HC Deb 21 July 1965 vol 716 cc1754-5
Mr. Thornton

I beg to move, Amendment No. 56, in page 23, line 22, after "payment" to insert "(a)".

May we take with this the next two Amendments? These Amendments relate to the situation where a worker has been unable to obtain from the employer payment of either the whole or part of the sum due to him under the provisions of the Bill. The Ministry is then empowered by this Clause 29 to make direct to the worker payment which the employer has failed to make. This is a straightforward piece of mechanics, which I hope the House will accept.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In page 23, line 26 after "Minister", insert: "and (b) any decision of a tribunal requiring the employer's payment to be paid to the employee shall have effect as if it required that payment, or, as the case may be, that part of it which the Minister has paid, to be paid to the Minister".

In line 27 leave out from "Minister" to "shall" in line 28 and insert "by virtue of this subsection".—[Mr. Thornton.]