Colonial Development Act 1929

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1929 c. 5
Year1929


Colonial Development Act, 1929.

(20 & 21 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 5.

An Act to authorise the making of advances for aiding and developing agriculture and industry in certain colonies and territories, to provide for the extension of the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 to 1900, to stock forming part of the public debt of certain protected and mandated territories, and to amend the Palestine and East Africa Loans Act, 1926, and section eleven of the Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1921.

[26th July 1929]

B E 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:—

S-1 Power to make advances for the purposes of colonial development.

1 Power to make advances for the purposes of colonial development.

(1) The Treasury, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and on the recommendation of the committee to be appointed for the purposes of this Act, may make advances to the Government of any colony or of any territory to which this section applies, for the purpose of aiding and developing agriculture and industry in the colony or territory, and thereby promoting commerce with or industry in the United Kingdom, by any of the following means:—

(a ) Encouraging the adoption of improved machinery and equipment for cultivation and for the preparation of agricultural produce for the market:

(b ) The improvement of internal transport and communications and the provision of equipment therefor:

(c ) The construction and improvement of harbours and the provision of equipment therefor:

(d ) The development and improvement of fisheries:

(e ) Forestry:

(f) Surveys:

(g ) The reclamation, drainage and irrigation of land:

(h ) Promoting the discovery and improvement of water supplies and the development of water power:

(i ) The production, distribution and supply of electricity:

(k ) Promoting the development of mineral resources:

(l ) The promotion of scientific research, instruction and experiments in the science, methods and practice of agriculture and industry, the organisation of co-operation, and instruction in the growing and marketing of produce:

(m ) The promotion of public health:

(n ) Assisting the Government of the colony or territory in defraying in whole or in part, during a period not exceeding ten years from the raising of the loan, the interest payable by the Government on any loan raised after this section comes into operation for any purpose for which an advance might have been made under this section, including any loan raised under the Palestine and East Africa Loans Act, 1926 :

(o ) Any other means which appear calculated to achieve the purpose aforesaid.

(2) Advances under this section may, subject as hereinafter provided, be made either by way of grant or by way of loan, or partly in one way and partly in the other, and on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Treasury may think fit, and may be applied by the Government to which they are made either directly or through any person or body of persons:

Provided that the Secretary of State—

(a ) shall satisfy himself that fair conditions of labour will be observed in the execution of all works the cost of which is to be defrayed in whole or in part out of an advance, and in particular—

(i) that the wages paid will be at...

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