HC Deb 29 November 1917 vol 99 cc2311-2

RULE 37. These Rules shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications, namely:

The inspector of poor in each parish shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January and the fifteenth day of July in each year send to the registration officer for the county or burgh, as the case may be, a list in the prescribed form duly certified by him of all persons of twenty-one years of age or over resident in the parish or occupying lands or premises therein who have been in receipt of poor relief (other than medical relief) for thirty days or more in the aggregate during the six months preceding the said fifteenth day of January or of July, as the case may be.

The provision for the transmission of a copy of the register to the Local Government Board shall not apply.

The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Munro)

I beg to move to leave out the words from "namely" to the word "be" ["as the case may be"], and to insert instead thereof the words, "The Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board."

Mr. WATT

I think we should have some explanation, because this is no ordinary change which is being made; it means leaving out eight or ten lines and substituting a single line.

7.0 P.M.

Mr. MUNRO

I was going to give an explanation, but the hon. Member, with his usual alertness, intervened. It is a simple matter. The omission is consequential on the changes made in Clause 8, with reference to the disqualification for poor relief. That is the reason for the disappearance of the words I am moving to leave out, and the words I am inserting are purely formal.

Amendment agreed to.