(1) This Act may be cited as the Loan Guarantee Act 1963.
(2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia.
(1) The following provisions of the Loans (International Bank) Act 1958 [Act 411], namelyβ
(a) section 7 (which authorizes the Government to give guarantees and undertakings with respect to borrowings by statutory authorities from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development); and
(b) so far as they relate to guarantees and undertakings by the Government, sections 11 and 12 (which contain supplementary provisions for the implementation, among other things, of any such guarantee or undertaking), save that for the words β1950β in subsection 12(5), there shall be substituted therefor the words β1960β,
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shall apply in relation to any borrowing from that Bank by the company called Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Limited as if the company were a statutory authority within the meaning of that Act, and the borrowing were made under subsection 5(1) of the Act.
(2) If any sum is paid out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of any liability incurred by the Government by virtue of subsection (1), the Minister shall as soon as possible after the end of each financial year beginning with that in which the sum was paid and ending with that in which all liability in respect thereof and any interest payable thereon is finally discharged by the company, lay before the Dewan Rakyat a statement relating thereto.
(3) The said paragraphs 12(2)(a) and (b) (which provides for exemptions from taxation and from exchange control) shall also apply in relation to any agreement concluded, whether before or after the passing of this Act, with the Bank by the company, with the approval of the Government, in respect of any borrowing by the company from the Bank, and to any bond, promissory note or instrument issued by the company pursuant to any such agreement, as they apply to the agreements and instruments there mentioned.
The agreement of guarantee heretofore concluded between the Government in the name of the Federation of Malaysia and the Bank is hereby ratified and validated in all respects and shall have effect for all purposes as if this Act had been in force on such date and the said agreement had been duly concluded and executed in exercise of the powers conferred by or under this Act.
If a resolution be passed by the Dewan Rakyat that section 2 of this Act shall apply to any company, as they apply to the Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Limited, then the Minister may, by Order to be published in the Gazette, declare that the said provision shall apply to that company.