Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 15 July 1925.
Mr Neville Chamberlain
, Birmingham, Ladywood
I beg to move, in page 26, line 41, at the end, to insert the words
(d) for providing for the apportionment as between the appropriate national health insurance fund and the pensions account of sums received on account of contributions; and.
The purpose of this Amendment is to make an apportionment between the different funds in the case where there are stamps of the same denomination used for different purposes.
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