§ (1) It shall be lawful for the managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District with the sanction of the Local Government Board to enter into agreements for the reception into hospitals provided by the managers of patients suffering from any disease, and for this purpose the managers shall be deemed to be a sanitary-authority.
§ (2) Any such agreements may provide that the cost of the treatment of the patients so received, or some part thereof, shall be borne otherwise than as provided by Section 80 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
§ Mr. BURNSI beg to move to leave out the Clause.
The substance of this Clause, in an, amended form, has been inserted in the National Insurance Act (1911) Amendment Bill, upstairs. Clause 37 of that Bill, it is 'considered, meets substantially all that we sought to achieve under Clause 4 of the present Bill. In accordance, therefore, with an agreement come to and a promise given, I beg to move that this Clause be omitted.
§ Question, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.