§ Mr. HUME-WILLIAMSasked whether a man who works at a fat-stock market regularly for four or five different people on a Monday has to be insured, and, if so, by which employer; whether the employer who has to pay can recover any and what proportion from those who are employing the man at the same time; and, in the event of the same man being similarly employed on Wednesdays in a different market by other people, do the latter employers pay any and what contribution?
§ Mr. MASTERMANIn such a case the first employer in each week will be legally responsible for the weekly insurance contributions, unless the various regular employers enter into the arrangement described in my reply to the hon. Member for Whitby on the 23rd of July for paying the contributions in rotation, and as I stated in that reply it is always open to the various employers quite apart from any regulations to enter into a private arrangement for sharing the employer's contributions. Such a voluntary arrangement does not of course affect the legal liability.