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Advances by Public Works Loan Commissioners.

663.[1] —(1) The Public Works Loan Commissioners may, for the purpose of the construction and repair of lighthouses or other extraordinary expenses connected with the service of lighthouses, buoys, and beacons, advance money upon mortgage of the [2] Mercantile Marine Fund, and the several dues, rates, fees, and payments to be carried thereto under this Act, or any of them, or any part thereof, without requiring any further security than that mortgage.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, every mortgage so made to the Public Works Loan Commissioners shall be made in accordance with the Acts regulating loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners.

(3) An advance by the Public Works Loan Commissioners shall not prevent any lawful reduction of any dues, rates, fees, or other payments payable to the [2] Mercantile Marine Fund if that reduction is assented to by the Public Works Loan Commissioners.

[1 Extended to colonial lights, by 61 & 62 Vict. c. 44. s. 2 (4).]

[2 Now the General Lighthouse Funds; see 61 & 62 Vict. c. 44. s. 1 (1) (c).]

[2 Now the General Lighthouse Funds; see 61 & 62 Vict. c. 44. s. 1 (1) (c).]