§ Lords Amendment: In page 22, line 17, leave out from "1827" to "(which" in line 18.
§ Mr. DeedesI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This Amendment and the next one with it correct an error in drafting which would have deprived rating authorities of their existing power of recovering costs incurred by them in obtaining from the justices distress warrants for the rates. A small point, but an essential one.
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Further Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 22, line 21, at end insert:
and in section one of the Distress for Rates Act, 1849 (which relates to warrants for distress), the reference to reasonable charges, in relation to distress for rates, shall be construed as a reference to the fees, charges and expenses chargeable in accordance with any order for the time being in force under this section."—[Mr. Deedes.]