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National Debt (Conversion Of Stock) Act 1884 1884 c. 23 An Act for giving Facilities for the Conversion of Three per Cent. Stock into Stock of a Lower Denomination, and for other purposes relating thereto. [3rd July 1884.]
Propose a change(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) The two and three-quarters per cent. stock, and two and a half per cent. stock, . . . shall be redeemable by Parliament after not less than one month’s notice at the rate of one hundred pounds sterling for every hundred pounds of the capital sums in respect of which the annuities are payable, together with the payment of all arrears of such annuities, including a proportionate part accrued since the last date for the payment of dividends. (3) Such notice shall be a resolution of the House of Commons signified by the Speaker in writing and printed in the London Gazette; and the portion of stock redeemed at one time shall not be less, in the case of two and three-quarters per cent. stock, than five million pounds capital stock, and in the case of two and a half per cent. stock, than fourteen million pounds capital stock; but subject as aforesaid, the mode of redemption shall be determined by an Act to be hereafter passed. (4) The two and three-quarters per cent. stock of annuities shall form part of the National Debt, and shall be payable by equal quarterly dividends on the fifth day of January, the fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the fifth day of October in every year. (5) The annuities created in pursuance of this Act shall be charged on the National Loans Fund with recourse to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, . . . and the provisions of the National Debt Act 1870, shall apply in the same manner, so far as may be consistently with the tenour of this Act, as if the stocks of annuities created in pursuance of this Act were part of the stocks of perpetual annuities described in the First Schedule to the National Debt Act 1870; and the two and a half per cent. stock created under this Act shall be consolidated with the two and a half per cent. stock mentioned in the said Schedule; . . .
Propose a changeIn this Act— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Two and a half per cent. stock” means the stock of two pounds 50p per centum annuities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a changeThis Act may be cited for all purposes as the National Debt (Conversion of Stock) Act 1884.
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