HC Deb 16 February 1945 vol 408 cc563-4

Considered in Committee, under Standing Order No. 69.

[Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS in the Chair]

Resolved: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make miscellaneous amendments in the law applicable to Northern. Ireland and, as respects securities issued or guaranteed by the Government of Northern Ireland, to amend certain enactments relating to trustees and savings banks, it is expedient to authorise—

  1. (a) the payment into the Exchequer of all fees and percentages under the Lunacy Regulations (Ireland) Act, 1871; and
  2. (b) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament—
    1. (i) to the registrar in lunacy in Northern Ireland and to the officers and clerks employed in the lunacy office in Northern Ireland, of such salaries and travelling and other allowances as the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may, with the concurrence of the Treasury, determine;
    2. (ii) to the medical visitors, the legal visitors and the solicitor for minors and persons of unsound mind respectively referred to in the said Act of 1871, of such remuneration and travelling and other allowances upon such conditions as may from time to time be specified by general order made, with the concurrence of the Treasury, by the Lord Chief Justice of 564 Northern Ireland, and of costs and expenses incurred by any of them in such proceedings instituted pursuant to the provisions of the said Act of 1871 and on such scale as may be so specified;
    3. (iii) of such other expenses incident to the lunacy office in Northern Ireland as the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may, with the concurrence of the Treasury, direct to be defrayed out of such moneys."—(King's recommendation signified.)—[Miss Wilkinson.]

Resolution to be reported upon Tuesday next.