§ 2.48 p.m.
LORD LLOYDMy Lords, these Regulations are really a logical extension of the Regulations which have just been moved by my noble friend. Their object is to extend to persons on the medical staffs of all local authorities the right hitherto conferred, by Regulation 47 of the principal Regulations, on the medical staffs of local health authorities alone, to have the benefits conferred by those Regulations in place of the benefits provided by the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937. All these Regulations do is to extend to those concerned the option of deciding which scheme they 450 would like to have applied to them. The noble Lord will be glad to hear that these Regulations, too, have been agreed by the local authority associations and the professional associations concerned, and they are an agreed measure. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the National Health Service (Superannuation) (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations, 1952, reported from the Special Orders Committee on Wednesday, the 18th instant, be approved.—(Lord Lloyd.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to