HL Deb 23 July 1974 vol 353 cc1664-6

House again in Committee.

[The EARL OF LISTOWEL in the Chair.]

LORD HANKEY had given notice of his intention to move Amendment No. 41: Page 36, line 26, at end insert: Procedural Agreements 20A. No state funds shall be paid to any worker engaged in a strike or other action in furtherance or contemplation of a trade dispute, whether by way of tax refunds or social security benefits to himself or his family otherwise due by reason of the strike or other action referred to, unless he shall have and produce on demand to the competent authority concerned a certificate from an industrial tribunal certifying that the trade dispute in question is a constitutional one and that all relevant procedural agreements valid in that industry or undertaking have been complied with. The Inland Revenue and social security authorities will be notified of this requirement.

The noble Lord said: I recommend this interesting Amendment to your Lordships kind study but I do not move it.

Schedule 1 agreed to.

Schedule 2 agreed to.

Schedule 3 [Miscellaneous amendments]:

LORD SHEPHERD moved Amendment No. 42: Page 55, line 39, leave out ("and") and insert ("or")

The noble Lord said: May I speak to Amendments Nos. 42 and 43? These are drafting Amendments. The first Amendment is necessary because the words substituted by the 1971 Act in Section 16(4) of the Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 were" organisation of workers or organisation of employers."The second Amendment improves the grammar of paragraph (6)(ii) of subsection (3). I beg to move.

LORD SHEPHERD

I beg to move Amendment No. 43:

Amendment moved— Page 56, line 16, leave out ("in its application ").—(Lord Shepherd.)

LORD SHEPHERD moved Amendment No. 44:

Page 59, line 26, at end insert: ("The Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 (c. 62) ( ) Section 13 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 (which among other things, makes provision for appeals from and the statement of cases by industrial tribunals to the High Court or Court of Session) shall, in its application to industrital tribunals, be taken as referring to those tribunals when exercising any jurisdiction whatsoever notwithstanding the effect of any order which was made under section 114 of the 1971 Act (appeals from Indus- trial tribunals to the National Industrial Relations Court).").

The noble Lord said: I beg to move Amendment No. 44. It is to ensure that there can be no doubt that by the abolition of the National Industrial Relations Court in the enactment of the Bill, appeals from industrial tribunals will go to the High Court. I beg to move.

Schedule 3, as amended, agreed to.

Remaining Schedules agreed to.

House resumed: Bill reported with the Amendments.