S.I. No. 170/1982 - Savings Certificates (Fourth Issue Extension) Rules, 1982.

1. (1) These Rules may be cited as the Savings Certificates (Fourth Issue Extension) Rules, 1982.

(2) The Savings Certificates (Fourth Issue Extension) Rules, 1957 to 1979, and these Rules may be cited together as the Savings Certificates (Fourth Issue Extension) Rules, 1957 to 1982.

2. In these Rules—

"the fourth issue" means the issue of savings certificates introduced on the 25th day of July, 1946, and discontinued on the 26th day of April, 1952;

"relevant date" means, in relation to a savings certificate, the thirty-sixth anniversary of the date marked thereon as the date of issue thereof;

"unit certificate" means a savings certificate of the fourth issue, the purchase price of which was eighty pence.

3. A savings certificate of the fourth issue may be held for a period not exceeding three years from the relevant date.

4. The amount repayable at any time in respect of a savings certificate of the fourth issue which is held under these Rules shall be—

(

a

) in the case of a unit certificate—

£

(i) if it is held for less than six months from the relevant date ...

4.09

(ii) if it is held for six months or more and less than one year from such date ... ...

4.26

(iii) if it is held for one year or more and £ less than one and one half years from such date ... ... ... ... ...

4.46

(iv) if it is held for one and one half years or more and less than two years from such date

4.67

(v) if it is held for two years or more and less than two and one half years from such date ... ... ... ... ...

4.90

(vi) if it is held for two and one half years or more and less than three years from such date ... ... ... ... ...

5.17

(vii) if it is held for three years from such date ... ...

5.44

(

b

) in any other case, in a proportionate manner.

5. Subject to the provisions of these Rules, the Savings Certificates Rules, 1926, shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to a savings certificate which is held under these Rules.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 1st day of June, 1982.

RAY MACSHARRY.

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This instrument prescribes the rules governing the sixth extension of the Fourth Issue of Savings Certificates.

S.I. No. 170 of 1982.

SAVINGS CERTIFICATES (FOURTH ISSUE EXTENSION) RULES, 1982.

I, RAY MACSHARRY, Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 30

(2) of the

Finance Act, 1940

(No. 14 of 1940), hereby make the following rules