HC Deb 15 June 1948 vol 452 cc365-6

Amendments made: In page 71, line 1, leave out from beginning, to "and," in line 7, and insert: In this Act the expression 'clerk of the authority' in relation to a borough means the town clerk, and where the town clerk of a borough is registration officer references to the authority whose clerk he is refer to the borough council.

In line 18, at end, insert: (4) Subject to any express provision therein contained this Act, so far as it has effect for the purposes of parliamentary elections or of elections of London county councillors, shall apply in relation to the City of London as if it were a metropolitan borough and as if the common council were a metropolitan borough council, but with the substitution for references to the town clerk of references to the secondary; and for the purposes of this Subsection the Inner Temple and Middle Temple shall be treated as forming part of the said City."—[Mr. Younger.]