HC Deb 18 December 1969 vol 793 cc1689-91

Queen's Recommendation having been signified—

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make, for Great Britain, further provision with respect to the improvement, maintenance and management of harbours and the carrying on of harbour operations (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'), it is expedient to authorize—

(1) the issue out of the National Loans Fund of sums required by the Minister of Transport to enable him to lend money to a National Ports Authority established by the Act;

(2) the charge on, and the issue out of, the Consolidated Fund of any sums required by the Treasury—

  1. (a) for fulfilling any guarantee given by them for the repayment of the principal of, or the payment of interest on, any sums borrowed by the said Authority from a person other than the Minister of Transport; or
  2. (b) for making any payments which the Treasury are liable to make by virtue of provisions of the Act making them answerable for any default by that Authority in discharging liabilities transferred to it by the Act in connection with the transfer to it of a harbour, being liabilities in respect of the redemption or repayment of, or the payment of interest on, securities or borrowed money;

(3) any charge on public moneys which may result from the removal by the Act of the limit imposed by section 13(1) of the Harbours Act 1964 on the aggregate amount of loans and grants made by the Minister of Transport under sections 11 and 12 of that Act;

(4) the making by the Act, in connection with provisions thereof relating to transfers of harbours, of provision for the extinguishment in whole or in part of the liability of the British Railways Board or the British Waterways Board in respect of debts due from that Board to the Minister of Transport;

(5) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—

  1. (a) remuneration and allowances to auditors and arbitrators appointed under any provision of the Act;
  2. (b) any administrative expenses incurred by any Minister of the Crown under or 1691 in consequence of the provisions of the Act;
  3. (c) any increase attributable to any of the provisions of the Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.—[Mr. Malley.]