Saving for loans apply only to loans granted and securities made after the commencement of this Act.

and transactions under repealed Acts.

Repeal of Acts.

The Loan Commissioners shall have the same power of making further advances on any mortgage made before the commencement of this Act and intended to secure more than the sum which has actually been advanced thereon as they would have had under the Acts repealed by this Act if they had not been repealed, but such advances shall be made out of money issused under this Act.

The Loan Commissioners, on granting any new loan to persons by whom a loan granted before the commencement of this Act is still owing, may make it a condition of the grant of such new loan that the old loan shall be deemed to have been granted in pursuance of this Act, and on such condition being accepted the old loan shall be deemed to be a loan under this Act.

For the purpose of any loans granted and securities made before the commencement of this Act, the Loan Commissioners under this Act and their secretary and other officers for the time being shall be deemed to be the same commissioners, secretary, and officers as the commissioners, secretary, and officers under the Acts in pursuance of which such loan was granted and securities made, and all securities and documents relating to such commissioners, secretary, and officers shall be construed accordingly.

LVII. The Acts specified in the third schedule to this Act so far as they are unrepealed are hereby repealed from and after the commencement of this Act, and so much of any other enactment as authorizes any loan by the Public Works Loan Commissioners for the purpose of any work other than a work mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, or as is otherwise inconsistent with this Act, is hereby repealed from and after the commencement of this Act.

Provided that

(1.) The repeal of an enactment by this Act shall not affect

(a.) The charge on the consolidated fund or moneys

provided by Parliament of the principal and interest of Exchequer bonds issued under any enactment hereby repealed; nor any securities made or issued or anything duly done or suffered under any enactment hereby repealed; nor (b.) Any power to make or levy rates, or any other power capable of being exercised for the purpose of enabling or compelling the repayment of any money due on account of any loan granted by the Public Works Loan Commissioners before the commencement of this Act, whether the same or any part thereof has been actually advanced before or after such commencement; nor

(c.) Any right, obligation, or liability acquired, ac-
crued, or incurred under or in accordance with
any enactment hereby repealed; nor

(d.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in
respect of any offence committed against any
enactment hereby repealed: nor

(e.) Any powers, investigation, legal proceeding, or
remedy in respect of any such security, thing,
rate, power, right, obligation, liability, penalty,
forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid; and any
such powers, investigation, legal proceeding,
and remedy may be exercised and carried on
and had as if this Act had not passed; and

(2.) Neither this Act nor the repeal of any enactment by
this Act shall affect the issue of money for the pur-
poses
of loans by the Commissioners of Public Works
in Ireland, in accordance with the Act of the session
of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of the reign
of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-three, in-
tituled "An Act to authorize for a further period
application of money for the purposes of loans for
carrying on public works in Ireland," and the sums
mentioned in that Act may be issued in like manner
as if this Act had not passed.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Works for the Purpose of which the Commissioners may lend Money.

Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities.

Burial grounds provided by burial boards, or (in Scotland) by burial

boards or parochial boards.

Conservation or improvement of rivers or main drainage.

Docks.

Harbours and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan 24 & 25 Vict. Commissioners are authorized to lend by section 3 of the Harbours and c. 47. Passing Tolls, &c., Act, 1861.

Improvement of towns.

Labourers' dwellings.

Lighthouses, floating and other lights for the guidance of ships, buoys, and beacons.

Lunatic asylums of any county or borough in Great Britain, or of any district or parochial board in Scotland.

Police stations and justices' rooms of any county or borough in Great Britain, and the offices connected therewith, also sheriff court buildings in Scotland.

Prisons.

Public libraries and museums.

33 & 34 Vict. c. 70.

Any schoolhouse or work for which a school board is authorized to borrow 36 & 37 Vict. under the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, or any Act amend- c. 86. ing the same, or under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872.

35 & 36 Vict.

c. 62.

25 & 26 Vict. c. 101.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 101.

Waterworks established or carried on by a sanitary or other local authority.

Workhouses or poorhouses, and any work for which guardians of the poor, or (in Scotland) any parochial board, are authorized to borrow under the general Acts relating to the relief of the poor.

Any work for which a sanitary authority are authorized to borrow under the Public Health Act, 1875.

Any work for which police commissioners are authorized to borrow under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, and any Act amending the same.

Any work for which a local anthority are authorized to borrow under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, or any Act amending the same. Any work for which the commissioners are authorized to lend by any Act passed after the passing of this Act.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Form of Declaration.

I, A. B., do hereby declare that, according to the best of my judgment, I will faithfully and impartially execute the powers and duties of a Public Works Loan Commissioner according to law.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Acts Repealed.

This Schedule enumerates the Acts which are repealed by s. 57, ante, p. 532, viz. :--57 Geo. 3, cc. 34, 121; 1 Geo. 4, c. 60; 3 Geo. 4, c. 86; 5 Geo. 4, cc. 36, 77; 6 Geo. 4, c. 35; 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 47; 1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 24 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 32; 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 72; 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. e. 51; 1 & 2 Vict. c. 88; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 10; 5 & 6 Vict. c. 9; 9 & 10 Vict. cc. 80, 83; 12 & 13 Vict. c. 86; 14 & 15 Vict. c. 23; 16 & 17 Vict. c. 40; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 17; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 80; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 20; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 72; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 32; 35 & 36 Vict. c. 71; and 36 & 37 Vict. c. 49.