§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
§ Sir V. HENDERSONOn the Second Reading of this Bill on Friday last, the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) asked a question about this Clause, which I promised to answer. He wanted to know why in this Clause we are repealing Sections 90, 91, 92 and 94 and one Schedule of the Act of 1901. The reason is this: The 1911 Act was passed, as he 1570 may remember, in a rather peculiar way. Sub-section (2) of Section 1, says:
Any regulations so made shall have effect as if embodied in Part V of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901…..and may be substituted for the provisions contained in sections ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two, and ninety-four, and the Fourth Schedule.In other words, these sections of the Act in 1901, which we are now repealing, have been a dead letter ever since the Act of 1911 was passed. The hon. Member will agree that, where legislation is a dead letter, it is very much better that it should be repealed. That is the reason we are repealing these Sections.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill reported, without Amendment; read the Third time, and passed, without Amendment.
§ The remaining Government Orders were read and postponed.