CLAUSE 33.—(Temporary provisions as to expenses of registration.)

HC Deb 23 January 1945 vol 407 cc680-1

The Lord Advocate

I beg to move, in page 32, line 7, at end, add: (5) In the application of this section to Scotland—

1. (a) for the words 'registration officers' there shall be substituted the words 'councils appointing registration officers';
2. (b) for the reference to section fifteen of the Act of 1918 there shall be substituted a reference to the provision substituted therefor by section forty-three of that Act; and
3. (c) for the reference to subsection (3) of section fourteen of the Act of 1943 there shall be substituted a reference to the subsection substituted therefor by section twenty-three of the said Act."

This is really a drafting Amendment. The existing Clause does not properly fit the existing legislative provisions in Scotland. In particular, money in England is paid to registration officers, whereas in Scotland it is paid to the councils who employ them, and therefore we think it right to clarify the position by moving this Amendment.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.