HC Deb 21 April 1947 vol 436 cc721-2
Mr. Westwood

I beg to move, in page 50, line 34, to leave out from the second "of," to the end of the Clause, and to insert: officers who are employed by any one oz more of the following bodies, that is to say—

  1. (a) any body constituted under this Act,
  2. (b) local health authority,
  3. (c) an education authority,
  4. (d) any such voluntary organisation as referred to in section sixty-one of this Act—
and who are so employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of the provision of such services as are referred to in section two of this Act, and no officer to whom the regulations apply shall be employed otherwise than in accordance with the regulations. This Amendment is put down to meet a criticism expressed on the Committee stage that the Clause would have enabled regulations dealing with qualifications, remuneration and conditions of service to apply to officers who devoted only a very small part of their time to health service work, such as a town clerk of a large burgh. Technically this would have been the position although, of course, regulations would have related only to that small part of the officer's time. I never had any intention of making regulations applying to such officers, and the proposed redrafting makes it clear that the regulations apply only to officers more than half of whose employment is on health service.

Amendment agreed to.