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order shall be made by the Minister under this subsection unless a draft thereof has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(4) The number referred to in this section as "the appropriate 5 multiplier" is the number arrived at under the second column of the Table in Part I, or, as the case may be, the fourth and fifth columns of the Table in Part III, of the Second Schedule to this Act by reference to the weight unladen of the vehicle, plus, in the case of a vehicle of the description specified in the first. 10 column of the Table in Part I of that Schedule which is used for drawing a trailer, that one of the numbers in the third column of the Table in Part II of that Schedule which is appro- priate having regard to the weight unladen of that vehicle.

(5) Sections eight, nine, eleven to fifteen and twenty-one to 15 twenty-five of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949 (which contain provisions as to the collection of the excise duties under that Act and as to other connected matters), shall have effect as if the transport levy payable in the case of a vehicle for any period were part of the duty payable under that Act in respect of that 20 vehicle for that period and as if, where a licence is in force on the appointed day with respect to a vehicle chargeable with the levy, the use of the vehicle on a public road in Great Britain on or after the appointed day and before the end of the period covered by the licence were, within the meaning of subsection 25 (1) of section thirteen of that Act, a use thereof for a purpose bringing it within a class or description of vehicle to which a higher rate of duty (that is to say, the rate arrived at by increasing the annual amount of the duty by the product of the unit charge and the appropriate multiplier) was applicable under 30 that Act:

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Provided that—

(a) the transport levy paid to a council in respect of any vehicle shall be paid by it to the Minister in accordance with such directions as may be contained in any Order in Council made under the said section eight instead. of being paid into the Exchequer; and

(b) the power conferred by the said section twenty-five to make regulations for the purpose of carrying that Act into effect shall include power to make regulations for the purpose of carrying this section into effect.

Any increase attributable to this subsection in the sums which, under section twenty-four of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949, fall to be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be paid out of moneys so provided.

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(6) In the case of each Government Department other than the Admiralty, the War Department and the Air Ministry, there shall be paid to the Minister for each year out of moneys pro- vided by Parliament such sum, if any, as the Minister may

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