THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations and Modifications of Enactments.) (Hansard, 25 June 1947)

§ The Solicitor-General
I beg to move, in page 80, line 25, at the end, to insert:

"s. 21 … After the Word 'consent' in the first and third places where it occurs, the words 'or authorisation' shall be inserted, and after the word 'to' in the first place where it occurs there shall be inserted the words 'or for'."

This Amendment, which should be read in conjunction with the Amendment, in page 88, line 44, column 2, effects the same purpose. It is to bring into line with the new provisions of Clause 9 of the Bill Section 21 of the 535 1919 Act, which deals with the placing of an electric line above ground, under the provision of the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act, 1899.Clause 9 has given a new power to do that, and this Amendment makes the necessary alteration to Section 21.

§ The Solicitor-General
I beg to move, in page 82, line 5, column 2, at the beginning, to insert: In Subsection (1) for the word 'applications' there shall be substituted the words 'application is,' after the words 'place the line' there shall be inserted the words 'or, as the case may be, may commence proceedings under the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946, as applied by Section nine of the Electricity Act, 1947, to purchase compulsorily a right to place the line' and at the end of the Subsection there shall be inserted the words' or, as the case may be, under the said Section twenty-one and under the said Act of 1946 as so applied.' This, again, is little more than a drafting Amendment. It applies Clause 9 to Section 44 of the 1926 Act. 'That Section enables the Minister to proceed, in the matter of certain inquiries, simultaneously under Sections 21 and 22 of the 1919 Act, which provides for alternative inquiry machinery. This Amendment adds a third alternative where the provisions of Clause 9 are brought into it. Clause 9 is the one which applies the compulsory acquisition procedure and gives certain rights with regard to the laying of electric lines. This is really a matter of drafting.

§ The Lord Advocate
I beg to move, in page 84, line 8, after "standards," to insert: and which shall be such as to secure the provision of separate information as respects the generation of electricity, the distribution of electricity and each of the main other activities of the Board. This is consequential on the Amendment made to Clause 41. It secures that a statement of accounts of the North of Scotland Board shall include separate information concerning the board's activities in the same way as is done in the case of the accounts of the authorities.