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Standing Order 156A, line 8, at end insert "or".
Line 10, leave out from "authority" to end of line 12.
Line 14, leave out from "of" to end and add "General Grant, Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant under the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland".
Standing Order 156B, line 1, leave out from beginning to "and" in line 9 and insert "Standing Order 156A (Modification of practice as to charges on public revenue), so far as it relates to Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant, shall extend to any provision authorising expenditure by a local authority, but where a private bill contains any such provision which would or might
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operate to increase the sums payable by way of such grant".
Line 17, leave out from first "of" to end of line 20 and insert "the provisions of the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland, as the case may be which relate to Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant".
Standing Order 191, line 10, leave out from "of" to end and insert "General Grant, Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant under the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland".
§ The Amendments on the Paper to the Private Business Standing Orders are necessary to take account of the provisions of the Local Government Act and the Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Bill which have been passing through the House this Session.
§ Question put and agreed to.