§ Mr. GalbraithI beg to move, in page 8, line 29, to leave out from the beginning to "shall" in line 35 and to insert:
Subject to the provisions of this section, where a local health authority have established or made arrangements for the provision of a centre for suitable training and occupation in pursuance of the last foregoing section, that authority may, after consultation with the parent of a child who has been reported as aforesaid by the education authority, direct that that child, if of school age,".717 This is largely a drafting Amendment to tidy up the wording of the Clause following the acceptance of an Amendment moved by the Opposition in Committee to require prior consultation with the parent before requiring a child to attend an occupation centre. The Amendment also has the effect of ensuring that the local health authority's power to compel attendance at a training centre will apply not only where the authority itself has established a centre or has made arrangements with a voluntary organisation for the provision of a centre but also where it has made arrangements with another local authority for the provision of a centre.The last case was, unfortunately, not covered in the original wording of the Clause, and I accordingly recommend acceptance of the Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ 5.30 p.m.
§ Mr. GalbraithI beg to move, in page 8, line 40, to leave out from beginning to "that" in line 41 and to insert:
A local health authority shall not give a notice under this section unless they are satisfied— (a).This Amendment, read with the next one, ensures that before it gives notice requiring the attendance of a child at an occupation centre a local health authority must be satisfied not only that the child is not already receiving training comparable with that which he would receive at the centre but also that there is no reasonable cause for his failure to receive such training. The Amendment thus meets an undertaking which I gave in Committee.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Further Amendment made: In page 8, line 43, after "centre", insert:
(b) that there is no reasonable cause within the meaning of the next following section for his failure to receive such training as aforesaid.—[Mr. Galbraith.]