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(1)For the purpose of providing NESTA with an endowment to enable them to achieve their objects, the Secretary of State may, before the end of the period of one year beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, make one or more payments to NESTA out of money held in the National Lottery Distribution Fund and allocated for expenditure on or connected with health, education or the environment.
(2)For the purpose of increasing the amount of NESTA’s endowment, the Secretary of State may, at any time after the end of the period of one year beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, make an order permitting him to pay to NESTA, out of money held in the National Lottery Distribution Fund and allocated for such one or more of the descriptions for the time being mentioned in section 22(3) of the 1993 Act as may be specified in the order, such sum or, as the case may be, such sums (whether or not of equal amounts) as may be so specified.
(3)Before making an order under this section, the Secretary of State shall consult each of the bodies for the time being mentioned in section 23 of the 1993 Act.
(4)Where an order is made under this section, the Secretary of State may make the payment or payments permitted by the order.
(5)NESTA may not spend their endowment, or any part of their endowment, without the approval of the Secretary of State.
(6)In subsections (2) and (5) above, “endowment” means the aggregate of any amounts paid to NESTA under subsection (1) or (4) above.
(7)In section 22 of the 1993 Act (apportionment of money in Distribution Fund) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—
“(4)This section has effect subject to section 19 of the National Lottery Act 1998.”
(8)An order under this section shall be made by statutory instrument; but no such instrument shall be made unless a draft of it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
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