§ Mr. YoungerI beg to move, in page 59, line 17, after "borough," to insert "metropolitan borough."
As I indicated, this Amendment is linked with the last Amendment I moved.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendment made: In page 60, line 2, after "electors," insert "or voting by post or proxy."—[Mr. Younger.]
§ 7.30 p.m.
§ Mr. YoungerI beg to move, in page 60, line 8, to leave out from the beginning to "applicable," and to insert:
for the purposes of either.This Amendment, and the next Amendment in line 10, are only drafting Amendments designed to facilitate arrangements between the Treasury and the Northern Ireland authorities for paying the cost of the Spring register when it is combined with the local register.
§ Sir R RossI wish to be clear about this and I would like an explanation from the Under-Secretary. It is, I understand, a drafting Amendment, but the original draft is the one that seems to me to be appropriate.
§ Mr. YoungerIt is a very small point. It is proposed that the method of meeting the cost of the Spring register, when it coincides with the local register, will be fixed by agreement between the authorities in the two areas. The object of the Amendment is to ensure that there is power for these authorities, if they so agree, to adopt the scale of registration expenses laid down in Northern Ireland. In the present drafting they could not do so, though they could adopt the scale which applies in this country. This Amendment gives them the discretion to use either, according to whichever they may agree on.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendment made: In line 10, leave out "law of Northern Ireland," and insert "other, being expenses."—[Mr. Younger.]
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.