HC Deb 09 May 1973 vol 856 cc516-7
Mr. Dean

I beg to move Amendment No. 15, in page 17, line 3, leave out from beginning to 'below' in line 4 and insert: '10.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person who satisfies any of the three conditions of subsection (2)'.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

I understand that it is convenient to discuss at the same time Amendments Nos. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 109.

Mr. Dean

This amendment and the large group of amendments to be discussed with it are technical amendments which fall into three groups. Their purpose is threefold; first, to simplify and make more intelligible the structure of Clause 10, as was done in Committee, on parallel provisions of Clause 11; secondly, to ensure complete consistency between the wording of parallel provisions in Clauses 10 and 11; and, thirdly, to bring out more clearly on the face of the Bill the way in which increments to retirement pension are to be calculated under Clauses 24 and 25.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendments made: No. 16, in page 17, line 10, leave out from beginning to 'Unemployment' in line 16 and insert: '(2) The conditions of this subsection are that—

  1. (a) the person is under pensionable age on the day in question and satisfies the contribution conditions specified for unemployment or. as the case may be, sickness benefit in Part I of Schedule 3 to this Act; or
  2. (b) the person would on that day have been entitled to a Category A retirement pension if he had retired from regular employment on attaining pensionable age; or
  3. (c) the person is a woman and—
    1. (i) she would on that day have been entitled to a Category B retirement pension and the husband by virtue of whose contributions she would have been so entitled is dead, but
    2. (ii) she has made an election for the purposes of section 26(2) of this Act (return to work after retirement) and has not revoked her election.
(2A) A person shall not be entitled either to unemployment benefit or to sickness benefit for the first 3 days of any period of interruption of employment. (3) In the case of a person entitled under subsection (2)(a) above'.

No. 17, in page 17, line 44, leave out subsection (6) and insert: '(6) In the case of a person entitled under subsection (2)(b) or (c) above (being over pensionable age), unemployment benefit or sickness benefit shall be payable at the weekly rate at which, apart from any increase to be disregarded for the purposes of this subsection, the retirement pension referred to in the applicable paragraph of subsection (2) would have been payable; and the increases to be so disregarded are—

  1. (a) any increase (for days of increment between pensionable age and retirement) under section 24(4) or (5) or 25(10) of this Act;
  2. (b) any increase (for dependants) under section 31 or 35; and
  3. (c) where the claim is for unemployment benefit, any increase (for invalidity) under section 24(7);
and in determining for the purposes of this subsection the rate at which a retirement pension would have been payable, section 26(1) of this Act (earnings rule) shall be taken not to apply'.

No. 18, in page 18, line 19, leave out subsections (8) and (9).—[Mr. Dean.]

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