§ Mr. BUTCHERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in cases where a master builder or other employer in a trade mentioned in the Sixth Schedule to the National Insurance Act employs a son of the age of sixteen and upwards in his trade wholly or mainly by way of manual labour and pays such son wages, such son must become insured against unemployment under Part II. of the Act and he and his father must pay the contributions mentioned in the Eighth Schedule to the Act; and whether the Board of Trade have yet made regulations for the payment and collection of such contributions, and, if so, how and to whom such contributions are to be paid?
Mr. ROBERTSONMy right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question. A son employed by his father in the circumstances mentioned in the question would appear to be a "workman" as defined by Section 107 (1) of the Act, in respect of whom contributions to the Unemployment Fund are payable at the rates set out in the Eighth Schedule and in accordance with the Regulations of the Board of Trade. These Regulations were laid on the Table of the House on May 6th last.