HC Deb 30 November 1911 vol 32 c735

Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Insurance Commissioners that a trade or business carried on by any employers is of a seasonal nature and subject to periodical fluctuation, and those employers systematically employ persons throughout the year and work short time during the season when the trade or business is depressed, the Insurance Commissioners may make special order decreasing, as respects such persons, the employed rate of the contributions payable by the employers and contributors, to such extent and for such period in the year as may be specified in the order, and increasing such rate of contributions to a corresponding extent and for a corresponding period during the remainder of the year, and the order may contain such incidental, supplemental, and consequential provisions as may appear necessary for adapting the other provision of this Part of this Act to cases under this Section.

Amendments made: After the word "make" ["the Insurance Commissioners may make special order"], insert the word "a."

Leave out the word "decreasing," ["special order decreasing"], and insert instead thereof the word "reducing."

Leave out the word "of" ["rate of the contribution"], and insert instead thereof the word "and."

Leave out the word "of" ["such rate of contribution"], and insert the word "and."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]