§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move Amendment No. 1, in page 55, line 2, to leave out "before 8th December 1965".
It may be thought a remarkable tribute to those who have worked on this Bili that, having regard to the scale and scope of the Measure, there is only this single point on which I find it necessary to move an Amendment.
In Clause 86, we deal with the prohibition of premiums and loans on assignment of protected tenancies. Clause 85 dealt with the matter of such premiums and loans on the grant of protected 641 tenancies. The effect of the Leasehold Reform Act, 1967, is that certain long tenancies became regulated tenancies as from 28th November, 1967, and it was lawful to require a premium on the grant of such a tenancy at a time between 8th December, 1965—that is, the date on which the Rent Act, 1965, took effect—and 28th November, 1967. The result is that the words which the Amendment seeks to delete are unnecessary.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clause 87 to 92 ordered to stand part of the Bill.