STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) (SUPERANNUATION) BILL.— Read a second time, and committed to a Standing Committee on the 8th May, and allocated by Mr. Speaker to the Com. mittee on the 9th May. The Committee was constituted as follows:- Sir GEORGE MCCRAE, appointed Chairman 13th May. Macdonald, Mr. Robert Macpherson, Mr. Millar, Mr. Duncan Mitchell, Mr. Macgregor Hunter-Weston, Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Livingstone, Mr. MacKenzie Macdonald, Sir Murdoch Sutherland, Sir William Thomson, Mr. Frederick *Thomson, Sir William Mitchell Watson, Mr. William Weir, Mr. Welsh, Mr. Westwood, Mr. Wheatley, Mr. Wood, Major Mackenzie Wright, Mr. Young, Mr. Andrew * Added in respect of the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Bill, REPORT. THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS, to whom the EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) (SUPERANNUATION) BILL was referred ;-Have gone through the Bill and made an Amendment thereunto. 22nd May, 1924. STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS, Thursday, 22nd May, 1924. MEMBERS PRESENT: Sir GEORGE MCCRAE in the Chair. Mr. William Adamson Mr. Thomas Henderson Mr. Hogge Hunter-Weston Mr. Thomas Johnston Mr. Kennedy Mr. William Martin Mr. Duncan Millar Mr. Robert Murray Mr. Scrymgeour Major Sir Archibald Sinclair Mr. James Stewart Mr. Frederick Thomson Mr. Wright Mr. Andrew Young EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) (SUPERANNUATION) BILL. Clause 1. Amendment proposed, in page 1, line 13, to leave out the words "twenty-six," in order to insert the words "twenty-five "—(Mr. Cowan),—instead thereof.—Question proposed, "That the words 'twenty-six' stand part of the Clause." Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment made, in page 1, line 12, by leaving out all the words from the word "words" to the word "or," in line 14, and inserting the words "the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-five "-(Mr. Cowan),— instead thereof. Clause, as amended, agreed to. Clause 2. Resolution of the House (20th May) read as follows:Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) [Payments]: That it is expedient, in pursuance of any Act of the present Session, to amend The Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act, 1922, to authorise the payment, into the Education (Scotland) Fund, out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of such sums as may become payable thereinto in respect of the amount collected and recovered in the years commencing the 1st day of April, 1924, and the 1st day of April, 1925, by the Scottish Education Department under section one of The Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act, 1922, as amended by the said Act of the present Session.'" Clause agreed to. Clauses 3 and 4, agreed to. Ordered: To Report the Bill, as amended, to the House. Printed under the authority of HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES (BOARD OF TRADE) TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, AND APPENDICES. 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