HC Deb 30 July 1946 vol 426 cc910-1

Lords Amendment: In page 16, line 40, leave out from beginning to "no", in line 1 on page 17, and insert: (5) An order under this Section which provides for the transfer of the undertaking or any part of the undertaking of a development corporation to any local authority or statutory undertakers may contain such incidental consequential and supplementary provisions as the Minister thinks necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, may extend or modify the powers and duties of that authority or those undertakers so far as appears to the Minister to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the transfer:

Provided that—

  1. (a) in relation to an order which provides for extending or modifying the powers and duties of any statutory undertakers, Subsection (2) of this Section shall have effect as if for the first reference therein to the Minister there were substituted a reference to the Minister and the appropriate Minister; and
  2. (b)."

Mr. Silkin

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

This Amendment is designed to meet another point raised on the Report stage by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Cirencester (Mr. W. S. Morrison). It makes it plain that where the Minister is extending the powers of local authorities, such extension must be limited to providing powers necessary to carry on the undertaking which is being transferred.

Lords Amendment: In page 17, line 3, at end, insert: (6) An order under Subsection (1) of this Section may provide for the appointment and functions of a liquidator of the development corporation, and may authorise the disposal, in such manner as may be determined by or under the order, of any assets of the corporation which are not transferred to a local authority or statutory undertakers under the foregoing provisions of this Section.

Mr. Silkin

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

The purpose of this Amendment is to provide for the appointment of a liquidator in terms instead of inferentially, as was originally the case.