Section 4 Performance of functions of the Public Works Loans Secretary in event of illness, etc.F8

United Kingdom

(1)

If and so long as it appears to the F1Treasury that F2the person holding office as the Public Works Loans Secretary (see section 6 of the Public Works Loans Act 1875) is through illness, absence or other sufficient cause unable to act, they may authorise F3any of his assistant secretaries to perform all or any of the functions of F4the Public Works Loans Secretary, and anything done by an assistant secretary in pursuance of any such authority shall have the same effect as if done by F5the Public Works Loans Secretary.

(2)

Where anything is done by an assistant secretary F6... in purported exercise of the powers conferred by this section, he shall be presumed, unless and until the contrary is shown, to have acted in pursuance of an authority duly given under this section F7... .

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F1: Word in s. 4(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(3)(a) (with art. 9)
F2: Words in s. 4(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(3)(b) (with art. 9)
F3: Words in s. 4(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(3)(c) (with art. 9)
F4: Words in s. 4(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(3)(d) (with art. 9)
F5: Words in s. 4(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(3)(e) (with art. 9)
F6: Words in s. 4(2) omitted (25.2.2020) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(4)(a) (with art. 9)
F7: Words in s. 4(2) omitted (25.2.2020) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(4)(b) (with art. 9)
F8: Words in s. 4 heading substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 49(2) (with art. 9)