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Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1983

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4 Treasury guarantees.

(1) In the enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act (which enable the Treasury to guarantee the repayment of the principal of, and the payment of interest on, sums borrowed by the bodies mentioned in the third column of that Schedule) for the words “and the payment of interest on” or “and the payment of any interest on” there shall be substituted the words “the payment of interest on and the discharge of any other financial obligation in connection with”. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) In section 62(1) of the New Towns Act 1981 (Treasury guarantees in respect of sums borrowed by a development corporation or the Commission for the New Towns) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words “the repayment of the principal of, the payment of interest on and the discharge of any other financial obligation in connection with”.

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4 Treasury guarantees.

(1) In the enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act (which enable the Treasury to guarantee the repayment of the principal of, and the payment of interest on, sums borrowed by the bodies mentioned in the third column of that Schedule) for the words “and the payment of interest on” or “and the payment of any interest on” there shall be substituted the words “the payment of interest on and the discharge of any other financial obligation in connection with”. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) In section 62(1) of the New Towns Act 1981 (Treasury guarantees in respect of sums borrowed by a development corporation or the Commission for the New Towns) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words “the repayment of the principal of, the payment of interest on and the discharge of any other financial obligation in connection with”.

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