Title (Hansard, 5 December 1949)

§ Mr. Manningham-Buller (Daventry)

I beg to move, in lieu of the Lords Amendment disagreed to, in line 1, to leave out from "divorce" to "wards" in line 2, and to insert: and other matrimonial proceedings, the admissibility of evidence as to access, the charge and payment of percentage under the Lunacy Act, 1890, and to. The only difference between the Amendment which I am moving and the Lords Amendment is as follows. Instead of the last word "the" I desire the word to be "to." I desire also to omit two further words from the original Title. The original Title of the Bill as it left this House was: to amend the law of divorce, to alter the law with regard to making infants wards of court. As amended in another place it would read: to amend the law relating to divorce and other matrimonial proceedings, the admissibility of evidence as to access, the charge and payment of percentage under the Lunacy Act, 1890, and the making infants wards of court; That phrase is rather clumsy and rather inappropriate to the Title of an important Measure. The effect of the Amendment I have just moved will be to alter the last words to: and to wards of court;