HL Deb 23 February 1944 vol 130 c956

Amendments reported (according to Order).

Clause 12 [Appropriation of vacancies in certain employments to registered persons only]:

THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA AND BURMA (THE EARL OF MUNSTER)

My Lords, there is one small Amendment to be made to this clause. It is a drafting Amendment consequential upon the Amendments which your Lordships accepted on the Committee stage of this Bill yesterday. I beg to move.

Amendment moved— Page 10, line 27, leave out ("reinstatement") and insert ("taking a person into employment in pursuance of a statutory or contractual obligation.")—(The Earl of Munster.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Then, Standing Order No. XXXIX having been suspended, Bill read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.