COMMONWEALTH BANKS.

No. 75 of 1961.

An Act to increase the Capital of the Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia by the sum of Five million pounds.

[Assented to 27th October, 1961.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Banks Act 1961.

(2.) The Commonwealth Banks Act 1959, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Banks Act 1959—1961.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Capital of Development Bank.

3.—(1.) Section seventy-five of the Commonwealth Banks Act 1959 is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) the word “and”; and

(b) by inserting after that paragraph the following paragraph:—

“(ca) the sum of Five million pounds paid by the Commonwealth to the Development Bank; and”.

(2.) The sum referred to in paragraph (ca) of section seventy-five of the Commonwealth Banks Act 1959, as amended by the last preceding sub-section, shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.