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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.


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