HC Deb 09 July 1959 vol 608 cc1663-5

Lords Amendments agreed to: In page 13, line 13. after "of" insert "that Part of".

In line 24, leave out from "prospective" to end of line 26 and insert: is or would be development arising from the circumstances of the case".

In page 14 line 38, leave out "subsection" and insert "paragraph".

In line 42, leave out from "prospective" to end of line 44 and insert: is or would be development arising from the circumstances of that case

Lords Amendment: In page 15, line 15, at end insert: (6A) Any reference in this section to development (whether actual or prospective) which is or would be development arising from the circumstances of a case mentioned in the first column of the table set out in subsection (2) of this section—

  1. (a) in relation to any acquisition for purposes involving development of any of the land authorised to be acquired, shall (subject to the next following paragraph) be construed as a reference to development (whether actual or prospective) which would not have been likely to be carried out if the acquiring authority had not acquired, and did not propose to acquire, any of that land, and
  2. (b) in relation to any acquisition falling within one or more of paragraphs 2 to 5 in the said first column, shall be construed as including (or, if the acquisition is not for purposes involving development of any of the land authorised to be acquired, shall be construed as) a reference to any development (whether actual or prospective) which would not have been likely to be carried out if the area or areas referred to in that paragraph or those paragraphs had not been defined for designated as therein mentioned or (in a case falling within paragraph 5) if the scheme therein mentioned had not come into operation."

Mr. H. Brooke

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

The Amendment is linked with a previous Amendment to which the House has already agreed.

Mr. Willis

Surely we can have a better explanation than that it is "linked with another Amendment." I find it extremely difficult to conceive that a Lords Amendment of about 20 lines is a drafting Amendment. Could not the right hon. Gentleman or his Parliamentary Secretary tell us what it means?

Mr. Brooke

If I may speak again with the leave of the House I would mention a slight embarrassment, because the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) suggested that a number of these Amendments might be taken together.

Mr. Mitchison

That suggestion was in reference to previous Amendments to this Clause.

Mr. Brooke

The Lords Amendment now under discussion is connected with the Amendment to page 13, line 24, which, with the Amendment in page 14, line 42, remedies a defect in the drafting of the Bill. I will go into further detail if the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) would like me to do so. I assure him—I think the hon. and learned Member for Kettering will confirm this—that no point of substance arises here.

Question put and agreed to.