(1)There shall be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund or (if the Ministry so directs) out of moneys provided by Parliament, such sums as the Ministry may determine to be necessary for the acquisition of land and buildings or of any estate or interest therein for the accommodation of any public service of the Government of Northern Ireland, or the erection, improvement, alteration, enlargement, furnishing, or equipment of buildings used or to be used for that purpose, so, however, that the aggregate of the sums to be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund under this sub-section shall notF2. . . exceed [F3 sixty million pounds].
(2)The Ministry may borrow money for the purpose of providing for issues out of the Consolidated Fund under the preceding sub-section.
(3)Moneys borrowed under the last preceding sub-section shall be repaid within any period or periods not exceeding twenty-five years from the date of borrowing, and provision for such repayment may be made out of moneys provided by Parliament.
F4[(4)The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any enactment (whether passed before or after this Act and including this Act) under which separate provision is made in respect of any public service of the Government of Northern Ireland for the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of such sums as the Ministry may determine to be necessary, in connection with that public service, for purposes corresponding to the purposes of this section.]