§ Except as otherwise provided by this Act, the funds for providing the benefits conferred by this Part of this Act and defraying the expenses of the administration of those benefits shall be derived as to seven-ninths (or, in the case of women, three-fourths) thereof from contributions made by or in respect of such contributors by themselves or their employers, and as to the remaining two-ninths (or, in the case of women, one-quarter) thereof from moneys provided by Parliament.
§ Amendment made: Leave out the word "such" ["of such contributors by themselves"], and insert instead thereof the word "the."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]