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title: "Public Works Loans Act 1944"
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# Public Works Loans Act 1944

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Public Works Loans Act 1944
1944 c.16
An Act to grant money for the purpose of certain local loans out of the Local Loans Fund and for other purposes relating to local loans, and to enable the functions of the secretary of the Public Works Loan Commissioners to be performed, in the event of his inability to act, by an assistant secretary.
[21st March 1944]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1}



## 4 Performance of functions of the Public Works Loans Secretary in event of illness, etc. {#section-4}

(1) If and so long as it appears to the Treasury that the person holding office as the Public Works Loans Secretary (see section 6 of the Public Works Loans Act 1875) is through illness, absence or other sufficient cause unable to act, they may authorise any of his assistant secretaries to perform all or any of the functions of the Public Works Loans Secretary, and anything done by an assistant secretary in pursuance of any such authority shall have the same effect as if done by the Public Works Loans Secretary.
(2) Where anything is done by an assistant secretary ... in purported exercise of the powers conferred by this section, he shall be presumed, unless and until the contrary is shown, to have acted in pursuance of an authority duly given under this section ... .

## 5 Short title. {#section-5}

This Act may be cited as the Public Works Loans Act 1944.

## SCHEDULE {#schedule}

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