HC Deb 21 July 1920 vol 186 cc2033-4
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

I beg to move, in page 36, line 34, at the end, to insert the words (4) An employed contributor who had, on attaining the age of sixty in the case of a man, or fifty-five in the case of a woman, been continuously insured for a period of ten years or since the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and twelve (whichever period is the shorter), shall be entitled within such time and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed to pay contributions in respect of any period of unemployment as if he were a voluntary contributor. This is to do what the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Lees-Smith) suggested a, little while ago, namely, to enable these elderly contributors, if they have not been able to make up the full 26 weeks, to stamp their own cards for the missing weeks.

Amendment agreed to.

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

Bill reported.

Bill, as amended, in Committee and on re-committal, considered.