HC Deb 07 September 1939 vol 351 cc611-2

Amendment made: In page 9, line 20, insert: but the following provisions of this Subsection shall have effect as respects any such fireman who ceases to serve in any fire brigade in order to serve in His Majesty's forces—

  1. (i) the local authority maintaining that fire brigade shall, as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, submit to the Secretary of State a scheme containing such amendments of the regulations, Act or scheme regulating the superannuation rights of members of that brigade as will secure that any such fireman shall, as nearly as may be, have the same rights and be under the same obligations as are conferred or imposed by the said Sections of this Act on a fireman to whom the Fire Brigade Pensions Act, 1925, applies;
  2. (ii) the Secretary of State may by order approve, either with or without modifications, any scheme so submitted and when so approved the scheme shall be deemed to have had effect as from the commencement of this Act;
  3. (iii) any scheme approved under this Sub-section may be varied by a subsequent scheme submitted and approved in like manner."— [Mr Peake.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.