HC Deb 15 March 1965 vol 708 c1014

Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 29, leave out subsection (2) and insert: (2) The Education Acts 1944 to 1964 and this Act may be cited together as the Education Acts 1944 to 1965".

Mr. Prentice

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

I submit that it will be for the convenience of the House to discuss this with the subsequent Amendment, which is consequential upon it.

These are minor Amendments which do not in any way affect the substantive provisions of the Bill. They are necessary only because the Bill was passed through this House last year and a formal provision is necessary to make sure that, when the Bill becomes an Act, it is considered as part of the series of Education Acts listed in the Bill. The wording has to be slightly different, because there was already an Education Act, 1964, on the Statute Book and it was originally thought that there would be a second Education Act, 1964.

The wording now substituted makes allowance for the fact that the Bill will become an Act in 1965 and not in 1964. That is the only purpose of the two Amendments.

Question put and agreed to.

Remaining Lords Amendment agreed to.