Finance Act, 1896

Part VII.

Miscellaneous.

Increase of annuity and reduction of rate of interest for the Indian Army Pension Deficiency Fund. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 67.

37. [Recital of 48 & 49 Vict. c. 67 and that the Indian Army Pension Deficiency Fund is insufficient to meet charges thereon, and expediency of increasing the amount of the annuity charged by s. 4 of said Act on Consolidated Fund and of reduction of rate of interest on money to be lent under s. 5 of said Act: rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]

(1) The annuity charged on the Consolidated Fund by section four of the Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act, 1885, shall, as from the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, be two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds, and the said Act shall have effect as if “two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds, beginning on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six,” were substituted in the said section for “one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, beginning on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.”

(2) The rate of interest for any money lent after the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six under section five of the said Act shall be such as the National Debt Commissioners, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine.

[Section 38 makes an addition to s. 27 of 53 & 54 Vict. c. 21; see that Act.]