HC Deb 26 November 1914 vol 68 cc1469-70

  1. (1) The High Court or a judge thereof may, on the application in accordance with rules of Court of any person who appears to the Court to be a creditor of 1470 an enemy or entitled to recover damages against an enemy, or to be interested in any property, real or personal (including any rights, whether legal or equitable, in or arising out of property real or personal) belonging to or held or managed for or on behalf of an enemy or on the application of the Custodian or any Government Department by order vest in the Custodian any such real or personal property as aforesaid if the Court or the judge is satisfied that such vesting is expedient for the purposes of this Act, and may by the order confer ion the Custodian such powers of selling, managing and otherwise dealing with the property as the Court or judge may seem proper.
  2. The Court or judge before making any order under this Section may direct that such notices (if any), whether by way of advertisement or otherwise, shall be given as the Court or judge may think fit.
  3. (3) A vesting order under this Section as respects property of any description shall be of the like purport and effect as a vesting order as respects property of the same description made under the Trustee Act, 1893.

Sir J. SIMON

I beg to move, in Subsection (1), to leave out the words "in accordance with rules of Court."

I propose this Amendment in order to get rid of the reference to rules of Court, which is rather a cumbrous process, and to substitute instead some words which will enable the Lord Chancellor in England or Ireland, or the Court of Session in Scotland to make the rules. I have communicated with the Lord Chancellor, and he thinks that by that means what is necessary will be more satisfactorily done.

Question, "That the words 'in accordance with the rules of Court,' stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.