HC Deb 11 July 1938 vol 338 cc887-8

Clacton Urban District Council Bill,

Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.

Motion made, and Question, "That the Lords Amendments be now considered," put, and agreed to.

Lords Amendments considered accordingly.

The Chairman of Ways and Means (Sir Dennis Herbert)

The Lords Amendments to this Bill consist of a number of protective provisions in respect of public boards and railway companies, and the deletion of a Clause prohibiting the inflation of carcases, and a restriction on the administration of treatment in connection with electricity and radiant heat baths. The others are all purely drafting Amendments.

Lords Amendments agreed to.

Derwent Valley Water Board Bill,

Order for Consideration of Lords Amendment read.

Motion made, and Question, "That the Lords Amendment be now considered," put, and agreed to.

Lords Amendment considered accordingly.

The Chairman of Ways and Means

The Lords Amendment is a new Clause for the protection of the Postmaster-General.

Lords Amendment agreed to.

Surrey County Council Bill [Lords],

Read the Third time, and passed, without Amendment.

Tatton Estate Bill [Lords],

Read a Second time, and committed.

Bristol Corporation Bill [Lords],

Ordered, That the Report of the Committee on Unopposed Bills on the Bristol Corporation Bill [Lords] be now considered.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]

Report of the Committee considered accordingly.

Resolved, That this House doth agree with the Committee in their recommendation that a period of 80 years for the repayment of money to be borrowed by the promoters for the construction of certain works and the acquisition of certain lands for the purposes of their dock undertaking under powers sought by the Bill be allowed.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means].

Land Drainage Provisional Order (Louth Drainage District) Bill,

Read the Third time, and passed.