HC Deb 19 July 1923 vol 166 cc2461-2

Section four of the Bastardy Laws (Amendment) Act, 1872 (which provides for the making of an Order on the putative father for the maintenance, etc., of a bastard child), shall, as amended by the Affiliation Orders (Increase of Maximum Payment) Act, 1918, have effect as well for the purpose of pending applications as for the purpose of future applications as though twenty shillings a week were therein substituted for ten shillings a week, and subsection (2) and (3) of Section one of the last-mentioned Act, which relate to the variation of Orders under the said Section four in force at the date of the commencement of that Act shall extend to the variation of Orders under the said Section four which are in force at the date of the commencement of this Act, or which may be made subsequent to the commencement of this Act, with the substitution of references to this Act for references to that Act.

Lords Amendment: Leave out the words or which may be made subsequent to the commencement of this Act.

Captain BOWYER

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This Amendment is to leave out words, which were inserted in the Bill on the Report stage, at the instance of the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Foot). I accepted them provisionally, now they have been found to be unnecessary. With the consent of the hon. Gentleman and the Home Office, I desire that they should be left out.

Question put, and agreed to.