HC Deb 14 November 1933 vol 281 cc812-3

6.44 p.m.

Mr. SHAKESPEARE

I beg to move, in page 159, line 3, after the word "vestry," to insert the words: or of any meeting of inhabitants in the nature of a vestry. After the wonderful progress that we have made, the Committee will expect me to explain this Amendment. It is a simple point. Clause 268 is concerned with the transference of civil functions of the vestry to the borough or urban district council, but there is one power relating to the provision of burial grounds for part of a parish which rests in the meeting of the inhabitants of that part of the parish affected. It would be idle not to transfer the whole of the civil functions of a vestry, and this Amendment regularises that position.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In page 159, line 4, after the word "parish," insert the words "or place."

In line 12, after the word "district," insert the words or in a rural parish having a parish council.

In line 19, after the word "district," insert the words, "or to the parish council."—[Mr. Shakespeare.]

Clauses 269 to 303 ordered to stand part of the Bill.