HC Deb 05 December 1949 vol 470 cc1581-2

Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 1, leave out Clause 2.

5.45 p.m.

Mr. Asterley Jones

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

Perhaps it may be for the convenience of the House if I refer to this Amendment and to the next Amendment, in line 36, at the end, to insert new Clause "B."

This is purely a drafting Amendment, which came about in this way: Clause 2, as it went from this House, extended the provisions of the Finance Act, 1944, dealing with small maintenance payments and deductions of Income Tax therefrom, to the new limits of £5 and 30/- for a wife and a child respectively. But owing to the fact that Clause 3 had not been added to the Bill when Clause 2 was added it did not extend the provisions of the Finance Act to the extension from 16 years to 21 years during which payments can be made in respect of children of the marriage. The only change which has been made between the Clause as now proposed by another place and the Clause as it went from this House is that the words "sixteen years of age" are now to be deleted and the words "twenty-one years of age" added.

Mr. Monslow (Barrow-in-Furness)

I beg to second the Motion.

Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 2, line 36, insert new Clause "B"—(EXTENSION OF FINANCE ACT, 1944, s. 25): (1) In relation to payments pursuant to any order made in accordance with paragraph (c) of section five of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, or section one of the Married Women (Maintenance) Act, 1920, section twenty-five of the Finance Act, 1944 (which requires that certain payments for the maintenance of a married woman or for the benefit, maintenance or education of a person under sixteen years of age which do not exceed two pounds a week or one pound a week respectively shall be made without deduction of tax) shall have effect as if in subsection (1) of that section for the words "sixteen years of age" there were substituted the words "twenty-one years of age," for the words "two pounds" there were substituted the words "five pounds" and for the words "one pound" there were substituted the words "thirty shillings. (2) The references in the foregoing subsection to the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, and the Married Women (Maintenance) Act. 1920, shall be construed as references to those Acts as amended by this Act.