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Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 23 June 1926.

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BILL

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Amend temporarily the Coal Mines Acts, 1887 to A.D. 1926. 1919, with respect to the hours of employment

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below ground.

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, 5 as follows:

1. During the continuance of this Act, section three Temporary of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, shall have effect amendment as if the words "on not more than sixty days in any of 8 Edw. 7. calendar year" and subsection (2) thereof were omitted c. 57. s. 3, 10 therefrom.

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2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Coal Mines Short title, Act, 1926, and the Coal Mines Acts, 1887 to 1919, extent and and this Act, may be cited together as the Coal Mines duration. Acts, 1887 to 1926.

(2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(3) This Act shall continue in force for a period of

five years from the passing thereof.

(Appropriation).

ANFORD LIBRARY

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BILL

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Apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the A.D. 1926. service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted 5 to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice 10 and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

GRANT OUT OF CONSOLIDATED FUND.

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1. The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Issue of 15 Fund of the United Kingdom, and apply towards making £248,279,395 good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of out of the the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one dated Fund. thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, the sum of two hundred and forty-eight million two hundred and 20 seventy-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-five pounds.

A.D. 1926.

Power for the Treasury to borrow.

(Appropriation).

2.—(1). The Treasury may borrow from any person,
by the issue of Treasury Bills or otherwise, and the Bank
of England and the Bank of Ireland may advance to the
Treasury on the credit of the said sum, any sum or sums
not exceeding in the whole two hundred and forty-eight 5
million two hundred and seventy-nine thousand three
hundred and ninety-five pounds.

(2) The date of payment of any Treasury Bills
issued under this section shall be a date not later than
the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred 10
40 & 41 Vict. and twenty-seven, and section six of the Treasury Bills
Act, 1877 (which relates to the renewal of bills), shall
not apply with respect to those bills.

c. 2.

Appropriation of sums

voted for supply services.

(3) Any money borrowed otherwise than on Treasury
Bills shall be repaid, with interest not exceeding five 15
pounds per cent. per annum, out of the growing produce
of the Consolidated Fund, at any period not later than
the next succeeding quarter to that in which the money
was borrowed.

(4) Any money borrowed under this section shall be 20
placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer, and
shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be
available in any manner in which such Fund is available.

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

3. All sums granted by this Act and the other Acts 25
mentioned in Schedule (A) annexed to this Act out of
the said Consolidated Fund towards making good the
supply granted to His Majesty, amounting, as appears by
the said schedule, in the aggregate, to the sum of four
hundred and twenty-seven million nine hundred and 30
eighty-three thousand five hundred and seventy-three
pounds nine shillings and sevenpence, are appropriated,
and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from
the date of the passing of the Acts mentioned in the
said Schedule (A), for the services and purposes expressed 35
in Schedule (B) annexed hereto.

The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed
hereto, with the notes (if any) to such schedules, shall
be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner
as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

In addition to the sums hereby granted out of the
Consolidated Fund, there may be applied out of any

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