Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1983
1983 c. 29
An Act to establish a Development Commission in place of the Commissioners appointed under the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909; to authorise the making of grants by the Secretary of State to bodies promoting industrial or commercial development in areas in England; to extinguish liability in respect of certain guarantees given under the Colonial Loans Act 1949; to amend certain enactments authorising the Treasury to give guarantees; to extend the power of the Crown Estate Commissioners to grant leases; to make provision for the redemption of certain annuities and allowances which have been payable out of public funds since before 1874; to amend section 173A of the Local Government Act 1972; and for connected purposes.
X1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
The text of the whole Act was taken from S.I.F. Group 99:1 (Public Finance and Economic Controls: Government Finance and Accounting) and the text of ss. 1, 2, 8, 9, 10(1)–(3), 11 and Schs. 1, 3 was also taken from S.I.F. Group 64 (Industrial Development)