§ (1) In the year nineteen hundred and fifty-eight or such earlier year not earlier than nineteen hundred and fifty-six as the Secretary of State may determine, the Secretary of State shall, in consultation with such associations and persons as he may think fit, investigate the operation of the provisions of this Act relating to the weekly close time.
§ (2) The Secretary of State shall cause a report of the result of any investigation under this section to be laid before Parliament.—[Mr. McNeil.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
Mr. McNeilI beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
I will move this Motion formally, with your permission, Mr. Bowles, and the permission of the Committee, because in discussing an earlier Clause we also discussed this Clause.
§ Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.