HC Deb 23 July 1922 vol 155 cc1623-4

Any existing clerk of the peace shall be entitled by notice in writing to the local authority within six months from this Act applying to him to elect to continue to hold his office upon the same terms as he held the same immediately before the passing of this Act.

Sir A. MOND

I beg to move to leave out the words "Any existing," and to insert instead thereof the words This Act shall apply in the case of a. The object of this, with the next Amendment in my name, is to ensure that clerks and deputy-clerks of the peace in whole-time employment shall, for the purposes of the Act, be regarded as employees of county councils and so be eligible for the superannuation scheme of the county councils.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: Leave out the words shall be entitled by notice in writing to the local authority within six months from this Act applying to him to elect to continue to hold his office upon the same terms as he held the same immediately before the passing of this Act.

and insert instead thereof the words or deputy clerk of the peace, and to any person in the whole-time employment of a clerk of the peace for the purposes of his office, as though such clerk, deputy clerk, or person were in the service of the county council.

Provided that

  1. (a) any clerk of the peace holding office upon the appointed day shall be entitled by notice in writing to the county council within six months from the appointed day to elect to continue to hold office upon the same terms as he held immediately before the appointed day; and
  2. (b) the county council may, in designating any person employed as aforesaid by a clerk of the peace, make such conditions with regard to increases of salary after the appointed day and the date of retirement of such persons as they may think fit."—[Sir.A. Mond.]