# Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1912

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Date of Commencement: 28 March 1912 See this legislation with any revisons at legislation.gov.uk .
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CHAPTER 1.
[28th March 1912.]
WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Issue of 241,117l. out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the years ending 31st March 1911 and 1912. 1. The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and eleven and one thousand nine hundred and twelve, the sum of two hundred and forty-one thousand one hundred and seventeen pounds.
Issue of 59,072,100l. out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending 31st March 1913. 2. The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and thirteen the sum of fifty-nine million seventy-two thousand one hundred pounds.
Power for the Treasury to borrow. 3.—(1) The Treasury may borrow from any person, by the issue of Treasury Bills or otherwise, and the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland may advance to the Treasury on the credit of the said sums, any sum or sums not exceeding in the ​whole fifty-nine million three hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and seventeen pounds.
(2) The date of payment of any Treasury Bills issued under this section shall be a date not later than the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and section six of the 40 & 41 Vict. c. 2. Treasury Bills Act, 1877 (which relates to the renewal of bills), shall not apply with respect to those bills.
(3) Any money borrowed otherwise than on Treasury Bills shall be repaid, with interest not exceeding five pounds per cent. per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund, at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the money was borrowed.
(4) Any money borrowed under this section shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such Fund is available.
Short title. 4. This Act may be cited as the Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act, 1912.
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