§ Read 3a (according to Order).
LORD SOMERSMy Lords, there are some Amendments to this Bill which should have been moved on the Committee stage, but, unfortunately, we could not 493 definitely certify that two of them were drafting Amendments. With the exception of the Amendment, to Clause 9, page n, line 8, and the Amendment to Clause 18, page 22, line 16, the Amendments are purely drafting Amendments. I should like to say just one word on the Amendment to Clause 9 at page 11, line 8. It is merely an Amendment to meet the circumstance, which was evidently overlooked, that a few public elementary schools are not provided or maintained by the local education authority. It is therefore really almost a drafting Amendment. As to the other Amendment to which I have alluded, Clause 18, page 22, line 16, it was intended to provide by rule that service under 18 should not he pensionable, and this was done in the case of the 1918 Act, but it is not quite clear that under this particular Bill a rule of that kind can be made, and so the Board of Education proposes to insert this provision in the Bill instead of making a rule, as has been done before. I beg to move the Amendments on the Paper.
§ Amendments moved—
§ Clause 2, page 4, line 16, after ("a") insert ("grant aided")
§ Clause 3, page 5, line 41, leave out ("service") and insert ("employment")
§ Clause 9, page 11, line 8, leave out ("or in a") and insert ("maintained by the local education authority or in any")
§ Clause 13, page 16, line 17, leave out ("when") and insert ("where")
§ Clause 14, page 17, line 40, leave out from the beginning to the end of line 2 on page 18.
§
Clause 14, page 19, line 27, after ("section") insert—
("(a) in the case of an organiser over the age of sixty-five years, who at the date of the commencement of this Act is in employment which would be contributory service if he were under that age, the Board may treat him as if he were employed at that date in contributory service; and
(b)")
§ Clause 18, page 22, line 16, after ("is") insert ("over eighteen and")
§ Clause 18, page 22, line 26, after ("service") insert ("and includes any period during which a person though not actually serving in such service as aforesaid was, as the result of his service, prevented or hindered from procuring work as a teacher owing to injury, illness, or any other cause")
494§ Clause 19, page 22, line 29, leave out ("1898") and insert ("1918").—(Lord Somers.)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.