HL Deb 25 June 1973 vol 343 cc1777-8

[No. 56.]

Clause 19, page 26, line 46, leave out from "scheme" to end of clause and insert: ,or, if that person has ceased to exist, to advise the Secretary of State on whethers it would be appropriate in consequence of the representations to amend the order or scheme before the day when transfers take effect in pursuance of it or to transfer a person on or after that day from the employment to which he is transferred in pursuance of the order or scheme; (c) for the transfer of a person in consequence of such representations:

  1. (i) from the employment of a new health authority to the employment of a different new health authority or, except where the person in question was transferred in pursuance of the order or scheme from the employment of an old health authority, to the employment of an authority established by or under the Local Government Act 1972 or a London authority, or
  2. (ii) from the employment of a body to which the person in question was transferred by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of the preceding section to the employment of a different body which is such a local authority as is mentioned in that paragraph;
and in this subsection "old health authority" and "new health authority" have the same meanings as in the preceding section and "London authority" means the Greater London Council, a London borough council and the Common Council of the City of London.

LORD ABERDARE

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment No. 56. The purpose of this Amendment is to provide a means of handling cases where an officer has made representations against transfer and it has not been possible to consider these and reach a decision in time to amend the transfer order or scheme before the appointed day. The transfer will have taken place and the authority from which the officer has been transferred will, except in the case of a London authority, have ceased to exist. The Amendment therefore provides that further transfers may be made by order after the appointed day in these cases. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Aberdare.)

LORD GARNSWORTHY

My Lords, I should like to welcome this Amendment. I very much appreciate the terms in which the Government have introduced it.

On Question, Motion agreed to.