§ Read 3a (according to Order).
§ LORD MUIR MACKENZIEMy Lords. There are several Amendments down in the name of the Marquess of Londonderry, and I agreed with him that if he were not present I would move them for him. The reason for moving the Amendments to such a Bill as a Consolidation Bill, which is usually taken without further Amendment in the House, is that subsequently to dealing with the Bill in the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills an Act was passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland which, had it been in operation at the time when the Committee was considering this Bill, would have been considered by them, and there cannot be any doubt that we should have made these very Amendments. I think it is desirable that the Amendments should be made to this Bill for otherwise it might be necessary to pass a separate Bill just after the Acts have been consolidated. I hope, therefore, that the House will accept the Amendments which stand in the name of the noble Marquess, Lord Londonderry, and I will move them en bloc.
§ Amendments moved—
§ Clause 117, page 119, leave out line6 32 to 40 inclusive.
§ Clause 120, page 122, leave out lines 16 to 21 inclusive.
§ Clause 123, page 126, line 23, leave out from ("Committees") to the end of line 24, and insert ("the provisions with respect to payments out of moneys provided by Parliament towards certain expenses of an insurance committee shall not apply").
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Clause 124, page 127, line 8, at end insert the following new subsection:
("(3) Nothing in the provisions of Part VI of this Act with respect to offences and legal proceedings shall be construed as preventing the Ministry from recovering by means of civil proceedings any contributions
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which an employer has Jailed or neglected to pay in respect of a person, and all such contributions may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered by the Ministry summarily as a civil debt.")
§ Seventh Schedule, page 150, line 29, at end insert:
| ("14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 16 (Northern Ireland). | The National Health Insurance Act (Northern Ireland), 1924. | Sections three and four.") |
| —(Lord Muir Mackenzie.) |
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ LORD MUIR MACKENZIEThere is one Amendment which, I think, comes within the usual rule of Privilege, and therefore I beg to move that the Privilege Amendment be agreed to.
§ Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Privilege Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD MUIR MACKENZIEMy Lords, there ought to have been upon the Paper some Amendments of a purely drafting and correcting kind which I understood would have been circulated with the Orders of the Day to-day. These Amendments are not on the Paper, and I have no desire that the House should proceed with the matter, but I am put in the awkward position of having to move that the proceedings on this Bill be adjourned, so that I may to-morrow, or at some subsequent date, move the Amendments.
§ Moved, That the proceedings on this Bill be now adjourned.—(Lord Muir Mackenzie.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and further proceedings on the Bill adjourned accordingly.