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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/2005-04-01</dc:identifier><dc:title>National Loans Act 1968</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to establish a National Loans Fund, to substitute the National Loans Fund for the Consolidated Fund in certain enactments, including enactments relating to Government lending and advances, the Exchange Equalisation Account and government annuities, to make profits of the Issue Department of the Bank of England payable into the National Loans Fund and to make other provision as to the said Department, to charge the whole of the national debt on the National Loans Fund, and to amend the law about Government borrowing; to make further provision for loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and to authorise advances out of the National Loans Fund for the purpose of such loans; to transfer to Votes certain payments charged on the Consolidated Fund; and generally to make provision for the management of the Government’s financial business.</dc:description><dc:date>1979-06-30</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2024-05-17</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2005-04-01</dct:valid>
					
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RestrictStartDate="2003-07-10"><Title> Audit and accounts.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/2005-04-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/13/section/21" id="section-21"><Pnumber>21</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/1/2005-04-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/1" id="section-21-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>For the financial year ending on 31st March 1969 and each subsequent financial year the Treasury shall prepare <Substitution ChangeId="key-cbe0397eb1905e6fb0bc974a4c216525-1460888999751" CommentaryRef="key-cbe0397eb1905e6fb0bc974a4c216525">an account relating to the Consolidated Fund, and an account relating to the National Loans Fund, in such form and containing such information as the Treasury consider appropriate.</Substitution></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/2/2005-04-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/2" id="section-21-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The Treasury shall send the accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General not later than the end of November following the end of the financial year to which they relate, and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on the accounts and lay copies of them, together with his report, before each House of Parliament.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/3/2005-04-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/3" id="section-21-3"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-97656bf18997cfdba3ca26622a993844"/>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/4/2005-04-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/13/section/21/4" id="section-21-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c13326421"/></Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c13326421" Type="F"><Para><Text>S. 21(4) repealed by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/39" id="c00312" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="39" Title="Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973">Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00313" CitationRef="c00312" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/39/schedule/1/part/XIII" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1-part-XIII">Sch. 1 Pt. XIII</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-cbe0397eb1905e6fb0bc974a4c216525" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in s. 21(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 212(4) of the amending Act) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/14" id="c4qqrlsn2-00007" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2003" Number="14" Title="Finance Act 2003">Finance Act 2003 (c. 14)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c4qqrlsn2-00008" CitationRef="c4qqrlsn2-00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/14/section/212/2" SectionRef="section-212-2" Operative="true">s. 212(2)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-97656bf18997cfdba3ca26622a993844" Type="F"><Para><Text>S. 21(3) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 212(5) of the amending Act) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/14" id="c4qqrlsn2-00015" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2003" Number="14" Title="Finance Act 2003">Finance Act 2003 (c. 14)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c4qqrlsn2-00016" CitationRef="c4qqrlsn2-00015" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/14/section/212/3" SectionRef="section-212-3">s. 212(3)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c4qqrlsn2-00017" CitationRef="c4qqrlsn2-00015" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2003/14/schedule/43/part/5/5" SectionRef="schedule-43-part-5-5" Operative="true">Sch. 43 Pt. 5(5)</CitationSubRef>; <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2004/2823" id="c4qqrlsn2-00018" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2004" Number="2823" Title="Finance Act 2003, Section 212, (Commencement) Order 2004">S.I. 2004/2823</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c4qqrlsn2-00019" CitationRef="c4qqrlsn2-00018" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2004/2823/article/2" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>