LORDS AMENDMENTS

TO THE

AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.

[NOTE. The page and line refer to Bill (188) as first printed by the Lords.]

Page 1.

Line 20, after ("county") insert ("should resolu❝tions in favour of such combination be passed by the representative members of the com"mittees for the several counties")

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Line 21, leave out from ("counties") to end of clause 1 and insert:

("(4) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section the Minister shall, on the first establishment of agricultural wages committees, establish one committee for each combination of counties specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.

(5) Where one committee has been established for a combination of counties, the Minister at any time thereafter may, and on the representation of the committee by resolution of the representative members shall, dissolve the committee, and until such committee is dissolved the counties included in the combination shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be one county.")

Page 3.

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Line 7, at end insert (" If an application for a permit is not disposed of within twenty-one days after "the day on which it is received, then the employer of the worker to whom the applica"tion relates shall not be liable to any legal proceedings under this Act for paying wages to

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"the worker at a rate less than the minimum "rate during the interval between the expiration "of the said period and the date on which the application is ultimately disposed of ")

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Page 5.

Leave out clause 6.

Page 8.

Line 40, leave out subsection (2) and insert the following new subsection:

("(2) Any regulation made under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith; and if an address to His Majesty is agreed to by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-eight days on which that House has sat after any such regulation is laid before it praying that the regulation may be annulled, it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or the making of a new regulation.")

Page 9.

Line 7, after ("and") insert ("(after consultation "with the agricultural wages committee concerned)")

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Line 9, after ("number") insert ("and after such "consultation as aforesaid ")

Line 13, after ("power") insert (" on giving reason"able and proper notice")

Page 11.

Line 23, after ("worker ") insert ("who has attained "the age of twenty-one years and ")

Line 23, leave out from ("incapable") to ("of ") in line 25.

Page 12.

Line 9, at end insert the following new subsection: ("(2) For the purposes of this Act the Scilly Isle shall be deemed to be a county, and the area comprisin

the Ulverston Rural District and the Grange, Ulverston and Dalton-in-Furness Urban Districts shall, if the Minister so directs, be deemed to be a detached part of the county of Lancaster.")

First Schedule.

Page 13.

Line 11, after ("two") insert (" impartial")

Pages 15 and 16.

Leave out the Second Schedule and insert the following schedule:

("COUNTIES AND COMBINED COUNTIES FOR WHICH THE FIRST AGRICULTURAL WAGES COMMITTEES ARE TO BE ESTABLISHED.

COMBINATIONS OF COUNTIES FOR WHICH COMMITTEES ARE TO BE ESTABLISHED ON THE FIRST ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMITTEES.

Counties of Bedford and Huntingdon.

Counties of Cambridge and Isle of Ely.

Counties of Cornwall and Scilly Isles.

Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.

Counties of Leicester and Rutland.

Counties of Lincoln, Parts of Kesteven and Lincoln, Parts of
Lindsey.

Counties of Northampton and Soke of Peterborough.

Counties of Southampton and Isle of Wight.

Counties of East Suffolk and West Suffolk.

Counties of East Sussex and West Sussex.
Counties of Anglesey and Carnarvon.
Counties of Denbigh and Flint.

Counties of Merioneth and Montgomery.

Counties of Pembroke and Cardigan.

Counties of Radnor and Brecknock.")

MEMORANDUM.

This Bill is designed to facilitate the acquisition of land for permanent allotments by three methods, viz. :

(1) Authorising the Public Works Loans Commis-
sioners to advance money for the purchase of
land to properly constituted allotment societies
on the lines of section 1 of the Agriculture
Credits Act, 1923.

(2) Requiring provision for permanent allotments in
town planning schemes.
(3) Authorising grants by the Ministry of Agriculture
to local authorities for the purchase of land, or,
in lieu of a grant, to permit the Ministry to
authorise a local authority to contribute out of
its district rate towards the cost of the provision
of allotments, such contribution being limited
to a penny rate.

The Bill also seeks to ensure that an allotment holder shall receive reasonable notice to quit; provides that land held by local authorities and used as allotments shall not be diverted from that use without the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Health; and would prevent the eviction of allotment holders when land is not immediately required for building.