HC Deb 25 July 1963 vol 681 cc1872-3

Lords Amendment: In page 74, line 44, leave out "under" and insert "by virtue of".

Mr. Corfield

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

This is a purely drafting Amendment.

Mr. Christopher Mayhew (Woolwich, East)

Why do we have to insert three words in place of one? Is there any difference in meaning, or do the Government want to lengthen the Bill, which is already too long?

Mr. Corfield

I have a great deal of sympathy with the hon. Member, but I am told that the words which the Amendment would insert are those which are usually found in Statutes, and that it would be far better to stick to them rather than to depart from them and use a word which is used frequently in legal documents but not in Statutes. There is not much merit in the Amendment.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.