The F11Treasury may from time to time make regulations for carrying into effect this Act, and in particular with respect to F12... the authentication of documents made or issued or directions given or acts done by them, and with respect to F13local loans and applictions therefor, and annual and quarterly statements of the amounts required to be borrowed, and the information to be given and conditions to be complied with by the applicants, and with respect to the forms to be used, including the forms of the securities, and with respect to any fees or sums to be paid by the applicants or by other persons dealing with F14the Treasury, and with respect to the relations between F14the Treasury . . . F1 and the Bank of England.

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F16Any power conferred by this Act to make regulations shall be exercisable by statutory instrument and any such statutory instrument shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament . . . F2.

Regulations made under this section may be from time to time rescinded, altered, and added to in like manner as the original regulations.

The Treasury shall keep at the Bank of England such account, in respect of local loans, as they deem necessary and under such title as they deem appropriate.

The warrant of the Treasury issued under the authority of this Act shall be a sufficient authority to the Bank of England for doing the things thereby directed to be done for the purposes of this Act, and copies of any such warrant relating to the borrowing of money shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, within one month of the date thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not within one month after the then next meeting of Parliament.

The receipt in writing of the Bank of England, or one of their cashiers or other the proper officer for the purpose of the Bank of England, and any other prescribed receipt for any money paid in discharge of the principal or interest of any F17local loan, or of any sum due under any security made under this Act or otherwise payable to or by the direction of the F18Treasury or the Public Works Loans Secretary, in respect of local loans, shall be a complete discharge to the person paying the same.

Notices, directions, orders, and documents required by this Act, or by any regulation made under this Act, to be served or sent may, unless otherwise expressly provided, be served and sent by post, and, until the contrary is proved, shall be deemed to have been served and received respectively at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post; and in proving such service or sending it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice, direction, order, or document was prepaid, and properly addressed, and put into the post.

Notices, and documents required by this Act, or by any regulation made under this Act, to be served on the F19Treasury, may be so served by serving the same on F20the Public Works Loans Secretary, or by sending the same addressed to or delivering the same F21to the offices of the Treasury.

Notices and documents required for the purposes of this Act or of any regulation made thereunder, to be served by or on the F19Treasury, or to be made or issued by the F19Treasury, shall be in writing or in print, or partly in writing and partly in print.

Except so far as a special Act, by express reference to some part of this Act, alters that part, every loan made F22under such special Act shall, notwithstanding any provision in such special Act and any rule of law or custom, be made in accordance with and under the powers of this Act F23and the National Loans Act 1968, and be re-payable in manner provided by this Act, and by the security for the same granted under this Act; and every such loan, together with the security for the same, shall have the priority and be subject to the powers, authorities, and remedies mentioned in this Act; and although made in pursuance of a special Act, shall be deemed for all purposes to be a F24local loan.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—

• The expression “person” includes a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate:

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• The expression “financial year” means the year ending the thirty-first day of March:

• F26The expression “local loan” means a loan made in pursuance of section 3 of the National Loans Act 1968:

• The expression “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations made under this Act F25... :

• F27The expression “special Act” means any Act under which local loans may be made by the Treasury and for the purposes of sections 18 and 50 of this Act only, any Act relating to any person having power to borrow money from the Treasury as a local loan:

• The expression “security” includes a mortgage:

• The expression “mortgage” includes a charge and any instrument in the nature of a mortgage or charge, and in Scotland any heritable security:

• The expression “conveyance” includes any grant, assignment, transfer, or other disposition or assurance; and the expression “convey” shall be construed accordingly:

• The expression “rate” means a rate, cess, or assessment the proceeds of which are applicable to public local purposes and leviable on the basis of a valuation of property, and includes any sum which, though obtained in the first instance by a precept, certificate, or other instrument requiring payment from some authority or officer, is or can be ultimately raised out of a rate, as before defined, and the making and levying of a rate includes the issue and enforcement of any such precept, certificate, or instrument as aforesaid, and expressions relating to the making and levy of a rate shall be constured accordingly:

Any toll, due, rent, imposition, and other sum not being a rate as above defined shall be deemed to be property for the purposes of this Act.

All references to a mortgagor or borrower shall, if need be, be deemed to include a reference to the successors heirs executors administrators and assigns of, or other persons claiming through or under such mortgagor or borrower.