§ Lords Amendment: In page 8, line 35, leave out "two shillings and sixpence" and insert. "three shillings."
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Sir H. YOUNGI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This is a matter which requires some explanation, as we are increasing by this Amendment the limit of the recoverable rent, in respect of the cottages to which this Clause refers, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. The purpose of the Clause is to enable a landlord in certain circumstances and in respect of purely agricultural cottages, to obtain possession without showing alternative accommodation, where a cottage is needed for an agricultural or estate worker and the House agreed that the Clause should be limited to cottages with a recoverable rent of 2s. 6d. The reason for substituting 3s. as the recoverable rent—which admits a larger number of cottages—is that that is the normal rent for an agricultural cottage, and, in many areas, 3s. is the sum which the Agricultural Wages Board takes as representing the weekly value of an agricultural cottage in calculating a minimum wage. It will, therefore, be more convenient limitation and more in accordance with the classifications already in existence.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Lords Amendment: In page 8, after Clause 5, insert: