Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords] – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 29 Gorffennaf 1947.
The Chairman:
I now propose to call the privileged Amendment not on the Order Paper but underlined in Clause 107 of the Bill.
Mr Joseph Westwood
, Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs
I beg to move in page 62, line 20, at the end to insert:
The assistance to which this Subsection applies shall be the arrangements made for the care of expectant and nursing mothers and children who are not attending a school under the management of an education authority, and who have not attained, or are deemed under Section thirty-three of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1946, not to have attained the age of five years, or of blind persons, or the feeding, clothing and treatment of pupils attending schools, junior colleges and other educational establishments, or the care and after care under Section twenty-seven of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947, of persons suffering from illness or mental deficiency, or the maintenance and guardianship of mental defectives placed under guardianship.
It is necessary to move formally to insert these words, which are already shown in the Clause underlined, in order to avoid any question of Privilege.
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