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Lords Amendment: No. 25, in page 65, line 21, at end insert:
or employed by the Authority in pursuance of paragraph 13A of this Schedule.
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No. 26, in page 65, line 26, at end insert:
; and before the Secretary of State approves in pursuance of this sub-paragraph the terms of a contract to be offered to a person employed in employment to which paragraph I of Schedule 9 to this Act applies it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to satisfy himself that those terms, taken as a whole, are not less favourable to that person than the terms ogn which he is employed as aforesaid on the date when the offer is made.
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No. 27, in page 66, line 5, at end insert:
13A.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in the last two preceding paragraphs, it shall be the duty of the Authority to make, to each person who at the passing of this Act and on such subsequent date as the Secretary of State may determine is employed by a relevant body, an offer of employment by the Authority on terms which, taken as a whole, are not less favourable to that person than the terms on which he is employed by the relevant body on the date when the offer is made; and an offer made in pursuance of this paragraph shall not be revocable during the period of three months beginning with the date on which the offer is made.
(2) In the preceding sub-paragraph "relevant body" means a body which by virtue of section 27(1) of this Act is to cease or has ceased to have functions conferred on it in pursuance of section 7 of the Civil Aviation Act 1949.
§ Mr. NobleThese changes have been made to give effect to assurances which I have already given that the staff of the Air Registration Board and civil servants transferred to the Authority will be offered terms and conditions at least as good as those which they had in the Air Registration Board or as civil servants. The third Amendment provides also for the staff of the Air Registration Board to be offered employment by the Authority. The success of the Authority will depend upon its staff, and I commend these Amendments, therefore, to the House.
§ Mr. MillanI welcome these Amendments. I shall not be so uncharitable at this hour to quote back to the right hon. Gentleman the reasons which he gave in Committee for saying that they were unnecessary and undesirable when we attempted to make similar suitable provision. I simply welcome his conversion to the idea that the Amendments should be made, and I am glad to see them.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.