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POLICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 31

Expenses of the Ministry.

31.(1) The Ministry shall pay to the Police Authority at such times, in such
manner and subject to such conditions as the Ministry with the approval of the
Ministry of Finance may think fit, such sums as are necessary to defray
approved expenditure not defrayed under subsection (2).

(2) The Police Authority shall comply with such directions as the Ministry,
with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may give as to the application
of moneys which the Authority receive otherwise than under subsection (1), and
to the extent that any statutory provision or any such direction does not
require the moneys to be applied in a particular manner or for a particular
purpose the Authority shall apply those moneys in the defrayment of approved
expenditure.

(3) The Police Authority may borrow, by way of temporary loan or overdraft
from a bank or otherwise, any sum which they may temporarily require for the
purposes of defraying expenses pending the receipt of moneys receivable by the
Authority:

Provided that

(a)the total amount for the time being outstanding on foot of such borrowings
does not exceed such sum as the Ministry may with the approval of the Ministry
of Finance specify to the Authority in writing;

(b)all sums so borrowed shall be repaid before the expiration of the financial
year in which such sums are borrowed.

(4) The Police Authority may, with the prior consent of the Ministry given
with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, borrow or raise money, on such
terms and subject to such conditions as [the Secretary of State] may approve,
upon the security of any property or assets of the Authority for all or any of
the following purposes

(a)meeting expenses incurred in connection with any permanent work the cost of
which is properly chargeable to capital;

(b)redeeming any loan previously borrowed or raised under this section; or

(c)any other purpose for which capital moneys may properly be applied.


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