§ Lords Amendment: In page 18, line 35, leave out from beginning to end of line 37.
§ Mr. StonehouseI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
The object of the Amendment is to remove a power given to the Minister to obtain from the Authority information which the Authority may not wish to supply to him. Their Lordships felt that this was a slur on the independence of the Authority and an indication of a lack of confidence on the part of the Minister. The original form of words has been included in many statutes in the past, but as it has not been used we felt that we could well agree with the Lords that these words should be deleted.
§ Question put and agreed to.