§ Read 3a (according to Order).
§ Clause 2:
§ Amendment of section 13 of 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 57.
§ 2.Notwithstanding the increase in the rate of unemployment benefit effected by this Act the expression "unemployment benefit under the principal Act" in subsection (1) of section thirteen of the National Insurance (Part II. Unemployment) Act, 1914 (which limits the power to make or continue arrangements with associations under section one hundred and five of the National Insurance Act, 1911), shall, during the period ending on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty, be construed as meaning unemployment benefit at the rate payable before the commencement of this Act.
§ VISCOUNT SANDHURSTMy Lords, I have two small Amendments to Clause 2. The first is, after "expression," to insert "which is at least one-third greater than the provision represented by". The other is at page 2, after "meaning" ["construed as meaning"], to insert "which exceeds the provision represented by unemployment benefit at the rate payable after the commencement of this Act by an amount which is not less than one-third of the 967 provision represented by." I beg to move that they be agreed to.
§ Amendments moved—
§ Clause 2, page 1, line 17, after ("expression") insert ("which is at least one-third greater than the provision represented by")
§ Clause 2, page 2, page 2, line 1, after ("meaning") insert ("which exceeds the provision represented by unemployment benefit at the rate payable after the commencement of this Act by an amount which is not less than one-third of the provision represented by").—(Viscount Sandhurst.)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.