HC Deb 02 December 1919 vol 122 c357

For the proviso to Sub-section (1) of Section sixteen of the Act of 1911 (which relates to amendment of law as to enlargement of holdings) there shall be substituted the following proviso: Provided that all applications for enlargement under Section eleven of the Act of 1886 shall be made to the Board, and the provisions of the Section of this Act relating to the constitution of new holdings shall, with the necessary modifications, apply as fully for the purpose of applications for enlargement as for the purpose of the constitution of new holdings, and accordingly the Board shall be substituted for the Land Court in Sections twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of 1886 (except the last paragraph of the said Section twenty-one), and the said Section twenty-one shall be further amended by the omission there-from of the words or otherwise interested in' and of the words including heritable creditors holding securities over the same '.

Major M. WOOD

I beg to move, after the word "twelve," to insert the words "except the last paragraph of the said Section twelve."

Objection is often urged against legislation by reference, but this is legislation by double reference, because mention is made of the Act of 1911 and of the Act of 1886.

Mr. MUNRO

I propose to accept this and the following Amendment, subject to the possible redrafting of the terminology in another place.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: Leave out the word "paragraph" ["last paragraph"], and insert instead thereof the words "two paragraphs."—[Major M. Wood.]