ENACTMENTS REPEALED (Hansard, 23 October 1968)

§ Mr. Skeffington
I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This is drafting.

§ Mr. Graham Page
This is the very Amendment to which I was referring on a previous Amendment when I said that a Section had been amended and then repealed. It may be that we have a wrong line in Amendment 246 and that it was intended to take out of the repeal Schedule, Section 183(1), but instead we have taken out the next line of the Schedule. I am not certain whether it was intended that we should restore to the law Section 194(6) and (7) of the 1962 Act or whether we should take out Section 183(1), but as the Bill stands, we have amended Section 183 and now we come to the repeal Schedule and remove Section 183(1). I do not know whether the Parliamentary Secretary is informed of the real position, but I think the House should be told what it is.

§ Mr. Skeffington
I think we are right. The Amendment deletes the entry in the repeal Schedule relating to Section 194(6) and (7) of the 1962 Act because these subsections were repealed in previous legislation. I will check this, but it seems to be correct.

§ Mr. Graham Page
With the leave of the House, may I say that this does not solve our problem. We are left with an amended Section which is then repealed and I put the point that we had perhaps got hold of the wrong line in the printing in Amendment 246. If we had, this would have solved our problem. We cannot leave the Bill in one Clause amending a Section of an Act and then repealing it.

§ Mr. Skeffington
Subsection (1) of Section 183 is repealed, but the Amendment is to Subsection (2).

§ Mr. Graham Page
It is not.