Why does the Minister want to borrow this exact sum?
Committee on Finance. - Central Fund Bill, 1958—All Stages.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to apply certain sums out of the Central Fund to the service of the years ending on 31st March, 1958 and 1959.
Agreed to take further stages to-day.
Question—"That the Bill be now read a Second Time"—put and agreed to.
Bill considered in Committee.
Sections 1 and 2 agreed to.
SECTION 3.
Question proposed: "That Section 3 stand part of the Bill".
It is always done like that. I have no intention of borrowing it all. I am following precedent.
I do not think the sum in Section 3 was ever included before.
The full amount is always given.
The full amount of what?
A sum equal to what is being voted.
Will the Minister go home? I know perfectly well. It is the total of the first two sections. That is the answer in a few words. The Minister did not know it.
Question put and agreed to.
Section 4 agreed to.
Title agreed to.
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.
This is a Money Bill within the meaning of Article 22 of the Constitution.