Orders of the Day — Czecho - Slovakia (Financial Claims and Refugees) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 24 January 1940.
Resolution reported:
That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the Government of India Act, 1935, and the Government of Burma Act, 1935, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of such sums as may be payable therefrom by reason of provisions, whether retrospective of not, which—
and to authorise the payment out of revenues of India or Burma of such sums as may become payable therefrom by reason of any of the provisions of the said Act of the present Session.
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