(2) The payment of the said sum shall be a full discharge-and in satisfaction of all claims which might otherwise have been. made -by any railway company in Great Britain to which this section applies for compensation under the Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871[1], the Ministry of Transport Act, 1919[2] or otherwise arising out of or in respect of the possession by the Crown of the under-taking, railroad, or plant of such railway company or the exercise of the powers conferred by those Acts:
Provided that the rights and liabilities of the Crown or the Minister on the one hand, and of the railway companies on the other hand, under the terms of the agreements or arrangements relating to the possession by the Crown of the railways, shall, so far as regards the making good of any deficiency in the net receipts of the companies (including the payment of interest) up to the end of the period of possession, and in relation to any sums expended and liabilities incurred by the companies in respect of repairs and renewals effected before the end of that period in accordance with the said agreements and arrangements, subsist and continue.
(3) The moneys so placed to the credit of the said account in accordance with the provisions of this section, together with any interest which may accrue thereon, shall, subject to the provisions of the next succeeding section, be distributed amongst the railway companies in Great Britain to which this section applies, in accordance with such scheme or schemes of allocation as may be agreed to by such companies, or, failing agreement, as may be settled from time to time by the amalgamation tribunal, and the amalgamation tribunal shall on request issue under their seal a certificate authenticating any such scheme or schemes as may have been agreed or settled, and Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie and Company shall pay to each of the said companies forthwith the amount or amounts allocated to such company in accordance with any such scheme bearing the seal of the amalgamation tribunal, and any sum allocated to any company under any such scheme shall be deemed to become,, or to have become, due to the company on the date on which the instalment out of which the sum is payable becomes or became due.
(4) All moneys received by any of the "said railway companies in pursuance of any such scheme of allocation
