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§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move, in page 26, line 20, at end, insert:
Provided that nothing in this Sub-section shall authorise interference with any such right as is mentioned in Section twenty-three of this Act.The purpose of the Amendment is to delimit the ground covered by Clauses 20 and 23. We had some discussion on it in Committee. What was wanted was that the rights of laying and maintaining apparatus and rights of way by statutory undertakers should be covered, and not brought into Clause 20 but into the procedure laid down by Clause 23, and that other easements of statutory undertakers and other people should not be so preserved. I think that, by the Amendment, we have met both points of view which were urged upon us, and have carried out what the Committee desired.Amendment agreed to.