HC Deb 13 August 1913 vol 56 cc2568-9

The several words and expressions used in this Act shall unless otherwise provided or unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction have the same respective meanings as in the Licensing (Scotland) Act, 1903:

Provided that in this Act—

"Area" means— (a) in the case of a burgh divided into wards, the population of which burgh within the police boundaries thereof according to the census for the time being last taken is not less than ten thousand, any ward of such burgh, and in the csae of other burghs, the whole burgh; and Elector" means, in the case of—

  1. (a) a burgh, any person registered as entitled to vote at an election of town councillors for that burgh, and When used in relation to any area in a burgh means a person so registered as entitled to vote at an election for that area; and in the case of—
  2. (b) a parish (excluding any burgh or part of a burgh therein), any person registered as entitled to vote at an election of parish councillors for that parish, excluding as aforesaid: Provided that the supplementary register made up in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen under Section twenty-eight of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, shall 2569 continue in operation for the purposes of a poll under this Act in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and provided, further, that for the purposes of a requisition in the year of a triennial election of county councillors before the register of parish council electors is made up "elector'' means any ratepayer within the parish, excluding as aforesaid.

Lords Amendments:—

in paragraph (a), leave out the words "according to the census for the time being last taken," and insert instead thereof the words "as ascertained in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen for the purposes of this Act in manner approved by the Secretary for Scotland."

In paragraph (a), leave out the word "ten"["ten thousand"], and insert instead thereof the word "twenty-five."

In paragraph (a), after the word "burgh"["any ward of such burgh"], insert the words, "unless, where the population of any ward of such burgh as so ascertained is less than four thousand, the town council by resolution passed on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty, determine that such ward shall for the purposes of this Act be combined with a ward contiguous thereto."

In paragraph (b), leave out the word "sixteen" ["in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen"], and insert instead thereof the word "nineteen."

In paragraph (b), leave out the word "seventeen" ["in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen"], and insert instead thereof the word "twenty."

6.0 P.M.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendments."

Mr. MORTON

With regard to the first Amendment—

Mr. SPEAKER

The hon. Member cannot discuss that now. He should have stopped me before.

Mr. MORTON

Shall I be able to deal with any of them?

Mr. SPEAKER

They have all been put. The hon. Member is too late; he should have interposed earlier.

Question put, and agreed to.