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AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - LONG TITLE

An Act to enable certain further aid to be given to industries
with a view to maintaining and increasing employment in Northern
Ireland.
[19th December 1961]
Contributions towards purchases of coal, oil, gas and electricity for
certain purposes.

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 1

1.(1) For the purpose of maintaining and increasing employment, the
Minister of Commerce (in this Act referred to as "the Minister")
may, with the approval of the Minister of Finance, by order make
provision for the payment by the Ministry of Commerce (in this Act
referred to as "the Ministry") in accordance with the order, of
contributions towards the cost incurred by registered persons

[(a)in acquiring coal or oil;

(b)in acquiring gas or electricity from a public gas or electricity
undertaking;

(c)in acquiring otherwise than from a public gas undertaking gas of
such descriptions and in such quantities as may be specified in the
order;]

(2) An order made under this Act shall be subject to affirmative
resolution.

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 2
Provisions as to orders under this Act.

2.(1) An order made under this Act may contain such provisions as
the Minister may consider necessary or desirable for the purposes of
this Act including provisions for preventing fraud and provisions for
securing economy in the use by registered persons of coal, [oil,]
gas or electricity.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1), an order
made under this Act may

(a)provide for the maintenance of a register of persons for the
purposes of this Act;

(b)prescribe conditions which must be satisfied before a person may
be registered and the circumstances in which the registration of any
person may be cancelled;

(c)require registered persons to furnish such information and to
keep, produce and vouch such records and accounts as may be
specified in the order;

[(d)prescribe the method by which the amounts of contributions shall
be calculated, so however that any method so prescribed for
calculating the amounts of contributions

(i)in respect of gas acquired from a public gas undertaking shall
be related to the cost of coal, oil and gas used by public gas
undertakings in Northern Ireland in producing gas for sale;

(ii)in respect of electricity acquired from a public electricity
undertaking shall be related to the cost of coal and oil used by
public electricity undertakings in Northern Ireland in producing
electricity for sale;

<(iii)in respect of gas other than gas acquired from a public gas undertaking shall be such that the proportion which a contribution payable in respect of such gas would bear to the cost of such gas shall not be greater than the proportion which the total contributions payable in respect of gas acquired from public gas undertakings bear to the cost of gas so acquired;]

(e)prescribe conditions upon which payment of contributions to
registered persons may be made and the circumstances in which
repayment of contributions in whole or in part may be required;

(f)provide for refusing or withholding payment of contributions to
registered persons who do not comply with such conditions or such
procedure as may be specified in the order;

(g)require public gas or electricity undertakings to furnish to the
Ministry such information relating to [the quantities and cost of
coal and oil used in the production of electricity for sale, the
quantities and cost of coal, oil and gas used in the production of
gas for sale] and the quantities of gas or electricity produced or
sold, as the Ministry may require to enable it to calculate the
amount of any contribution payable under this Act.

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 3
Offences.

3.(1) Any person who, without the written consent of the Ministry,
wilfully or knowingly

(a)uses, or authorises or permits the use of, coal, [oil,] gas or
electricity in respect of which a contribution has been paid
pursuant to an order made under or continued in force by this Act
for any purpose other than a purpose authorised or permitted by
that order; or

(b)disposes of, or authorises or permits the disposal of, coal,
[oil,] gas or electricity in respect of which such a contribution
has been paid;

(2) Any person who

(a)being required under this Act or any order made under, or
continued in force by, this Act to furnish any information or
record or account, furnishes any information or record or account
which, to his knowledge, is false in a material particular; or

Para.(b) rep. by 1969 c.16 (NI) s.31(2) sch.3 Pt.I

S.4 spent. S.5(1) rep. by SLR 1973; subs.(2) spent

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 6
Financial provisions.

6.Subs.(1) rep. by SLR 1976

(2) The contributions authorised by an order made under, or
continued in force by, this Act shall be such that, taking one
financial year with another, the aggregate amount of contributions
payable in a financial year shall not exceed [one million, one
hundred thousand pounds].

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 7
Interpretation.

7. In this Act

"coal" means

(a)bituminous coal, cannel coal, coke, anthracite; and

(b)manufactured fuel (other than coke) which is carbonised to any
extent in the process of manufacture and of which any of the
substances mentioned in paragraph (a) hereof is the principal
constituent;

"Minister" and "Ministry" have the meanings assigned to them by
sub-section (1) of section one;

["oil" means petroleum oil, coal tar and oil produced from coal,
shale, peat or any other bituminous substance, and liquid hydrocarbon
other than such hydrocarbon as is gaseous at a temperature of 16
degrees Centigrade (which is equivalent to 60.8 degrees Fahrenheit)
and under a pressure of one atmosphere;]

"public gas or electricity undertaking" means an undertaking whose
principal business is the production of gas or electricity for
public use;

"registered person" means a person registered in accordance with an
order made under, or continued in force by, this Act.

AID TO INDUSTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 8
Short title.

8. This Act may be cited as the Aid to Industry Act (Northern
Ireland), 1961.