Overseas Aid Act 1966
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1966 c. 21 |
Overseas Aid Act 1966
1966 CHAPTER 21
An Act to make provision as to the power of the Minister of Overseas Development to provide assistance to, or for the benefit of, overseas countries and territories; to enable effect to be given to an international agreement for the establishment and operation of an Asian Development Bank; to enable the said Minister to make further contributions to the Indus Basin Development Fund and to remit interest on certain advances to the Commonwealth Development Corporation; to amend section 2 of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1959 and section 1 of the Commonwealth Teachers Act 1960; and to provide for the establishment and administration of an Overseas Service Pensions Scheme.
[3rd August 1966]
Be it enacted by the Queen'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 Power of Minister of Overseas Development to provide assistance to, or for the benefit of, overseas countries.
(1) The functions of the Minister of Overseas Development (hereafter in this Act referred to as ‘the Minister’) shall include power, subject to the following provisions of this section, for the purpose of promoting the development of, or maintaining the economy of, a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or the welfare of its people, to furnish any person or body with assistance, whether financial, technical or of any other nature; and any such assistance may be provided on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as the Minister may determine, and in particular any such assistance, other than financial, may be provided free of charge or on such terms as to payment as the Minister may determine, or, being financial, may be provided by way of grant or loan, or partly in one way and partly in the other, so however that no assistance shall be provided by way of loan except on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any), as may be approved by the Treasury.
(2) For the purpose of enabling him to furnish technical assistance under this section, the Minister may undertake, or promote the undertaking of, such research in the fields of economic development, administration and social services as appears to him appropriate.
(3) Except in so far as subsection (1) above relates to the furnishing of technical assistance, the said subsection shall not, subject to the provisions of the next following subsection, have effect in relation to a country or territory in respect of which a scheme may be made under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1959 , and the power to provide technical assistance in respect of such a country or territory under subsection (1) above shall be in addition to the power to provide such assistance by means of a scheme under that Act.
(4) The last foregoing subsection shall not prevent the Minister from making from time to time grants under subsection (1) above to any of the following governments, that is to say, the governments of the Federation of South Arabia, Aden, the Island of Perim, the Kuria Muria Islands and Kamaran, and any government (other than that of the said Federation) established for any part or parts of the Protectorate of South Arabia, for the purpose of enabling the government to defray any amount by which it appears to him that their resources are or will be insufficient to enable them to defray their administrative expenses; and the power to make such grants shall be in addition to the power to make grants under a scheme under the said Act of 1959.
(5) After the passing of this Act no scheme under the said Act of 1959 shall be made as respects a territory, other than Tonga, which is for the time being a protected state for the purposes of the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965, nor shall a loan thereunder be made to the government of such a territory, other than Tonga.
(6) Any expenses incurred by virtue of this section by the Minister shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
(7) Any sums received by the Minister by way of payment of interest on, or repayment of, a loan made under the powers conferred by this section or by way of payment for any assistance under this section, other than financial assistance, shall be paid into the Exchequer.
(8) In this section—
(a ) any reference to technical assistance is a reference to assistance in the fields of economic development, administration and social services, consisting in the making available of the services of any body or person, training facilities, the supply of materials, or the results of research undertaken in any such fields;
(b ) any reference to a body or person, in relation to a country or territory, includes a reference to the government of that country or territory.
(9) No payments shall be made by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section to, or to the order of, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the purposes of the Indus Basin...
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