HC Deb 08 December 1919 vol 122 c1094

  1. (1)This Act may be cited as the County Courts Act, 1919, and this Act, except so far as it amends the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, shall be construed as one with the principal Act; and the principal Act and the County Courts Act, 1903, and this Act may be cited together as the County Courts Acts, 1888 to 1919.
  2. (2)This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty.
  3. (3)The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent and subject as specified in the third column of that Schedule.

Sir G. HEWART

I beg to move, in Subsection (2), to leave out the word "January" and to insert instead thereof the word "April."

It was originally intended that the Act should come into operation on 1st January. There are, however, certain Rules to be made under the Act, and we are now asking for the date to be altered from January to April.

Amendment agreed to.

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

Bill reported.

As amended, considered.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read the third time."—[Sir G. Hewart.]

Captain BENN

Do the Government really intend to take all the stages of the Bill now?

Sir G. HEWART

If the hon. and gallant Member pleases.

Captain BENN

We have taken the Second Reading of the Bill. We have also taken the Committee stage without any explanation having been given.

Sir G. HEWART

if any further explanation be desired, I am ready and willing to give it. My belief was, and is, as I have said, that this is really a non-contentious measure. But it is a measure which should not be, without good reason, postponed. If there be any particular point upon which my hon. and gallant Friend desires to be satisfied, I will gladly endeavour to satisfy him now.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read the third time, and passed.