HC Deb 23 January 1945 vol 407 cc680-736

Order for consideration, as amended, read.

12.20 p.m.

The Lord Advocate (Mr. J. S. C. Reid)

I beg to move, That the Bill be recommitted to a Committee of the whole House in respect of the amendment to Clause 33, page 32, line 7, standing in the name of Mr. Secretary Johnston, and of the new Clause (Provision as to superannuation rights of contributory employees) and of the amendments to Schedule 5, page 44, line 32, column 3, and Schedule 5, page 45, line 34, column 3, standing on the Notice Paper in the name of Mr. Secretary Morrison. The first Amendment referred to in this Motion is little more than a drafting one, but it does involve the payment of money from the public funds to councils in Scotland. The second, third and fourth Amendments have been put down in view of the undertaking given on the Committee Stage to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ilford (Mr. Hutchinson) and my hon. Friend the Member for the Park Division of Sheffield (Mr. Burden).

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill immediately considered in Committee.

[Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS in the Chair]

    cc680-1
  1. CLAUSE 33.—(Temporary provisions as to expenses of registration.) 174 words
    2. cc681-3
  2. NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision as to Superannuation Rights of Contributory Employees.) 896 words
    3. c683
  3. FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Repealed.) 86 words
    4. cc683-6
  4. NEW CLAUSE.—(Business premises applications on behalf of service voters by spouse or business manager.) 1,380 words
    5. cc686-723
  5. NEW CLAUSE.—(Single transferable vote.) 15,450 words, 1 division
    6. c723
  6. CLAUSE 13.—(Registers which are to be in force for local government and Parliamentary elections.) 16 words
    7. cc724-5
  7. CLAUSE 14.—(May 1945 register.) 110 words
    8. cc725-6
  8. CLAUSE 18.—(Business premises application by Service voters.) 307 words
    9. c726
  9. CLAUSE 21.—(Adjustment of statutory time limits in connection with parliamentary elections.) 14 words
    10. c726
  10. CLAUSE 24.—(Postal voting by service voters at parliamentary elections other than university elections.) 39 words
    11. c726
  11. CLAUSE 30.—(Proxy voting by service voters at local government elections.) 39 words
    12. cc726-36
  12. SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Registration as Local Government Elector.) 4,012 words