HC Deb 30 March 1955 vol 539 cc457-9
Mr. Mitchison

I beg to move, in page 6, line 44, after " and " to insert " if necessary to."

Now that we have voted on the sacred right of the landlord to be unreasonable, we must keep him from using improvement works as a reason for getting occupation of a house, and see that he only occupies it when he finds it necessary to

do so in order to carry out the works. I do not think that there can be any dispute about the Amendment. Perhaps it would be convenient if I mentioned the next one, in page 7, line 12, at the same time. There is only one point puzzling my hon. Friends and myself about the second Amendment. It is that it ends mysteriously with the letter "(a)." We have lost the " b"—we wonder whether it is in the right hon. Gentleman's bonnet.

Mr. Sandys

I will look for the "b."

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: In page 7, line 12, at beginning, insert: Where the owner of a house is permitted to occupy it in pursuance of subsection (1) of /his section—

(a)."—[Mr. Mitchison.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.