§ 57. Mr. Ernest Daviesasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation why the Transport Undertakings (Compensation to Employees) Regulations, 1959, were only laid before the House on 2nd July although they relate to persons affected from 1948 to 1958.
§ Mr. NugentThe Regulations were not previously laid before the House because the British Transport Commission had retained in employment all the persons concerned at rates of pay and under conditions of service not less favourable than those which they had previously enjoyed. Two employees of one of the undertakings concerned now consider that they might have cause for claiming compensation and it is therefore necessary for us to make the Regulations. There is provision in them for awards of compensation to be retrospective.