§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move, in page 21, line 2, to leave out "term" and to insert "duration".
This is a drafting Amendment. Under Clause 22, a premium charged is arrived 1464 at by deducting from the amount of the premium 2 per cent. in each year of the lease except the first. If a lease is granted for 99 years with an option to break after 7 years, Clause 25 lays down that the period to be taken into account is 7 years. In Clause 25 the nomenclature adopted is to call ninety-nine years the term of the lease and the Amendment makes that consistent with Clause 22.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move, in page 21, line 47, to leave out "him" and to insert:
a person other than the landlord, or payable to a person".This Amendment corrects a flaw in the drafting of subsection (5). It was clearly the intention that this subsection should also provide for payments made to third persons, and not only the landlord himself as, otherwise, the landlord could require the tenant to pay the sum to the landlord's wife, or a connected company, or whatever it might be. This Amendment corrects that mistake.
§ Amendment agreed to.