§ Mr. SkeffingtonI beg to move Amendment No. 150, in page 62, leave out line 20.
This Amendment would have the effect of deleting the reference to Schedule 2 to the Land Compensation Act, 1961. This reference is unnecessary because it is already automatically provided for in the 1961 Act as part of the normal compensation code, so its appearance might be misleading as well as being unnecessary.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonI beg to move Amendment No. 151, in page 62, line 33, at end insert—
(5) For the purposes of this Schedule a person who on the death of another became entitled to any interest of his shall be deemed to have been entitled to that interest as from the date of the death.I should like to place on record that this Amendment in part owes its appearance to the eloquent speeches made in Committee by the hon. Member for Poole (Mr. Murton) who was most anxious that members of a family, or someone having a close interest, would, when there was some change—perhaps by death—be able to take advantage of the grant position. The Amendment extends the reference, so that a widow, for example, who inherits from her husband, could be treated, for the purpose of obtaining a grant, as having a relative interest from the moment of the unfortunate decease of her husband. I think that this will be a welcome Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.