§ Mr. KEATINGasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, expressly makes pensions payable in advance, so that, a person whose 70th birthday anniversary falls on the week-day (Friday) appointed for payments to start from is broadly and reasonably entitled to payment beginning with such birthday; and, seeing that the legal rule which regards a person as having attained a particular age on the day before the corresponding birthday anniversary, which is regarded as part of the following year of age, enables such a person to obtain payment on the Friday birthday in England and Ireland and is itself based on grounds which govern legal computations of time in respect of various other matters also, whether he will ascertain whether or not the same practice holds good for Scotland; and, if not, whether he will give Scotland the benefit of the same reasonable manner of 1500W computation in the Bill amending the Old Age Pensions Act which is about to be brought in?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEAs stated by my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in the Debate on the Second Reading of the Old Age Pensions Bill recently introduced, it is intended to include a provision in the Government Bill to rectify this anomaly.