§ (1) The Board of Trade may, in such cases and on such conditions as the Board may prescribe, make an arrangement with any employer liable to pay contributions under this Act, whereby, in respect of workmen engaged by him through a labour exchange, or in his employ at the date of such arrangement, the performance of all or any of the duties required under any Part of this Act to be performed by the employer in respect of those workmen, whether on his own behalf or on behalf of the workmen, shall be undertaken on behalf of the employer by the labour exchange, and periods of employment, whether of the same workmen or different 935 workmen, may for the purposes of the employer's contributions, but not for the purposes of a refund of any part of the employer's contributions, be treated as a continuous employment of a single workman.
§ (2) Where any such arrangement has been made, all the periods of employment during which a workman engaged through a labour exchange is employed by one or more employers with whom such an arrangement has been made, may, subject to regulations made by the Board of Trade, on the application of the workman, be treated for the purposes of his contributions as a continuous period of employment under one employer, and those regulations may provide for the refund of part of his contributions accordingly.
§ Amendments made: After the word "contributions" ["purposes of the employer's contributions"], insert the words "under this Part of this Act."
§ After the word "contributions" ["his contributions as a continuous period of employment"], insert the words "under this Part of this Act."
§ After the word "contributions" ["part of his contributions accordingly"], insert the words "under this Part of this Act."—[Mr. Buxton.]