HC Deb 24 January 1918 vol 101 c1270

As from the first day of January, nine-teen hundred and nineteen, Part VIII. of the Belfast Corporation Act, 1911 (which provides for the certification and enrolment of midwives cractising in the city of Belfast) shall be repealed, and any woman who on that day is certified under that Pant of that Act shall be certified under Section two of this Act if she claims to be so certified before the expiration of the period specified in that Section or such extension of that period as may be granted by the Central Midwives Board, and any woman who on the day aforesaid would have been certified under the said Part of the said Act, had not her certificate been temporarily withdrawn, shall, on the expiration of the period of withdrawal, be entitled to be certified under this Act in like manner.

Brought up, and read the first time.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause be read a second time."

General M'CALMONT

Can my hon. Friend give an assurance that the Belfast Corporation approve of this Clause?

Mr. SAMUELS

I can assure the hon. and gallant Gentleman that the Belfast Corporation Were communicated with, and they proposed a Clause practically identical.

Question put, and agreed to.

Clause added to the Bill.

Bill reported; as amended, considered. Read the third time, and passed.