§ MR. REMNANT (Finsbury, Holborn)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General whether his attention has been called to the memorandum of June 23rd, 1905, 1339 issued by the Law Society, on the working of The Land Registration Act, 1897, which is declared, after seven years trial, to be a conspicuous failure; and whether, seeing that the Lord Chancellor, when introducing the Bill, stated that the scheme was only to proceed by the most gradual steps, and only by the light of experience, His Majesty's Government will now order an inquiry to be held into the working of the Act.
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYwas understood to say that a longer experience was required of the Act before anything could usefully be done in the way of inquiry or amendment.
§ SIR ALBERT ROLLIT (Islington, S.)asked whether an inquiry had not been promised.
§ MR. REMNANTWill the right hon. and learned Gentleman advise the Government not to incur any further expenditure of money under the Act?
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYreplied that he was no party to any promise, but if a promise had been made in any quarter where there was authority to make one, it would be carried out. In reply to the hon. Member for Finsbury he could only say he could not undertake to advise His Majesty's Government on a question of policy of that sort.