§ If it appears to the Board that it is desirable to extend the provisions of this Part of this Act to workmen in any trade other than an insured trade, the Board may, with the consent of the Treasury, make, in manner hereinafter provided, a special order extending this Part of this Act to such workmen either without modification or subject to such modifications of rates of contribution or rates or periods of benefit as may be contained in the order, and on any such order being made this Part of this Act shall, subject to the modifications (if any) contained in the order, apply as if the trade mentioned in the order were an insured trade and as if the rates of contribution, and the rates and periods of benefit mentioned in the order were the rates of contribution, and the rates and periods of benefit provided by this Part of this Act in respect of such trade:
§ Provided that no such order shall be made if the person holding the inquiry reports that the order should not be made, or if the order would, in the opinion of the Treasury, increase the contribution to the unemployment fund out of moneys provided by Parliament to a sum exceeding one million pounds a year before the expiration of three years from the making of the order, and that the rates of contribution mentioned in the order shall not exceed the rates specified in the Eighth Schedule to this Act, and shall be imposed equally as between employers and workmen.
§ Amendments made: After the word "trade" ["other than an insured trade"], insert the words "or to vary the definition of 'workmen' with respect to the age of the person included therein, either generally or for any particular insured trade, or any particular branch of any such trade."
§ After the word "workmen" ["or such workmen"], insert the words "or so varying the definition of 'workman' as the case may be."
§ After the word "trade" ["were an insured trade"], insert the words "or as if the definition of 'workman' were varied in accordance with the order as the case may be."
§ After the word "inquiry" ["the inquiry reports"], insert the words "in relation to the order."—[Mr. Buxton.]