§ Queen's Recommendation having been signified—
§ Resolved,
§ That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make provision with respect to the disposal by the National Bus Company and their subsidiaries of property, rights and liabilities, and for other purposes, it is expedient to authorise—
- (1) the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in consequence of—
- (a) any provision of that Act authorising expenditure by the Secretary of State for or in connection with making loans to or acquiring shares in or other securities of any Government-controlled company interested in property formerly held as or in connection with a Government testing station, and the remission of loans so made; and
- (b) any provision of that Act providing for the payment of compensation to a harbour authority or any other person who suffers injury, loss or damage in consequence of anything done in pursuance of an authorisation or direction given under that Act to a harbour authority by the Secretary of State; and
- (2) the payment into the Consolidated Fund of any sums received by the Secretary of State as interest on or in repayment of loans made by him to any such company as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) above, or in right of, or on the disposal of, any shares in or other securities of any such company which have been acquired by him—[Mr.Lang.]