Local Government Act 1929

18 (1) If the amount of any moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes of any scheme issued by the Minister of Transport providing for the allowance by any of the companies of rebates in respect of selected traffics delivered between the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty eight, and the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, for conveyance by railway, is more than sufficient for the purposes of that scheme, the balance shall, on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, or such later date as the Minister of Transport may allow, be paid into the fund and brought forward therein, and if the said amount is insufficient for the said purpose, the Railway Clearing House shall certify the amount of the deficiency, and the amount of the deficiency as so certified shall be apportioned by the Railway Clearing House between the several companies to which that scheme applies in such proportion as may have been agreed between those companies or, in default of agreement, in the proportions which the receipts of the several companies to which that scheme applies respectively bear to the total receipts of all the said companies, being in each case receipts in respect of the selected traffics delivered between the dates aforesaid for conveyance by railway; and a sum equal to the part of the deficiency so apportioned to any company shall, on the demand of the Railway Clearing House, be paid to them by that company.

(2) Any sum recoverable by the Railway Clearing House as a debt due to any fund established for the purposes of such a scheme as is mentioned in the last foregoing sub-paragraph but not recovered before the accounts of that fund are closed, shall be recoverable by the Railway Clearing House as a debt due to the fund established under this Schedule.