§ Mr. WillisI beg to move, in page 3, line 29, after second "of", to insert "not less than".
This Amendment would substitute "not less than one month" for "one month" in Clause 3(4). As the Clause stands, an Order in Council varying the basic figure in the amount of wages excepted from arrestment must come into operation exactly one month after it is made. This follows from the Wages Arrestment Limitation (Amendment) (Scotland) Act, 1960, which introduced the present formula.
The Editor of Statutory Instruments has pointed out that this rigid provision 1737 would perhaps give rise to a difficulty in the case, for example, where the month elapsed on a public holiday, or where, for some unforeseeable reason, there was delay in the publication of the Order. It is not usual for the precise period bettween the making of a Statutory Instrument and its coming into effect to be fixed by the enabling Statute. Accordingly, the Amendment provides for the Order to come into operation not earlier than a month after, instead of, as at present, precisely a month after, the date of the making of the Order. The period would, in accordance with normal practice, be stipulated in the Order in Council.
§ Amendment agreed to.