3 Local loans.U.K.
[F1(1)The Treasury may issue out of the National Loans Fund such sums as are required for making loans of the descriptions set out in Schedule 4, subject to the limit in section 4.]
(2)Interest on [F2local loans] shall be paid at such rates as the Treasury may determine from time to time in accordance with section 5 of this Act.
(3)All sums paid or applicable in or towards the discharge of the principal or interest of any [F3local loans], whether before or after the coming into force of this section, shall be paid by the [F4Treasury] into the National Loans Fund:
Provided that where security for a loan is enforced in any manner the net receipts only shall be so paid into the National Loans Fund.
(4)Any sum payable in respect of Irish land purchase annuities which, but for the provisions of this section, would be payable into the Local Loans Fund under section 26(2) of the M1Government of Ireland Act 1920, or under any other enactment, shall be paid into the National Loans Fund.
(5)Subject to the limit in this Act, . . . F5, the [F6Treasury’s] power of making [F7local loans] shall include power to enter into undertakings to make [F7local loans].
(6)The [F8Treasury] shall, as respects each financial year, prepare F9... an account of [F10local loans made] in the financial year, and of the sums paid or applicable in the financial year in or towards the discharge of the principal or interest of [F11local loans], whether before or after the coming into force of this section, and send it to the Comptroller and Auditor General not later than the end of November next following the end of the financial year and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on the account and lay copies of it, together with his report, before each House of Parliament.
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(8)—(10). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13
[F14(11)The Public Works Loans Act 1875 and any enactments amending that Act shall apply to local loans.]
[F15(12)In this Act “local loans” means loans made, in pursuance of this section, of the descriptions set out in Schedule 4 to this Act.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 3(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(2) (with art. 9)
F2Words in s. 3(2) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(3) (with art. 9)
F3Words in s. 3(3) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(4)(a) (with art. 9)
F4Word in s. 3(3) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(4)(b) (with art. 9)
F5Words repealed by Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 99:3), ss. 125(2)(a), 128(6), Sch. 23 Pt. XIV
F6Word in s. 3(5) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(5)(a) (with art. 9)
F7Words in s. 3(5) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(5)(b) (with art. 9)
F8Word in s. 3(6) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(6)(a) (with art. 9)
F9Words in s. 3(6) omitted (25.2.2020) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(6)(b) (with art. 9)
F10Words in s. 3(6) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(6)(c) (with art. 9)
F11Words in s. 3(6) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(6)(d) (with art. 9)
F12S. 3(7) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II
F13S. 3(8)–(10) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II
F14S. 3(11) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(7) (with art. 9)
F15S. 3(12) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 64(8) (with art. 9)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 3(11) applied (temp. 14.11.1995 to 1.4.1996) by S.I. 1995/2766, art. 2(1)
Marginal Citations