{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1983/147",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1983",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "General powers of Department as to government loans",
  "text": "The Department may, in relation to a government loan—\n(a) make the loan by a single advance or by several advances;\n(b) issue an advance under a loan at such time as appears to it to be expedient;\n(c) refuse wholly, or for so long as it thinks fit, to issue any advance under the loan if—\n(i) any sum is in arrear which is payable in respect of the loan, or of any previous loan or advance made by or through the Department, to the borrower or his predecessor for any purpose (whether that sum is payable as interest or as an instalment of principal or as a periodical payment of any annuity or rentcharge or otherwise); or\n(ii) any provisions implied by virtue of Schedule 2 are not duly complied with;\n(d) before the full amount of the loan has been advanced, reduce the amount, or delay the issue, of any further advance;\n(e) refuse to make advances under the loan after 5 years from the date of the agreement for the loan.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/147/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:27.045164+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}