HL Deb 02 August 1911 vol 9 cc782-5

Commons Amendments considered (according to Order).

[The references are to the Bill as printed for the House of Lords (No. 109).]

Commons Amendment.

Page 5. Line 37, leave out ("is") and insert ("and the reserve fund are").

THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (LORD PENTLAND)

I move that your Lordships do not agree with the Commons Amendment, and I shall then submit, in lieu of this Amendment, the Amendment standing in my name on the Paper.

Moved, That this House do not agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Pentland.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

Amendment moved in lieu thereof— Clause 3, page 5, line 36, leave out from ("case") to ("general") in line 37.—(Lord Pentland.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Commons Amendments.

Page 6.

Line 18, after ("books") insert ("shall be shown separately in the published accounts of the Company and shall be expended only for the purposes of this Order").

Page 9.

Line 25, leave out ("said.") and insert ("superannuation").

Page 10.

Line 21, after ("no") insert ("salaried"), and leave out ("or servant").

Page 12.

Line 19, after ("member") insert (or any person nominated by a contributing member").

Line 20, leave out from ("times") to ("on") in line 21.

Line 22, leave out ("account") and insert ("accounts and all books relating thereto and to make any copies or extracts of or from any such accounts and books").

Line 25, after ("dismissed") insert ("or retiring"), and leave out from ("service") to end of paragraph and insert (" (except as hereinafter provided) shall receive back all his own contributions, without interest, and shall have no further claim on the superannuation fund").

Page 12.

Leave out lines 31 to 37 inclusive.

Lines 39 and 40, leave out ("or from any cause except misconduct, fraud, or dishonesty").

Page 13.

Line 1, leave out from ("contributions") to ("and") in line 2 and insert ("together with an amount contributed by the company on his behalf equal to the member's ordinary contributions, without interest").

Line 3, leave out from ("fund") to end of paragraph.

Page 19.

Line 10, leave out ("one") and insert ("two").

Line 11, leave out ("director") and insert ("directors").

Line 37, leave out from ("proposed") to ("each") in line 38.

Page 20.

Line 1, after the second ("of") insert ("all or such of the candidates as may desire to attend, and of").

Line 2, after ("committee") insert ("open the envelopes and").

Line 17, after ("persons") insert ("(preferably a director)").

Page 21.

Line 33, after ("thereof") insert ("together with a report which shall contain particulars of the number of contributing members and annuitants on the books, the number of members who have died or left the service, and such other information as the Committee may decide upon").

Moved, That this House do agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Pentland.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

Commons Amendments.

Page 21.

Line 34, leave out from ("member") to the end of the paragraph, and insert ("The Report shall state also the amount of the reserve fund from time to time").

LORD PENTLAND

I move that your Lordships do not agree with the Commons Amendment, and in lieu thereof I shall move the Amendment standing in my name on the Paper.

Moved, That the House do not agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Pentland.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

Amendment moved in lieu thereof— Schedule, page 21, line 34, leave out from ("member") to the end of the paragraph and insert ("The report shall state also the amount from time to time standing to the credit of the Superannuation Fund Reserve Account referred to in the section of the North British Railway (Superannuation Fund, &c.) Order, 1911, of which the marginal note is ' Power to set aside funds to meet liabilities ' ").—(Lord Pentland.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Commons Amendments.

Page 22.

Line 11, leave out from ("on") to end of paragraph and insert ("making application to the secretary of the fund").

Line 20, leave out ("chairman for the time being of the Company") and insert ("Junior Lord Ordinary of the Court of Session").

Page 22.

Line 26, leave out ("fourteen") and insert ("twenty-eight").

Line 36, at end, insert—

35. An annual general meeting of contributing members shall be held in the month of April of each year, at such time and place in Edinburgh as the committee may determine, and the secretary shall issue a notice thereof containing the agenda and the abstract of accounts and other information printed under the provisions of Article 30 hereof, to each such member at least fourteen days prior to the date of such annual general meeting, and a contributing member may appoint any other contributing member as his proxy to vote for him at any annual general meeting and at any adjournment thereof. Notices of motions to be brought forward at any annual general meeting shall be sent to the secretary not less than twenty-eight days before the date of such meeting.

36. Every instrument of proxy shall be in writing in such form as hereinafter provided and be signed by the contributing member appointing the proxy, and shall be left with the secretary or at his office at least forty-eight hours before the time for holding the annual general meeting whereat the said instrument of proxy is to be acted on.

37. The following shall be the form of the instrument of proxy:—

I, A.B., a contributor to the North British Railway Superannuation Fund, hereby appoint CD., another contributor to the said fund, to act as my proxy at the annual general meeting of the members of the said fund to be held on the day of and at every adjournment thereof.

As witness my hand this day of

(Stamp.)
(Signed.) A.B.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Pentland.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

Bill returned to the Commons.