HC Deb 02 December 1942 vol 385 c1167

"to extend section forty-seven of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, to workmen suffering from pneumoco-niosis and to provide for the payment of benefit in the case of such workmen; to enable the Treasury to contribute to certain medical expenses; to amend certain provisions of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, relating to siliceous rock; to amend the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1925 to 1941, relating to certain dependants, to payments in the case of incapacity, to examining surgeons and to the making of rules of court; to provide for the repayment of certain sums paid to dependants of seamen by the Minister of Pensions; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid "; presented by Mr. Herbert Morrison, supported by Major Lloyd George, Sir Walter Womersley, Mr. Peake, and Mr. Tom Smith; to be read a Second time upon the next Sitting Day, and to be printed. [Bill 4.]