§ Bill, as amended, considered.
§ Clause 4 (Terms of entry and removals from houses).
§ MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSON (Bute)Mr. Speaker, I beg to move to add, at end of the clause—
Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, in all cases in which warning is required forty days before a Whit Sunday or Martinmas term of removal, such warning shall be given forty days before the 15th May and 11th November respectively.It seems to me that this Amendment is required, in order to make it quite certain that the tenants under such leases as are regulated by this Bill should have the full advantage of the 40 days' warning. The Amendment is entirely in the interest of the tenant, and merely has the effect of declaring the law, so there shall be no undue abridgment of the period of warning required.
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Amendment proposed,
In page 2, at end of Clause 4, add—"Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, in all cases in which warning is required forty days before a Whit Sunday or Martinmas term of removal, such warning shall be given forty days before the 15th May and 11th November respectively."—(Mr. J. P. B. Robertson.)
§ Question proposed, "That those words be there added."
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR) (, &c.) ClackmannanI think the Amendment ought to be accepted, because it removes a doubt which, might possibly otherwise arise.
§ Question put, and agreed to; words added.
§ Bill to be read the third time upon Monday next.