§ "(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided this Part of this Act shall come into operation on the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and as respects 1260 the year beginning on the said day there shall be paid to every authority levying rates a sum equal to the amount estimated and certified as being the difference between the sum receivable by the authority as the proceeds of rates in respect of the said year and the sum which would have been so receivable had the rateable value of the area of the authority been calculated as if this Act had not passed: Provided that if the Secretary of State is satisfied that the amount in the pound of the rates levied by any such authority in respect of the said year has been abnormally increased by reason of charges not ordinarily falling to be borne by rates having been imposed thereon, the sum payable to the authority under this section shall be such as may be estimated and certified as the sum which would have been so payable if the said amount in the pound had not been so increased as aforesaid.
§ (2) The sums required for the payments directed by subsection (1) of this section to be made to authorities levying rates shall be paid, to the extent of four hundred and seventy thousand pounds, out of the Rating Relief Suspense Account, and, to the extent of the balance, out of moneys provided by Parliament."
§ Mr. SPEAKERThis Amendment raises a question of Privilege.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment," put, and agreed to.—[Sir J. Gilmour.]
§ Mr. SPEAKERI will cause a special entry to be made in the Journals of the House with reference to this Amendment.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments, to page 73, line 14, agreed to.