HC Deb 14 November 1918 vol 110 cc3064-5

Notwithstanding anything in Section three of the Administrative Expenses Act, any local committee established under the principal Act for a borough or urban district shall, if the Minister at any time so directs, exercise the functions of a local committee set forth in paragraph (f) of Section four of the principal Act, but unless the minister so directs, those functions shall continue to be exercised as espects the borough or urban district by the local committee for the county in which the borough or urban district is situate, except so far as those functions may be delegated by the local committee of the county to the local Committee of the borough or urban district.

Amendments made: Leave out the words Notwithstanding anything in Section three of the Administrative Expenses Act.

Leave out the words "under the principal Act," and insert instead thereof the words by virtue of the provisions of Section three of the Administrative Expenses Act.

Leave out the word "Minister," and insert instead thereof the words after consultation with the local committee for the county."—[Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clauses 11 (Inclusion of Airmen on Committees,) and 12 (Power to take Possession of Land) ordered to stand part of the Bill.