Empire Settlement Act 1937
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1937 c. 18 |
| Year | 1937 |
Empire Settlement Act, 1937
(1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 18.
An Act to amend the Empire Settlement Act, 1922.
[19th March 1937]
Be 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:—
1 Amendment as to power of Secretary of State to co-operate in schemes.
(1) The period beyond which the liability of the Secretary of State to make contributions under schemes agreed under section one of the principal Act is not to extend (which, by proviso (c ) to subsection (3) of that section, is limited to expire on the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven) shall be extended so as to expire on the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-two:
Provided that the aggregate amount expended by the Secretary of State under any such scheme or schemes shall not exceed one million five hundred thousand pounds in the financial year commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven or any subsequent financial year, exclusive of the amount of any sums received by way of interest on or repayment of advances previously made.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in proviso (b ) to the said subsection (3) (which limits the contribution of the Secretary of State to half the expenses of such a scheme as aforesaid), the Secretary of State may contribute an amount not exceeding three-quarters of the expenses of any such scheme except—
(a ) a development or land settlement scheme; or
(b ) a scheme towards the expenses of which the Government of a part of His Majesty's oversea dominions have agreed to contribute.
2 Short title, interpretation and construction.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Empire Settlement Act, 1937 .
(2) In this Act the expression ‘the principal Act’ means the Empire Settlement Act, 1922 .
(3) This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Empire Settlement Acts, 1922 and 1937.
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