§ Part II of the First Schedule to the principal Act as amended by the Second Schedule 2488 to the Act of 1921, shall have effect as though they were inserted at the end of paragraph (d) thereof the following words: "and provided further that in the case of employment under a local or other public authority relative to the superannuation of persons in that employment, the Minister may, if any enactment provides for the aggregation of service in that employment under two or more employers, whether the service has been continuous or not, treat such service for the purposes of the foregoing provision as if it had been service in the same employment."
§ Lords Amendment:
§
After the word "inserted" ["as though they were inserted"], insert
therein after paragraph (c) the following new paragraph—
'(cc) employment otherwise than in a temporary capacity as a member of any police force to which the Police Act, 1919, applies;'
and as though they were inserted therein."
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Amendment is made in pursuance of a pledge I gave. Part II of the First Schedule of the main Act excepts certain employments by the Schedule itself and certain others at the discretion of the Minister. Permanent police are in the second category at the present time. They can be excepted by the Minister, but my hon. Friends thought, and I think they were right, that the police should be placed in the first category.
§ Lords Amendment:
§ At the end of the Clause to insert the words, "and paragraph (ii) of paragraph (d) of the said Part II is hereby repealed."
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
§ This is consequential on the last Amendment.
§ Lords Amendment:
§ After Clause 14, insert a new Clause—