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An Act to authorise the Board of Trade to make advances to Wiggins, Teape & Co. Limited in connection with the construction and equipment of pulp and paper mills in the neighbourhood of Fort William, and to make grants to that company in respect of interest on such advances.
[15th May 1963]
(1)The [F1Secretary of State] may from time to time advance by way of loan to Wiggins, Teape & Co. Limited (in this Act referred to as the Company) sums not exceeding £10 million in all for the purpose of the construction and equipment of pulp and paper mills in the neighbourhood of Fort William in the county of Inverness.
(2)Sums advanced under subsection (1) above shall carry interest at 5½ per cent. per annum, and subject thereto shall be advanced at such times, and on such terms as to repayment and otherwise, as may be agreed upon between the [F1Secretary of State] and the Company; but no sums shall be advanced under that subsection after 31st December 1972.
(3)The [F1Secretary of State] may from time to time make grants to the Company in respect of the liability of the Company for interest on sums advanced under subsection (1) above, being interest accruing before 1st January 1967, of such amounts not exceeding £1·3 million in all as may be agreed upon as aforesaid.
(4)A copy of any agreement made between the [F1Secretary of State] and the Company with respect to the making of advances or grants under this section shall be laid before each House of Parliament.
(5)There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament all sums required by the [F1Secretary of State] for making advances or grants under this section; and all sums received by the [F1Secretary of State] by way of interest on or repayment of advances under this section shall be paid into the Exchequer.
(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
F1Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1969/1498, arts. 3(1), 5(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(e) and 1970/1537, arts. 2(2), 7(4)
F2S. 1(6) repealed by Industrial Expansion Act 1968 (c. 32), Sch. 4
This Act may be cited as the Fort William Pulp and Paper Mills Act 1963.
Fort William Pulp And Paper Mills Act 1963