HC Deb 12 December 1939 vol 355 c1078

4.43 p.m.

Mr. E. Brown

I beg to move, in line 3, to leave out from "expire," to the end of line 5, and to insert:

  1. "(a) in the case of all those Acts except the Special Areas (Amendment) Act, 1937, on the thirty-first day of December nineteen hundred and thirty-nine;
  2. (b) in the case of the Special Areas (Amendment) Act, 1937, on the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and forty."
This Amendment is consequential.

Mr. Batey

Does that mean that the Minister is simply putting the Special Areas Act into the Expiring Laws Continuance Act with the object of it lasting until next March?

Mr. Brown

No, Sir. It means extending it from next March until December.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill reported, with Amendments; as amended, considered; read the Third time, and passed.