Part of Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland) Bill. – in the House of Commons am ar 26 Ebrill 1929.
Then may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in the event of members of a county council being deputed to undertake work on a district council, they will be entitled to compensation. I am not putting the major point of whether members of district councils as such should be compensated, but whether members, when delegated by the county council, will be regarded as members of a committee of the county council or as members of the county council. [Interruption.] If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept that view, I put the point to him again in this way. If a member of the county council is entitled to compensation, clearly he is entitled to such compensation no matter what functions he is undertaking on behalf of the county council, and therefore when he is present at a meeting of the district council he is still a member of the county council and is entitled to be compensated. Does not the Lord Advocate accept that view?