Provisions). A.D. 1926. from time to time required to meet the aggregate amount of the charges in respect of salaries and expenses under the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, and under the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, in relation to the winding-up of companies in England. Annual account of and winding-up proceedings. 5 17. (1) The Treasury shall in respect of each financial year cause to be prepared and laid before bankruptcy both Houses of Parliament within one month after the end of that year, or, if Parliament is not then sitting, within one month after the next meeting of 10 Parliament, an account in such form and containing such particulars as the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, from time to time direct, showing the receipts and expenditure during that year in respect of proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act, 15 1914, and proceedings in relation to the winding-up of companies in England. Application ment Act, 1914. (2) The accounts of the Board of Trade under the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, and in relation to the winding-up of companies in England shall be audited in such manner 20 as the Treasury direct, and for the purpose of the account to be laid before Parliament under this section the Board shall make such returns and give such information as the Treasury may direct. 18. The foregoing provisions of this Part of this 25 of Part V. Act shall have effect as if references therein to bankto fees, &c., under Deeds ruptcy fees and the account to which they have been of Arrange- paid, and to salaries, expenses and proceedings under the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, included references to any fees to be taken under the Deeds of Arrangement Act, 30 4 & 5 Geo. 5. 1914 (not being fees to be taken in the Supreme Court in respect of matters arising under that Act), and to the account into which any fees taken under that Act have been paid, and to salaries, expenses and proceedings under that Act. c. 47. Provision as to marks to be used for cancelling postage stamps, PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL. 35 19. For the purpose of removing doubts it is hereby declared that the marks to be used by the PostmasterGeneral for the purpose of cancelling stamps used for 40 the payment of the postage chargeable on postal packets Provisions). may consist of such words or devices as the Postmaster- A.D. 1926. General may in his discretion think proper, including words or devices constituting advertisements in respect of the use of which as postmarks payment is made by 5 any persons to the Postmaster-General. 20. The amount of the fees to be charged under Fees under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1923, shall be so Merchant fixed, and from time to time be so readjusted, that the Shipping aggregate amount produced by those fees as from the 15 first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, up to any date shall be approximately equal to one-half of the amount certified from time to time by the Board of Trade to be the aggregate cost as from the first day of April aforesaid up to that date of the administration of 20 the services in respect of which the fees are payable. 21. (1) This Act may be cited as the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1926. (2) The enactments set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in 25 the third column to that Schedule. Acts. Short title and repeal. A.D. 1926. Provisions). SCHEDULES. FIRST SCHEDULE. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF ENACTMENTS RELATING 4 |