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(1)The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof (in this section referred to as " the Consolidated Fund ") such sums, not exceeding in the whole the sum of four million pounds, as may be required by the Postmaster General for the purpose of making to the operating company payments in consideration of the transfer to him (whether by virtue of this Act or otherwise) of property owned by the operating company.
(2)For the purpose of providing money for sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund under the foregoing subsection or repaying to the Consolidated Fund all or any part of sums so issued, the Treasury may borrow by means of terminable annuities for a term not exceeding twenty years, and all sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Exchequer.
(3)The said terminable annuities shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament for the service of the Post Office, and if those moneys are insufficient shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund.
(4)Section five of the Telephone Transfer Act, 1911 (which relates to audit), shall have effect as if this section were included amongst the Acts therein mentioned.
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