§ RIGHTS OF OCCUPATION UNDER MATRI
MONIAL HOMES ACT 1967 OF SPOUSE
WITH EQUITABLE INTEREST IN HOME, ETC.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move Amendment No. 42, in page 23, line 24, after thereof ' insert:
' not being a spouse in whom is vested (whether solely or as a joint tenant) a legal estate in fee simple or a legal term of years absolute in the dwelling house '.
§ The Temporary Chairman (Mr. George Rogers)With this Amendment we can take also Amendments Nos. 43 and 44.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralThese are linked drafting Amendments designed to ensure that Clause 29 carries out the recommendation in paragraph 59 of the Law Commission's Report more clearly than it does in its current form.
§ Sir D. RentonI rise only to draw attention to the rather strange fact that the draft Bill of the Law Commission does not appear, according to the Solicitor General, to have carried out the intentions of its own report.
§ Amendment agreed to
1970
§
Further Amendments made: No. 43, in page 23, line 24, leave out purposes of ' and insert:
' purpose only of determining whether he or she has rights of occupation under '.
§ No. 44, in page 23, line 26, leave out from ' interest ' to end of line 28.—[The Solicitor-General]
§ Clause 29, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill
§ Clauses 30 and 31 ordered to stand part of the Bill