There is an amendment to Section 1. It is being taken in Committee, but it is really a verbal amendment. It is in Sub-section 1 to delete the words "and the" in line 18 and the words "Insurance Commissioners, the Scottish Insurance Commissioners, the Welsh Insurance Commissioners" in line 20, and to substitute therefor "the Minister for Health for England, the Scottish Board of Health." I understand that the Ministry of Finance has discovered that the people mentioned in the Bill as drafted do not exist.
THE DAIL IN COMMITTEE. - FINANCE (No. 2) BILL, 1923.
SECTION 1 (SUB-SECTION 1).
An Approved Society within the meaning of Part I. of the National Insurance Act, 1911, having its principal office situate in Great Britain or Northern Ireland and any branch of such a society, shall be entitled to exemption from income tax for the year beginning on the 6th day of April, 1923, in respect of the income derived from any funds or credits of the society under that Part of that Act, or any investment thereof, and the Insurance Commissioners, the Scottish Insurance Commissioners, the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, and the Ministry of Labour in Northern Ireland shall be entitled to a similar exemption in respect of any income derived from any funds held by them, or under their control or management, under or for the purposes of that Act.
Does the Minister for Health in England include the Welsh Commissioners under his supervision?
I think, Sir, the Welsh Commissioners are under the Ministry of Health for England.
Amendment put and agreed to.
Motion made and question put: "That Section 1 as amended stand part of the Bill."
Agreed.
Sections 2 and 3 and the Title put and agreed to.