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Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970
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33Miscellaneous financial provisions.N.I.
(1)Where—
(a)the Ministry recommends that the whole or any part of the principal or interest of a loan made under this Act should be written off by reason that it not likely to be recovered; and
(b)the Ministry of Finance directs that the amount is to be written off;
the amount shall be treated as a loss to the Exchequer, but this subsection shall not affect the liability of any person to pay to the Ministry the principal of, or interest on, any such loan or part thereof.
(2)Any amount which is repayable to the Ministry under this Act may, without prejudice to any other means of recovery, be recoverable by deduction from any grant or other sum payable out of money provided by Parliament or the Consolidated Fund by a government department to the person from whom the amount is due, and that grant or sum shall be abated accordingly.
Subs.(3) rep. by SLR 1976
(4)The Ministry of Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Fund to the Ministry such sums as are necessary to enable the Ministry to make loans under section 2 or grants under section 3 [F1and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to make grants under section 4A].
(5)For the purpose of providing sums to be issued under subsection (4), the Ministry of Finance may borrow money.
(6)Money borrowed under subsection (5) shall be repaid within sixty years from the date of borrowing and provision for the repayment may be made out of money provided by Parliament.
F1Words in s. 33 inserted (29.4.2014) by Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 6), ss. 2(b), 13(1)
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