HC Deb 05 July 1938 vol 338 c341

Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.

[Sir Dennis Herbert in the Chair.]

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to extend certain temporary provisions of the Milk Acts, 1934 to 1937, to release Milk Marketing Boards and the Government of Northern Ireland from certain obligations thereunder, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient—

  1. (a) to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of such increase in the expenditure falling to be made out of moneys so provided as is attributable to any provisions of the said Act—
    1. (i) extending by twelve months the periods in respect of which sums are to be payable to milk marketing boards under Sections one, two, and three of the Milk Act, 1934, as amended by the Milk (Extension of Temporary Provisions) Act, 1936, and by the Milk (Amendment) Act, 1937 (which Act of 1934, as so amended, is hereinafter referred to as 'the Milk Act');
    2. (ii) enabling the payments which may be made under Sub-section (1) of Section eleven of the Milk Act in respect of expenses incurred by milk marketing boards to be made in respect of such expenses attributable to any time before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and increasing by seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds the amount which may be so expended under that Sub-section;
  2. (b) to release milk marketing boards and the Government of Northern Ireland from any obligation to make payments to the Exchequer under Sections five and six of the Milk Act in respect of milk used for manufacture after the end of September, 1937."—(King's Recommendation signified).—[Captain Wallace.]

Resolution to be reported To-morrow.