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Clause 75, page 65, line 1, leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert:
("(2) The catchment board shall be a body corporate under the name of the Lee Conservancy catchment board.
§ (3) An additional member of the catchment board appointed by a county council in pursuance of this section need not be a member of that council.
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(4) Section four (Appointed members) and Section fifteen (Persons disqualified from being conservators) of the Lee Conservancy Act, 1900, and Section eleven (Casual vacancies amongst appointed members) of the Lee Conservancy Act, 1921, shall apply to the additional members of the catchment board to be appointed in pursuance of this section:
Provided that the first members so appointed shall be appointed as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, and shall, subject as in the said Section four provided, continue to hold office until the first Friday in April in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-four.
§ (5) The moneys received by the catchment board under this Act shall be charged with the payment of a proportionate part of the necessary and proper establishment expenses of the conservancy board and of a proportionate part of the cost (including any interest and payments to sinking funds or other sums required to be provided in respect to the repayment of borrowed moneys) of any works carried out by that board and the execution and performance of any of their powers and duties which are 1186 applicable to or enure for the benefit of not only the purposes of the Lee Conservancy Acts, 1870 to 1921, but also the purposes of this Act.
§ (6) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to compensation to existing officers the conservancy board shall be deemed to have been a drainage board immediately before the commencement of this Act.
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(7) Every officer or servant of the conservancy board or of the catchment board not entitled to compensation under this Act, and not otherwise legally entitled to any pension or superannuation allowance, who becomes incapable of discharging the duties of his office with efficiency by reason of permanent infirmity of mind or body, or who has attained the age of sixty years, or who having been in the service of the conservancy board for a period of not less than five years prior to the commencement of this Act, is dismissed on any ground other than misconduct, shall upon his resigning or otherwise ceasing to hold office, he entitled to a superannuation allowance upon the terms and conditions, and according to the scale from time to time applicable to persons in the permanent Civil Service of the State:
Provided that this provision shall not apply to any officer or servant who having regard to the practice of the Conservators with regard to pensioning their officers and servants had no reasonable expectation of receiving a pension or superannuation allowance on retirement and any question as to whether an officer or servant had such reasonable expectation shall be determined by the Minister").
§ Clause 76, page 65, line 18, after ("channel") insert ("or sea front")
§ EARL DE LA WARRMy Lords, I move that we agree with the Commons in these Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Earl De La Warr.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.