HC Deb 01 February 1918 vol 101 cc2050-1

The National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1917, shall be amended as follows:

  1. (1) By the insertion in Section one thereof after the word "marines" and after the word "soldiers" of the words, "or other persons."
  2. (2) By the insertion therein after the words "to whom Section forty-six of 2051 the National Insurance Act, 1911, applied" wherever those words occur of the words "or who was an insured person."
  3. (3) By the substitution for the words "naval or military service" wherever those words occur of the words "naval, military, or other pensionable service."

Mr. SPEAKER

This Amendment also extends the benefit of the Act.

Sir E. CORNWALL

It affects the benefit of the Act, but in the direction of limiting rather than extending it.

Mr. SPEAKER

I beg pardon. It restricts the benefits that nurses and volunteers have hitherto had and puts them in another Clause.

Sir E. CORNWALL

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

Mr. SPEAKER

A special entry will be made.