HC Deb 20 December 1906 vol 167 cc1818-9

Lords Amendments considered.

Lords Amendments—

"In page 3, line 29, after the word 'workshop,' to insert the words 'including any place which for the purpose of the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, with respect to accidents is a factory or workshop, or is included in the word 'factory' or 'workshop,' or is part of a factory or workshop;"

"In page 4, line 9, after the word 'seven,' to insert the words 'but the Secretary of State may appoint a later date (not being later than the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and eight), for any special provision of the Act to come into operation, and if a later date is so appointed, that special provision shall not come into operation until that later date."

Read a second time.

*The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. HERBERT SAMUEL, Yorkshire, Cleveland)

said that both the Amendments had been inserted in the House of Lords at the instance of the Government. They raised no point of substance, and he moved that this House agree.

Question, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendments," put, and agreed to.