Government Annuities Act, 1853

Amount of Annuities from Time to Time, and Sums payable on Death, to be certified to the Treasury, who shall issue their Warrant for Payment thereof.

XX. The said Comptroller General or Assistant Comptroller acting under the said Commissioners shall, within Fourteen Days preceding the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, and the Tenth Day of October in each and every Year, certify to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury the Amount of Annuities for Lives, and Sums payable at Death, which will become payable under this Act out of the said Consolidated Fund on each of such Days respectively, and the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall thereupon order and direct the Comptroller General of the Exchequer to issue out of the said Consolidated Fund from Time to Time to the Account of the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt the Sums specified in such Certificates, to be applied in paying such Annuities and Sums payable at Death respectively.