§ Lords Amendments considered.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OR TRADE (Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE, Carnarvon Boroughs)said that most of the Amendments were drafting Amendments, and he proposed that the House should agree with them with one exception.
§ Lords Amendment, in page 20, line 35, after "therein" insert as a new subsection—
§ "(2) It is hereby declared that where the registry of a ship is considered as closed under sub-section (1) of Section 21 of the principal Act as amended by this 1147 section, or under sub-section (10) of Section 44 of that Act, on account of a transfer to persons not qualified to be owners of British ships, any unsatisfied registered mortgage (including mortgages made under a certificate of mortgage) may, if the ship comes within the jurisdiction of any British court which has jurisdiction to enforce the mortgage, or would have had such jurisdiction if the transfer had not been made, be enforced by that court notwithstanding the transfer, without prejudice, in cases where the ship has been sold under a judgment of a court, to the effect of that judgment," the next Amendment, read a second time.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEmoved to amend the new sub-section by substituting for the words "British court" the words "Court in His Majesty's Dominions."
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Lords' Amendment, as amended, agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords' Amendments, read a second time, and agreed to.