HC Deb 17 February 1938 vol 331 c2198

Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.

[Captain BOURNE in the Chair.]

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the National Health Insurance Act, 1936, in relation to persons who are, or who since the first day of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, have been, employed in the manner mentioned in Subsection (2) of Section two of that Act, and to make consequential amendments in the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1936, it is expedient to authorise the payment, out of moneys provided by Parliament, of the sums necessary to defray such increase in any expenditure which by the National Health Insurance Act, 1936, or the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936, is directed to be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament as is attributable to the operation of the said Act of the present Session."—(King's Recommendation signified).—[Sir K. Wood.]

Resolution to be reported upon Monday next.