Local Authorities Loans Act : ISSUE OF SHORT-TERM BILLS Indian Bare Acts :

Local Authorities Loans Act,1914

Act No : 9

Section : ISSUE OF SHORT-TERM BILLS

SECTION 06: ISSUE OF SHORT-TERM BILLS

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 26 of the Indian Paper Currency Act, 1910, the local authorities mentioned in Schedule I and any other local authority to which the16[appropriate Government] may, by notification in the17[Official Gazette], extend the provisions of this section, may, with the previous sanction of the16[appropriate Government], borrow money by means of the issue of bills or promissory notes payable within any period, not exceeding twelve months, for any purpose for which such local authority may lawfully borrow money under any law for the time being in force:

Provided that the amount of the bills or promissory notes which may be so issued, shall not exceed, when the amount of the other moneys for the time being borrowed by such local authority is taken into account, the total amount which such local authority is empowered by law to borrow.

(2) The 16[appropriate Government] may, by general or special order, regulate the conditions on which money may be borrowed or repaid under this section.