8 Expenses.
(1) Any expenses incurred under this Act by the Ministry or by any other Government department (including the amount of any grant authorised to be paid by the Ministry or other department, as the case may be, under this Act) shall, subject to the provisions of this sub-section, be defrayed either out of moneys provided by Parliament or (if the Ministry so directs) by means of sums charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund:
Provided that the total amount to be defrayed by virtue of this sub-section by means of sums charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund shall not, unless and until Parliament otherwise provides, exceed the sum of [ forty million pounds].
1974 NI 4
(2) For the purpose of providing any sums which may be issued out of the Consolidated Fund under the preceding sub-section the Ministry may, if it thinks fit, borrow any sum...
1953 c.13 (NI)
(3) Moneys borrowed under the last preceding sub-section shall be repaid within any period or periods not exceeding fifteen years from the date of borrowing, and provision for such repayment may be made out of moneys provided by Parliament.]
1955 c.6 (NI)