§ Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH-COOKEasked whether men who have reached the age of seventy will be excluded from the sick and disablement benefits of the societies in which they are now insured and to the funds of which they have contributed for a considerable number of years, on the ground that they will then be eligible for old age pensions; whether he will say if that is the intention of the Bill; and, if so, what is the position of men who have Civil Service pensions amounting to a sum that renders them ineligible for old age pensions, are these men to be deprived of the fruits of their thrift and forethought by the withholding of the benefits for which they have paid, in some cases for half a century, and which were promised them by the societies at the time of joining?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the negative, and the third does not arise.