HC Deb 21 October 1918 vol 110 c551

(1) This Act may be cited as, the Midwives Act, 1918, and shall be construed with the principal Act; and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on the day of nineteen hundred and

(3) The provisions of the principal Act specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

Mr. BOOTH

Sub-section (2) of this Clause is not complete, because it says "This Act shall come into operation on the day of nineteen hundred and "

Mr. FISHER

I will put a date in on Report.

Mr. BOOTH

I submit that there will not be a Report stage. This Bill has come down from another place, and unless we put some words in here, it will not be much of a credit to this House.

Mr. FISHER

I beg to move, in Subsection (2), after the word "the" to insert the word "first."

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In Subsection (2), after the word "of" insert the word "January."

At the end of Sub-section (2), insert the word "nineteen."—[Mr. Hayes Fisher.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.