HC Deb 03 June 1921 vol 142 c1448

  1. 1. Where under the provisions of any Act or award any payments are to be calculated on the price or value of an imperial bushel of wheat, barley, or oats, those provisions shall have effect as if the payment were to be calculated on the price or value of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty imperial pounds of barley, or thirty-nine imperial pounds of oats, as the case may be.
  2. 2. Where under the provisions of any Act or award any payments are to be calculated on the price or value of any measure of wheat, barley, or oats other than the imperial bushel, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may certify what number of imperial pounds ought, having regard to the foregoing provisions of this Section, to be substituted for that other measure, and thereupon those provisions shall have effect as if the payment were to be calculated on the price or value of the number of imperial pounds so certified.

Mr. TOWNLEY

I beg to move, in Subsection (1), after the word "award" ["award any payments"], to insert the words "or other instrument."

I understand this Amendment is accepted on behalf of the Government. Therefore, it is not necessary to go into the matter, beyond saying it is merely to safeguard those cases where there may be contracts or agreements made on a sliding scale.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: In Sub-section (2), after the word "award" ["award any payments"], insert the words "or other instrument."—[Mr. Townley.]