Revenue, Friendly Societies, and National Debt Act 1882

19 Quarterly payment of dividends on 2 ½ per cents

After such date as the Treasury may appoint the dividends payable in respect of the two pounds ten shillings per centum annuities mentioned in the first schedule to the [33 & 34 Vict. c. 71.] National Debt Act, 1870, shall be paid quarterly, on the fifth day of January, the fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the fifth day of October in every year, and the said Act shall be construed accordingly; and references therein to a half year's dividend shall be construed to refer as regards the two pounds ten shillings per centum annuities to a quarter's dividend.

Regulations may be made under section thirty-nine of the said Act for carrying into effect such quarterly payments in the case of stock certificates, and for the return of old coupons and the issue of new coupons for that purpose.