These Rules define key terms, allow a third-issue savings certificate to be held for up to one year from the relevant date, and set the repayable amount for a unit certificate based on how long it is held.
S.I. No. 169/1985 - Savings Certificates (Third Issue Extension) Rules, 1985. S.I. No. 169 of 1985. SAVINGS CERTIFICATES (THIRD ISSUE EXTENSION) RULES, 1985. I, ALAN M. DUKES, 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: 1. (1) These Rules may be cited as the Savings Certificates (Third Issue Extension) Rules, 1985. (2) The Savings Certificates (Third Issue Extension) Rules, 1945 to 1982, and these Rules may be cited together as the Savings Certificates (Third Issue Extension) Rules, 1945 to 1985. 2. In these Rules— "the third issue" means the issue of savings certificates introduced on the 8th day of July, 1933, and discontinued on the 8th day of May, 1946; "relevant date" means, in relation to a savings certificate, the fifty-second anniversary of the date marked thereon as the date of issue thereof; "unit certificate" means a savings certificate of the third issue the purchase price of which was eighty pence. 3. A savings certificate of the third issue may be held for a period not exceeding one year from the relevant date. 4. The amount repayable at any time in respect of a savings certificate of the third issue which is held under these Rules shall be— ) in the case of a unit certificate— (i) if it is held for less than six months from the relevant date 7.89 (ii) if it is held for six months or more and less than one year from such date 8.27 (iii) if it is held for one year from such date 8.68 ) 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 6th day of June, 1985. ALAN M. DUKES, Minister for Finance. EXPLANATORY NOTE. This instrument prescribes the rules governing the eighth extension of the Third Issue of Savings Certificates.