HC Deb 07 July 1938 vol 338 c653

Lords Amendment: In page 20, line 8, after "that" insert: (a) This Sub-section shall not apply to the granting of a right required by reason of the subsistence of a retained copyhold interest; and (b).

5.48 p.m.

The Attorney-General

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This is consequential on the Amendment which was agreed to yesterday with regard to a copyholder's rights. Now that his rights in coal, whatever they may be, will not pass to the Commission these rights must be taken out of Subsection (1), which provides that an application in respect of coal can no longer be made to the Railway and Canal Commission.

Sir S. Cripps

We take the same objection to this as we have to the whole of the copyhold procedure. We do not propose to vote against it nor to delay the House.