§ 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.
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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.