§ Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 42, leave out from "effect" to end of line 43.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This is the first of a series of drafting Amendments which, perhaps, I should explain to the House. The series comprises no fewer than 36 Amendments, from which the House will see that, although we have a large number of Amendments on the Notice Paper, a lot of them go together. These Amendments spring from the extension of certain provisions of the Bill to Scotland and Ireland, and by these Amendments we achieve two improvements.
First, we collect into two new Clauses for insertion after Clauses 48 and 49 the provisions now scattered in other various Clauses in regard to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Secondly, we rearrange the 7th and 8th Schedules, dividing each Schedule into two parts, Part I consisting of Amendments and repeals limited to England and Wales, and Part II consisting of other Amendments or repeals, that is to say, those which extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, and those which, though they do not affect the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland, do not have to be confined to England and Wales because the Amendments and repeals are of provisions which themselves do not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
I am not sure, Mr. Speaker, what is the most convenient way of indicating the 36 Amendments which go with this one so as not to move each one, but there are the 36 Amendments which are all covered by the explanation which I have given.
§ Mr. SpeakerThe right hon. and learned Gentleman merely says "consequential" or "drafting" when we come to them. Perhaps that will enable us to get through them more quickly.
§ Question put and agreed to.