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Repayment of loan.
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7. Every loan which shall be made under the provisions of this Act shall be repaid by the payment to Her Majesty of an annual sum of five pounds for every one hundred pounds of such loan from time to time advanced, and so on in proportion for any lesser amount, and to be payable for the term of thirty-five years, to be computed from the date of the advance in respect of which the said annual sum shall be charged, such annual sum to be paid by equal half-yearly payments on the fifth day of April and tenth day of October in every year during the said term of thirty-five years, with such apportionment, if any, as may be necessary in respect of the first and last of such payments: Provided always, that the amount of such annual sum may, by agreement, and with the sanction of the Treasury, be increased to such amount as will repay the sum so advanced sooner than the said period of thirty-five years herein-before appointed.
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