HL Deb 12 July 1939 vol 114 cc122-4

Clause 83, page 74, line 35, at end insert— ("(8) For the purposes of this Act the number of persons who work in or about a mine shall be deemed to be a number ascertained as follows, that is to say—

  1. (a) by having regard to all the people employed in or about the mine and ascertaining how many of them are from time to time simultaneously present in or about the mine otherwise than below the surface, and
  2. (b) if the numbers so ascertained fluctuate, by ascertaining the highest number which, throughout any consecutive period of fifteen minutes, is equalled or exceeded.")

The Commons propose to amend the above Amendment as follows: Leave out from ("highest") in paragraph (b) to the end of the paragraph and insert ("figure below which throughout any consecutive period of fifteen minutes the numbers do not fall.")

THE EARL OF MUNSTER

My Lords, the last Amendment which has been made to the Bill in another place merely makes clearer the intentions of your Lordships when we inserted our Amendment during the Committee stage of the Bill. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Earl of Munster.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments has laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:

Senior Public Elementary Schools (Liverpool).

The same was ordered to lie on the Table.