HC Deb 03 May 1951 vol 487 cc1480-1

Considered in Committee of the whole House under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).—[King's Recommendation signified.]

[Colonel Sir CHARLES MACANDREW in the Chair]

Resolved:

That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for protecting the interests of persons called up or volunteering for certain naval, military or air force service, or doing work or training by virtue of section seventeen of the National Service Act, 1948, and of other persons consequentially affected, in respect of civil rights and liabilities of theirs, it is expedient—

A. To authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any increase in the sums so payable under any other enactment which is attributable to any provision of the said Act of the present Session—

(i) (a) bringing service of any description specified in that behalf in the said Act of the present Session within the application of the provisions of section one of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948, as to compulsory national service as defined in that Act, subject to provision for securing that, where a person undertakes service of such a description, the same period shall not be reckoned both for the purposes of benefits payable to or in respect of him by virtue of that section and also for the purposes of naval, military or air force service retired pay, service pension or service gratuity;

(b) authorising the computation of benefits payable by virtue of that section to or in respect of a person performing a period of service of such a description on the basis of his having received during that period the remuneration which he would have received in what was his employment immediately before undertaking it;

(c) extending the provisions of that section as to entrants to the permanent Civil Service after such examination as is therein mentioned who performed compulsory national service as therein defined before entering the permanent Civil Service to entrants thereto who perform service of such a description as aforesaid before entering it and are persons who have been nominated for appointment or are entrants after examination other than such as is mentioned in that section;

(ii) enabling the Firemen's Pension Scheme brought into operation under section twenty-six of the Fire Services Act, 1947, to include provision for treating employment during service of such a description as aforesaid and any further period as employment as a member of a fire brigade;

(iii) bringing service of such a description as aforesaid within the operation of the provisions of subsection (2) of section one of the Police Pensions Act, 1948, as to compulsory national service as defined in that Act;

(iv) authorising the giving effect to any such provision as aforesaid of the said Act of the present Session, or to the said provisions of the Police Pensions Act, 1948, as from the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty.

B. To authorise payment into the Exchequer of any increase attributable to any provision of the said Act of the present Session in the sums required under any other enactment to be so paid.—[Mr. Robens.]

Resolution to be reported Tomorrow.