§ Any employer may in lieu of paying as they become due the contributions to which he is liable under this Part of this Act in respect of any workman, on his own account and on behalf of the workman, pay in advance a contribution in respect of that workman at such reduced rates as is specified in Part II. of the Eighth Schedule to this Act or at such other rate as the Board of Trade, with the approval of the Treasury, may prescribe; and where such a contribution has been paid by an employer, he shall be entitled to recover from the workman in respect of whom the contribution has been paid, and to deduct from his wages, the same sums as he would have been entitled to recover and deduct if he had made the ordinary weekly or other periodical contributions on behalf of the workman, and the sums which he is so entitled to deduct shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be treated as contributions made by the workman:
§ Provided that if in the course of the period in respect of which the contribution in advance was paid, the workman becomes entitled, or would, had he taken the necessary steps, have become entitled, to unemployment benefit, and is subsequently reemployed by the same employer, the contribution so paid in advance shall not cover any part of the period of such re-employment.
Mr. BUXTONI beg to propose to leave out the Clause.
I am bringing up a fresh Clause practically turning this in the opposite direction, and it would be for the convenience of the Committee to discuss the general principle involved in it when the new Clause comes on.
§ Question, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.
Mr. BUXTONI beg to move, "That the Committee do now adjourn until Tuesday next, November 14th, at 11.30 o'Clock.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Adjourned accordingly at Five minutes before Five o'Clock.