§ 2.54 p.m.
§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee read.
§ Moved, that the House do now resolve itself into Committee.—(Lord Nathan.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly:
§ [The Viscount MERSEY in the Chair.]
§ Clause 1 agreed to.
§ Clause 2:
§ Special provisions as to members of home police forces.
§ (3) Where a person to whom Section one of the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act, 1939, applies, being a person who ceased to, 263 serve as a constable in order to serve in His Majesty's forces, upon ceasing to serve in those forces engages, with the consent of the appropriate authority for his home police force, for a period of overseas service, he shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Act to have resumed service as a constable, and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to him as if he had engaged far a period of overseas service from his home police force.
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (LORD NATHAN) moved, at the beginning of subsection (3), after "Where," to insert, ",whether before or after the commencement of this Act". The noble Lord said: I beg to move the Amendment appearing in my name on the Paper. The object of it is merely to fill in a gap in the Bill. Under the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act a police officer from the home police joining the overseas police force is protected so far as his pension rights are concerned. It would be otherwise with those who joined prior to the passing of this Act, and this Bill, this Amendment and the Amendment which follows are designed to fill in that gap and to protect the pension rights of those who have already joined the overseas police force.
§ Amendment moved— Page 3, line 9, after ("Where") insert (",whether before or after the commencement of this Act,").—(Lord Nathan.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD NATHANThe other Amendment is consequential.
§ Amendment moved—
§ Page 3, line 12, leave out ("engages") and insert ("has engaged").—(Lord Nathan.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 2, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining clause agreed to.