An Act to suspend for a period certain Payments on Annuities created under the National Debt Act, 1883; and to reduce for a like period the Permanent Annual Charge of the National Debt.
WHEREAS it is expedient by reason of the special war grant of eleven million pounds to provide for the application of part of the permanent annual charge for the National Debt towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty, and with that object to suspend for a limited time the repayment out of such charge of part of the capital of the National Debt: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, an...