§ 7.7 p.m.
§ Amendments reported (according to Order).
§ Clause 6:
§ Compensation of officers prejudicially affected.
§ (2) Any person who, immediately before the date on which an amalgamation scheme came into force, was an officer employed by a constituent authority or by a joint police committee and who, at any time within five years after the said date, relinquishes office by reason of his having been required to perform duties which are: not analogous or which are an unreasonable addition to those which he was required to perform immediately before that date shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed, unless the contrary is shown, to have suffered direct pecuniary loss by reason of the determination of his appointment in consequence of the scheme.
§ LORD WALKDEN moved, in subsection (2), after "date," where that word occurs for the second time, to insert 332
- "(a) has his services dispensed with or his emoluments reduced, otherwise than on the ground of misconduct; or
- (b).''
§ The noble Lord said: My Lords, this Amendment is proposed in order to bring the measure into harmony with the Scottish local government compensation provisions in respect of servants who become redundant, or whose emoluments are adversely affected. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Page 5, line 39, after ("date") insert the said words.—(Lord Walkden.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD WALKDEN moved, in subsection (2), after "appointment," to insert "or the diminution of his emoluments." The noble Lord said: My Lords, this is a consequential Amendment. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Page 5, line 45, after ("appointment") insert ("or the diminution of his emoluments ").—(Lord Walkden.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ House adjourned at eight minutes past seven o'clock.