CLAUSE 6.—(Provisions as to priority in bankruptcy, etc., of Crown debts and certain debts due to Trustee Savings Banks.) (Hansard, 14 March 1932)

§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)
I beg to move, in page 3, line 23, at the beginning, to insert the words: [(1) Notwithstanding any restrictions imposed by the principal Act on the power of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws, that Parliament may, with the consent of the Treasury—

(1) regulate and restrict the priority which is to be given to Crown debts in the distribution of the property of a bankrupt, arranging debtor or person dying insolvent; and

(2) determine the priority, if any, to be given in the distribution of such property as aforesaid to the debts mentioned in section fourteen of the Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1863.]

§ Mr. C. WILLIAMS
What is the meaning of this new Sub-section? It is generally useful to give the Committee a short explanation.

§ Mr. STANLEY
I did not give any explanation, because I thought the hon. Member realised that the necessity for making this Amendment was due entirely to Parliamentary procedure. Owing to the fact that it was thought that this part of Clause 6 raised a question of privilege, 108 it was, as the hon. Member will see, enclosed in brackets and, technically speaking, is not in the Bill until it is moved in Committee.