HC Deb 30 July 1923 vol 167 c1192

(5) Section eighteen of the Improvement of Land Act, 1864, in so far as it prohibits without an order of the Court of Session the making of any provisional or other order sanctioning the improvement of land where the landowner or the husband of the landowner is an heir of entail in possession or a life renter and is the father of the next heir, or heirs, or of a succeeding life renter or life renters or of the fiar or fiars, and such heir succeeding life renter or fiar, or one or more of such heirs succeeding life 'renters or fiars, is in minority shall cease to have effect.

Lords Amendment:

In Sub-section (5), leave out the words or the husband of the landowner is an heir of entail in possession or a life renter and and insert is an heir of entail in possession or a life renter, and where such landowner or the husband of such landowner. Agreed to.