HC Deb 21 July 1965 vol 716 cc1793-4

Amendments made: In Schedule 4, page 45, line 5, leave out from "payment" to first "the" in line 6 and insert: calculated in accordance with paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Schedule 1 to this Act, is reduced by virtue of paragraph 4A of that Schedule".

In line 7, at end insert "as so reduced".

In line 29, leave out "the redundancy payment" and insert: a redundancy payment or part of a redundancy payment.—[Mr. Thornton.]

Mr. Thornton

I beg to move Amendment No. 97, in Schedule 4, page 46, line 37, to leave out from "amount" to "calculated" in line 41.

It may also be convenient with this to take the Amendment in page 47, line 8.

The purpose of these Amendments is to alter the formula for calculating rebate to employers who make payments to redundant workers under an exempt scheme, by which I mean a scheme for alternative arrangements for redundancy payments which has been agreed with the unions and which has formed the basis for an exemption order under Clause 11.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In Schedule 4, page 47, line 7, leave out "sub-paragraph (b)" and insert: sub-paragraphs (1) (b) and (2)". In line 8, at end insert: 12. Where the amount of the agreed payment is less than the amount of the relevant redundancy payment—

  1. (a) the proportion which it bears to the amount of the relevant redundancy payment shall be ascertained, and
  2. (b) the amount of the rebate shall (except as provided by the next following paragraph) be that proportion of the amount calculated in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Part of this Schedule.

In line 9, after "payment", insert: calculated in accordance with paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Schedule 1 to this Act".

In line 10, leave out from "been" to first "the" in line 11 and insert: reduced by virtue of paragraph 4A of that Schedule".

In line 13, at end insert "as so reduced"—[Mr. Thornton.]