§ This Act shall not apply to any dwelling-house occupied by the owner thereof, or in which the owner resides, or to any dwelling-house used as an inn or hotel, or to any dwelling-house let along with land for agricultural, pastoral, or horticultural purposes, or to any dwelling-house let in conjunction with a shop, workshop, stable, byre, or the like; nor shall it apply to any dwelling-house let under any contract or lease.
§ Mr. HENRY A. WATT moved to insert after the word "stable" the word "or."
§ In connection with this and a further Amendment, it has been pointed out to me by writers to the Signet in Edinburgh that there is indefiniteness about the words "or the like," which, by my next Amendment, I propose to leave out. I defy the ingenuity of even Members of the Front Bench to tell us what they mean.
§ Question, "That the word 'or' be there inserted," put, and agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: To leave out the words, "or thelike."—[Mr. Watt.]
§ To add at the end of the Clause the words, "current at the date of the passing of this Act."—[Mr. Ure.]