§ 2.50 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 Craigton.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly.
§ [The LORD MERTHYR in the Chair.]
§ Clauses 1 to 5 agreed to.
§ Clause 6 [Retiring age]:
§ THE MINISTER OF STATE, SCOTTISH OFFICE (LORD CRAIGTON)This is a drafting Amendment which achieves the original intention of Section 6 (2). The intention was that the retiring age of 72 should apply only to part-time sheriffs who are first appointed as such after the date of enactment. But every sheriff is subject to a separate appointment, and so, unless the word "appointed" is altered, the effect of the Bill would be that if one of the present part-time sheriffs moved to another part-time sheriffdom he would in fact be appointed to it after the passing of the Act and would have to retire at 72, which was not the intention. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Page 3, line 35, leave out ("appointed") and insert ("first appointed to the office of sheriff"). —(Lord Craigton.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 6, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining clauses and Schedules agreed to.
§ House resumed.