§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsI beg to move Amendment No. 30, in page 7, line 17, leave out ' 3 '.
This is purely a technical Amendment due to the fact that the reference made to Clause 3 should not be in the Bill because the Clause does not make any changes of organisation that might involve a change of staffing and consequently the effects of Clause 9, which is the safeguarding Clause, are not such as to be affected by Clause 3 and the staff members are already protected by the references to Clauses 2 and 6, the two crucial Clauses in the Bill involving reorganisation.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendment made: No. 31, in page 7, line 27 [Clause 9], leave out 3 '.—[Mrs. Shirley Williams.]
§ Amendment proposed: No. 32, in page 7, line 28, leave out from `means' to end of line 32 and insert:
- (a) persons who both immediately before and immediately after the coming into force in the area of a local authority of section 2 or 6 of this Act are employed by the authority in connection with the discharge by the authority of any function which immediately 972 after the coming into force in that area of the said section 2 or 6, as the case may be, is a social services function of the authority; and
- (b) persons who both immediately before and immediately after the coming into force in the area of a local authority of—
- (i) an order under section 2(2) of this Act, or
- (ii) a direction under section 2(4) thereof, not being a direction which comes into force in that area on the same date as that on which that section comes into force therein,
§ Mr. Maurice MacmillanAre we to take it that this Amendment is consequential, and at least as technical as the others?
§ Mrs. WilliamsIt is strictly consequential.
§ Amendment agreed to.