HC Deb 18 August 1919 vol 119 cc2104-5

No parish situated in Wales or Monmouthshire and which is in an English diocese shall be deprived of the right of self-determination granted to border parishes by Section nine, Subsection (1), of the Welsh Church Act, 1914, by reason of its having been separated or divided oft from a larger parish, situated partly in England and partly in Wales and Monmouth shire, if such separation has taken place subsequently to the year eighteen hundred and fifty.

Lords Amendment:

Leave out the words "No parish situated in Wales or Monmouth shire and which is in an English diocese shall be deprived of the right of self-determination granted to border parishes by Section nine, Sub-section (1)," and insert instead thereof the words Where an ecclesiastical parish which before the year eighteen hundred and fifty was situate partly in Wales or Monmouth shire and partly in England has since that year been divided into two ecclesiastical parishes, one of which is situate wholly in Wales or Monmouthshire, and one wholly in England, and both those parishes are situated in an English diocese, then Subsections (1) and (3) of Section nine.

Mr. SHORTT

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This is merely a drafting Amendment to a Clause agreed to in this House dealing with parishes which are partly in England and partly in Wales. A portion which is entirely in Wales has lost the right of deciding for itself what its future should be, and we desire to restore to it that right.

Question put, and agreed to.

Lords Amendments:

Leave out the words by reason of its having been separated or divided off from a larger parish situated partly in England and partly in Wales and Monmouth shire, if such separation has taken place subsequently to the year eighteen hundred and fifty, and insert instead thereof the words (which relates to border parishes) shall apply to the ecclesiastical parish so situate wholly in Wales or Monmouth shire in like manner as if part thereof were situate in England.

After Clause 8, insert new Clause A: