§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ MR. DALGLISH moved that the Bill be re-committed, in order that words might be inserted to exclude Scotland from the operation of the measure.
§ Order discharged.
§ Bill re-committed.
1042§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ MR. DALGLISH moved, in Clause 3, line 5, leave out "the United Kingdom," and insert "England and Ireland."
§ MR. R. N. FOWLERsaid, that in Scotland the bank clerks already enjoyed nine holidays, while those in London only had Good Friday and Christmas Day, when the latter did not happen to fall on a Sunday, in which case they only had one holiday in the year. It was perfectly reasonable that the bank clerks in London should have the three additional holidays proposed to be given them by the Bill.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ MR. WATKIN WILLIAMSsaid, he had placed on the Notice Paper the following clause, which he had intended to move should be added to the Bill, namely—
4. In all cases where any money shall be payable upon any day made a Bank Holiday under or by virtue of this Act, the payment or tender of such money upon the next business day following such day shall be sufficient, and shall be equivalent for all purposes to a payment or tender upon such day;but upon reflection he found that his clause would not work at all. The 3rd clause said that Her Majesty might declare a particular day a bank holiday in a particular place, say London, Bristol, or Leeds; but as there was no language by which they could localize the debt in the same way as they could localize the holiday, he confessed himself unable to deal with the difficulty thus created. He did not therefore propose to move the clause.
§ Clause, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Bill reported; as amended, considered; read the third time, and passed.