Overseas Development and Service Act 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1965 c. 38 |
| Year | 1965 |
Overseas Development andService Act 1965
1965 CHAPTER 38
An Act to amend the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1959 and to authorise the Minister of Overseas Development to meet expenses incurred in connection with the employment of persons in overseas territories, or in respect of compensation paid to persons who are or have been so employed.
[5th August 1965]
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 Amendments of Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1959.
(1) The Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1959 shall be amended as follows.
(2) The sums to be paid out of money provided by Parliament for the purposes of schemes within the meaning of the Act shall not exceed twenty-five million pounds in any one of the three financial years ending in 1966, 1967 and 1968, and shall not exceed three hundred and ninety million pounds in all (excluding sums so paid before 1st April 1946).
(3) No such scheme shall continue in force after 31st March 1970 except so far as it makes provision for the payment out of money provided by Parliament of pensions, allowances or other benefits in respect of injuries or diseases, or aggravation of diseases, incurred by persons engaged in activities carried on for the purposes of such schemes.
(4) Proposals for loans under section 2 of the Act shall not be approved so that the aggregate amount of such loans exceeds ten million pounds in respect of the proposals approved in any one of the three financial years ending in 1966, 1967 or 1968, or one hundred and twenty-five million pounds in all.
(5) No proposals for loans under section 2 of the Act shall be approved after 31st March 1970, and no money shall be lent under that section after 31st March 1973.
(6) For the purposes of the overall limit in subsection (2) of this section on the sums to be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes of schemes there shall be left out of account any sums required by the Secretary of State in the period ending on 1st October 1957 for making payments pursuant to any scheme for the purpose of providing funds required by the Tanganyika Agriculture Corporation for carrying on the undertaking of the Overseas Food Corporation.
(7) It is hereby declared that in the definition of ‘development programme’ in section 2(5) of the Act the reference to the improvement of existing services or enterprises includes a reference to the renewal or replacement of existing services or enterprises.
2 Power to meet expenses incurred in connection with employment in overseas territories.
(1) The Minister of Overseas Development may enter into agreements relating to the employment in public or social services in overseas territories of persons designated at any time by the Minister in accordance with the...
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