HC Deb 08 November 1968 vol 772 c1248

Queen's Recommendation having been signified—

Resolved,

That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for increasing the capital of the Civil Contingencies Fund, to provide for making payments to the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man in respect of revenue from the continental shelf and to enable the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to borrow in currencies other than sterling, it is expedient to authorise—

  1. (1) any increase in the sums to be issued out of or paid into the Consolidated Fund which is attributable to any provision of that Act—
    1. (a) raising the capital of the Civil Contingencies Fund to £125 million; or
    2. (b) enabling the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to borrow in currencies other than sterling; and
  2. (2) the payment, out of moneys provided by Parliament, of sums to the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man in respect of revenue received from petroleum licences granted for the continental shelf.—[Mr. Diamond.]