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("(c) any of the provisions of the Pensions Act, 1839, or any power of His Majesty or of any Government department to provide, or the validity or the construction of any Royal Warrant, Order in Council, or Order, in force at the commencement of this Act, which provides for the repayment from any pension of the expense of the maintenance of rate-aided persons.
(2) This section shall come into operation on the passing of this Act.")
EARL RUSSELLMy Lords, this Amendment was put in because Clause 18 removes certain possibilities arising from the pauper status of mental patients, but it does not interfere with the provisions of the principal Act regarding the liability of friends, and the new paragraph (c) has been inserted at the request of the Admiralty and the Ministry of Pensions, who pointed out that a similar safeguard is required in regard to the provisions stated in the subsection. I beg to move that we agree.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Earl Russell.)