HC Deb 22 June 1875 vol 225 cc290-1
MR. ASSHETON CROSS

Sir, as several Questions have been put to me as to the intentions of the Government with regard to the repealing of the Master and Servant Act and the Acts mentioned in the Schedule with regard to the Labour Laws, I think it will be convenient for me to state that I find it will be more satisfactory, instead of bringing in a third Bill, to move the following new clause in Committee on the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Bill:—

(Repeal of Acts.)

"On and after the commencement of this Act, there shall be repealed:— I. 'The Master and Servant Act, 1867,' and the enactments specified in the First Schedule to that Act with the exceptions following, as to the enactments in such Schedule (that is to say):—

  1. "(1.) Except so much of sections one and two of the Act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter fifty-five, intituled 'An Act to authorise Justices of the Peace to impose Fines upon Constables, Overseers, and other Peace or Parish Officers for Neglect of Duty, and on Masters or Apprentices for Ill-usage of such their Apprentices; and also to make provision for the execution of Warrants of Distress granted by Magistrates,' as relates to constables, overseers, and other peace or parish officers; and
  2. "(2.) Except the Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seven, intituled 'An Act to explain the Acts for the better regulation of certain Apprentices;' and"
  3. "(3.) Except sub-sections one, two, three, and five of section sixteen of 'The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851,' relating to certain disputes between employers and the persons employed by them; and
II. The following enactments making breaches of contract criminal, and relating to the recovery of wages by summary procedure (that is to say):—
  1. "(a.) An Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, chapter four, and intituled 'An Act touching dyvers orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servantes of Husbandrye, and Apprentices; 'and
  2. (b.) So much of section two of an Act passed in the twelfth year of King George the First, chapter thirty-four, and intituled 'An Act to prevent unlawful combination of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better payment of their Wages;' as relates to quitting service; and
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  3. "(c.) Section twenty of an Act passed in the fifth year of King George the Third, chapter fifty-one, the title of which begins with the words' An Act for repealing several Laws relating to the manufacture of Woollen Cloth in the county of York,' and ends with the words' for preserving the credit of the said manufacture at the Foreign Market; 'and
  4. "(d.) An Act passed in the nineteenth year of King George the Third, chapter forty-nine, and intituled 'An Act to prevent abuses in the payment of Wages to Persons employed in the bone and thread lace manufactory; and
  5. "(e.) Section seventeen of an Act passed in the Session of the sixth and seventh years of Her present Majesty, chapter forty, the title of which begins with the words 'An Act to amend the Laws,' and ends with the words 'Workmen engaged therein;' and
  6. "(f.) Section seven of an Act passed in the Session of the eighth and ninth years of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, and intituled 'An Act to make further Regulations respecting the tickets of work to be delivered to silk weavers in certain cases.'
 Provided that,— (1.) Any order for wages or further sum of compensation in addition to wages made in pursuance of section sixteen of The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851,' may be enforced in like manner as if it were an order made by a court of summary jurisdiction in pursuance of this Act, and not otherwise; and (2.) The repeal enacted by this section shall not affect—
  1. "(a.) Anything duly done or suffered, or any right or liability acquired or incurred under any enactment hereby repealed; or
  2. "(b.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed; or
  3. "(c.) Any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding, and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed.

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