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Power to borrow on national savings certificates for purpose of investment in local loans, stock, and redemption of loans.
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59.—(1) The Treasury may, at any time after the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty, borrow in accordance with the provisions of this section such sums as they think proper to raise for the purpose of being invested or applied in manner provided by this section.
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(2) Any sums which may be raised under this section shall be raised by the issue through the Post Office of national savings certificates, and any certificates so issued shall bear such rate of interest and shall be subject to such conditions as to repayment or otherwise as the Treasury think fit.
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(3) The principal of and interest on any national savings certificates issued under this section and any expenses incurred in connection with the issue thereof shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof.
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(4) The Treasury shall, from time to time as they think fit, issue out of the Consolidated Fund to the growing produce thereof to the National Debt Commissioners sums equal to one-half of the moneys raised under this section, and any sums so issued to the National Debt Commissioners shall as soon as practicable be invested by those Commissioners in local loans, stock or in bonds secured on the Local Loans Fund and may, pending such investment, be investment temporarily in such manner, subject to the Treasury, as the Commissioners think proper.
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(5) All sums received by the National Debt Commissioners by way of interest on investment made by them under this section ahall be paid into the Exchequer.
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(6) The Treasury shall, from time to time as they think fit, issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof and apply in the purchase, redemption, or paying off any description of debt sums equal to one-half of the moneys raised under this section together with the sums paid into the Exchequer by the National Debt Comissioners under this section.
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(7) The powers conferred on the Treasury by this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other power to borrow for the time being exerciseable by the Treasury.
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