§ Order of the Day for the Third Reading read.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 3a (Viscount Astor.)
§ On Question, Bill read 3a.
§ VISCOUNT ASTORMy Lords, there is a series of Amendments on the Paper, all of which are purely drafting, and probably it would suit the convenience of your Lordships if I moved them en bloc.
§ Amendments moved—
§ Clause 5, page 3, line 6, leave out the first ("or")
§ Clause 5, page 3, line 8, leave out the first ("and")
§ Clause 5, page 3, line 17, leave out the first("and")
§ Clause 5, page 3, line 42, after("pension") insert("under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1919")
§ Clause 8, page 7, line 26, after ("pension") insert ("under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1919")
§ Clause 10, page 7, line 36, leave out ("employment") and insert ("such employment as to make the person engaged therein an employed person")
§ Clause 10, page 8, line 1, after the first("person") insert("or class of persons"), and after the second ("person") insert ("or class of persons")
§ Clause 11, page 10, line 8, leave out from ("Act") to the end of line 9.
§ Clause 16, page 14, line 24, leave out ("three years") and insert ("the expiration of three years from the commencement of this Act")
§ Clause 18, page 18, line 38, leave out from ("the") to("there ") in line 39, and insert ("fourth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-one")
§ Clause 18, page 19, line 9, leave out ("a sum to") and insert ("such sum as may")
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Clause 20, page 20, line 38, at end insert ("and
(b) the general provisions of this Act shall not, except in so far as they are applied by a supplementary scheme apply to or have effect in relation to or for the purposes of the scheme")
§ Clause 35, page 30, line 32, leave out ("decision") and insert ("determination")
§ Clause 41, page 34, line 12, leave out ("including") and insert ("in the case of").— (Viscount Astor.)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ ill passed and returned to the Commons.