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The bill provides for a minimum increase in the stipulated dividends on preference shares issued
and subscribed for before 1st april, 1960 leaving it again to individuals companies to pay higher
dividends by adopting there usual procedure in this matter. The quantam of increase, as laid down in
clause 3 of the bill before its amendments by the Select Committee, was 25 percent of the stipulated
dividend on preference shares free of income tax shares on which dividend is payble without any
reduction by the company for its own income tax and 7 percent on shares the stipulated