White Fish and Herring Industries Act 1961
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1961 c. 18 |
White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1961
(9 & 10 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 18
An Act to make further provision for financial assistance for the white fish and herring industries (including advances to the White Fish Authority).
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 Extension of scope of white fish subsidy, and power to increase limit on subsidies.
(1) The power conferred by section five of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1953 and the words from ‘but no such grant’ to the end in subsection (2) (as set out in section two of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1957 ) shall cease to have effect.
(2) The power to make an order conferred by section four of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1957 (which enables the Ministers referred to in that section, by order made with the approval of the Treasury and subject to approval by resolution of the Commons House of Parliament, to increase the aggregate amount of the grants made in pursuance of schemes under section five of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1953, and of section three of the said Act of 1957) shall be exercisable from time to time, but no such increase made at any one time shall exceed three million pounds.
2 Increase of limit on outstanding Exchequer advances to White Fish Authority.
2. The limit on the amount outstanding at any time of the sums advanced to the White Fish Authority under subsection (1) of section seventeen of the Sea Fish Industry Act, 1951, as extended to Northern Ireland under section twenty of that Act, shall be increased from twenty million to twenty-five million pounds.
3 Payments out of moneys provided by Parliament and into Exchequer.
(1) Any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament under the said Acts of 1951, 1953 and 1957 shall be defrayed out of moneys so provided.
(2) Any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable into the Exchequer under section seventeen of the said Act of 1951 shall be paid into the Exchequer.
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