§ Considered in Committee.
§
Amendment proposed—
In page 6, line 13, at the end, to insert the words 'Provided that if in any year owing to any alteration in the rate of duties the rate of any such duty is higher than the rate in force at the commencement of this Act, and the proceeds of that duty in that year as so calculated are less than the average proceeds of the duty for the three years ending the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and seven, the proceeds of the duty instead of being calculated as aforesaid shall be deemed to be the amount of those average proceeds, and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall give their certificates as to the sums ascertained to be the proceeds of those duties accordingly.'"—(Mr. Asquith.)
§ Bill reported.
§ As amended in Committee, and on recommittal, to be considered upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 275.]