§ (2) This Act, in its application to Scotland, shall be subject to the following provisions:
- (a) References to the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, shall be construed as references to the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act, 1919; and
- (b)"Local authority" means any county council, town council, parish council, or other authority whatsoever having power to levy an assessment or rate the proceeds of which are applicable to public local purposes and which is leviable on lands and heritages and includes any sum which, though obtained in the first instance by a precept, certificate, or other document requiring payment from some authority or officer, is or can be ultimately raised out of a rate, and includes any combination of local authorities under this Act: Provided that this Act shall not apply to any such local authority or combination of local authorities which at the time when this Act was adopted employed less than fifty officers or servants proposed to be designated as officers or servants for the purpose of this Act;
- (c) References to the Arbitration Act, 1889, shall not apply.
§ This is purely a drafting Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
Mr. C. D. MURRAYI beg to move, in Sub-section (2, a), to leave out the words
an assessment or rate the proceeds of which are applicable to public local purposes and which is leviable on lands and heritages and includes any sum which, though obtained in the first instance by a precept, certificate, or other document requiring payment from some authority or officer, is or can be ultimately raised out of a rate,and to insert instead thereof the wordsor to borrow on the security of a rate.1626 Otherwise the district control board would not be covered.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§
Further Amendments made: In Subsection (2, c), leave out the words
any such local authority or combination of local authorities which at the time when this Act was adopted employed less than fifty,
and insert instead thereof the words
a local authority, other than a county, town, or parish council or an education authority or a district board of control or a combination of such authorities employing fifty or more.
At the end of Sub-section (2, c), insert the words
Rate' means an assessment or rate the proceeds of which are applicable to public local purposes and which is leviable on lands and heritages, and includes any sum which though obtained in the first instance by a precept certificate or document requiring payment from some authority or officer is, or can he, ultimately raised out of a rate;
(d) This Act shall not apply to any county or town clerk who shall be fifty-five years of age or more at the appointed day if within six months after such appointed day he gives notice in writing to the council of his desire." —[Mr. C. D. Murray.]
Mr. C. D. MURRAYI beg to move, at the beginning of Sub-section (2, d), to insert the words "Section twenty-nine of this Act and."
This is in consequence of Clause 29 having been altered. We are agreed that in Scotland clerks of the peace and clerks of county councils are in a different position, and this Amendment elides the application of Clause 29.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill he now read the Third time."—[Sir H. Nield.]
§ Sir F. BANBURYI have been only too willing to allow my hon. and learned Friend to get his Report stage through without any of us knowing what was being done in order that we might take the Third Reading next Friday, when we can have some discussion on it. It is quite clear that on a very important Bill of this kind it is absolutely necessary that we should have some short interval during which we might look at the Bill and understand it in its final form.
§ It being Four of the Clock, the Debate stood adjourned.
§ Debate to be resumed upon Friday next (30th June).