Additional public dividend capital
4.—(1) If the Department, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel, considers it appropriate to do so, it may, instead of making a loan to an HSS trust under paragraph 1, pay an amount to the trust as public dividend capital.
(2) Article 14 shall apply to public dividend capital paid to an HSS trust under this paragraph as it applies to public dividend capital forming part of the trust’s originating capital debt.