an individual who satisfies the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, that he is, or is to be, a working owner of the vessel, in a case where an application for the grant is approved by the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, in accordance with the scheme before the end of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, the operation of the engine does not involve the consumption of coal, the engine is installed in place of one whose operation did involve the consumption of coal and the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, are satisfied that the contract for the supply of the engine was made after the appointed day;
    3. (iii) authorising the treating, as part of the expenditure incurred in the acquisition for a vessel of a new engine which is installed in place of one which furnished motive power to other machinery of the vessel but is itself not designed to furnish motive power to that other machinery, of expenditure incurred in carrying out such work for the provision of motive power to that other machinery as is necessitated by the change of engine, in a case where the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, are satisfied that the contract for the supply of the new engine was made after the appointed day;
  2. (b) the payment, out of money provided by Parliament (in addition to the sum of ten million pounds which, by virtue of subsection (4) of section five of the said Act of 1953 and the White Fish Subsidy (Aggregate Amount of Grants) Order, 1956, is authorised to be applied in the making, under that section, of payments by way of subsidy in respect of white fish), of sums not exceeding in the aggregate seven million pounds or such greater amount (not exceeding nine million pounds) as may be prescribed by an order made, with the approval of the Treasury, by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, to be applied in the making, under that section as amended by the said Act of the present Session, of such payments as aforesaid and in the making of payments by way of the subsidy in respect of herring provided for by the last-mentioned Act.

Resolution agreed to.