MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS

HC Deb 27 July 1981 vol 9 c913

Lords amendment: No. 7, in page 25, line 28, at end insert subject, in the case of the repeals included in Part I, to the saving at the end of that Part.

Mr. Goodhart

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this we may take Lords amendment No. 20.

Mr. Goodhart

These two amendments relate to the first part of schedule 5, which contains repeals consequent upon the assimilation of the women's Services for the purposes of statute law provided for in clause 20. The object of clause 20 and schedule 3, to which it gives effect, is to clarify how various references to the Services in legislation are to be interpreted. In consequence, it is no longer necessary to retain a large number of separate references to women's Services in existing statutes, and those are repealed in schedule 5.

However, we believe it right to make it clear that the repeal will not affect any claim by a member of the women's Services that relates to service prior to the date of repeal, and amendment No. 20, to which amendment No. 7 gives effect, will put the matter beyond doubt.

I commend the amendments to the House.

Question put and agreed to.

Lords amendments Nos. 8 and 9 agreed to.