HC Deb 01 April 1963 vol 675 c42
Mr. Corfield

I beg to move, in page 4, line 7, to leave out paragraph (d) and to insert: (d) in relation to a county district to which Part III applies as from the date of the passing of this Act only by virtue of this subsection, that date shall be deemed to be specified in sections 47 (3) and 52 (2) as a further day on which the periods mentioned in those provisions may begin. The purpose of this Amendment is twofold. First, the effect of deleting the existing paragraph (d) is to ensure that the review to be carried out by Hertfordshire and Surrey of their county districts shall not take place before the Boundary Commission has completed its review of the area as a whole.

The insertion of the new paragraph fulfils an undertaking which I gave in Committee to make sure that parts of the originally defined Metropolitan area for the purposes of the Royal Commission, which are now excluded from Greater London, shall not be prejudiced in their ability to put forward delegation schemes under the Local Government Act, 1933.

Amendment agreed to.

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