HC Deb 13 March 1946 vol 420 cc1220-1
Mr. Oliverm

I beg to move, in page 24, line 15, at the end, to insert: 4. Where, immediately before the date of transfer, the watch committee of a borough, which ceases to be a separate police area by virtue of Section one of this Act were exercising functions under Section five of the Police, Factories, & (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1916, or under the House to House Collections Act, 1939, then unless and until the Secretary of State otherwise directs that committee shall continue to exercise those functions in consultation with the police authority for the county or the combined area, as the case may be. This Amendment is brought forward by reason of an undertaking given by the Home Secretary in Committee, whereby the watch committees of non-county boroughs merged under Clause I should continue to exercise the powers which they exercised under the Statutes of 1916 and 1939 with respect to house collections and street collections.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made:

In page 24, line 16, leave out sub-paragraph (1).

In line 23, leave out "foregoing provisions of this," and insert "provisions of the last foregoing." — [Mr. Oliver.]