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Lords Amendment No. 53: In page 73, line 47, leave out from "then" to end of line 4 on page 74 and insert:
in relation to the Crown interest and the person to whom it belongs this Schedule shall have effect as it has effect in relation to other landlords and their interests, but with the appropriate authority having power to act as reversioner or otherwise for purposes of this Schedule on behalf of that person:
Provided that paragraph 4(1)(a) above shall not apply to the execution of a conveyance or lease on behalf of the person to whom a Crown interest belongs.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
The Amendment covers a technical defect in paragraph 14 of the First Schedule which was added on Report. This makes provision for the application of the Schedule where there is a chain of leases and one link of the chain is the Crown. Although the appropriate Crown authority under Clause 34(2) can act as the reversioner, it ought not in all cases to execute the actual conveyance or substituted lease. For example, in the case of land vested in the Duchy of Lancaster, although the appropriate authority is the Chancellor of the Duchy, execution should continue to be by the Queen under the seal of the Duchy or County Palatine. This is a form of transfer and it is appropriate that it should be provided for in this Statute.
§ Question put and agreed to.