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(1)On the transfer date all the rights and liabilities to which the Corporation was entitled or subject immediately before that date under the terms of issue of British Gas Stock shall become by virtue of this section rights and liabilities of the Treasury.
(2)As from the transfer date British Gas Stock shall be deemed for all purposes, but subject to the rights and liabilities mentioned in subsection (1) above, to have been created and issued under the M1National Loans Act 1968, and that Act and any other enactment, regulation or rule relating to securities issued under that Act shall apply accordingly to that Stock.
(3)As from the transfer date British Gas 3% Guaranteed Stock, 1990-95 shall be renamed “3% Exchequer Gas Stock, 1990-95 ”.
(4)Before the transfer date the Corporation shall pay to the Treasury an amount equal to the interest (without any deduction for income tax) accruing on British Gas Stock in the period from the date when the last instalment of interest became payable on the Stock down to the transfer date.
(5)Any question arising between the Corporation and the Treasury as to the manner in which interest accrued on British Gas Stock is to be calculated for the purposes of subsection (4) above shall be determined by the Treasury; and the amount received by the Treasury under that subsection shall be paid into the National Loans Fund.
(6)Before the transfer date the Corporation shall pay to the Bank of England a sum equal to the amounts accruing in respect of unclaimed interest or redemption money on British Gas Stock before the transfer date (after deduction of income tax in the case of interest), but excluding any amounts represented by money in the hands of the Bank of England.
(7)The Bank of England shall deal with—
(a)the money paid to them under subsection (6) above; and
(b)the money already in their hands which represents such unclaimed interest or redemption money as is mentioned in that subsection,
as money entrusted to them for payment to holders of British Gas Stock and section 5 of the M2Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1955 (which relates to unclaimed dividends etc. on Government Stock) shall apply accordingly.
(8)In this section “British Gas Stock ” means any stock created and issued under section 21 of the 1972 Act or section 43 of the M3Gas Act 1948.
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