ACQUISITION OF LAND ETC.

HC Deb 03 August 1971 vol 822 cc1507-8

Lords Amendment: No. 6, in page 12, line 14, at end insert: ; and subsections (1) and (2) of section 158 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1962 (which relate to telegraphic lines of the Post Office affected by the stopping up, diversion or improvement of a highway in pursuance of an order under section 153 of that Act) shall have effect as if references to an order under section 153 of that Act included references to an order under the said section 28 as applied by this section.

Mr. Noble

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

I suggest that with this Amendment the House should discuss Lords Amendment No. 7, in line 38, at end, insert: and for the references to subsections (1) and (2) of section 158 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1962 and to section 153 of that Act there shall be substituted respectively references to subsections (2) and (3) of section 111 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947 and to section 46 of that Act. And Lords Amendment No. 8, in line 44, at end insert: and in the application of subsection (6) of this section to Northern Ireland for the references to subsections (1) and (2) of section 158 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1962 and to section 153 of that Act there shall be substituted respectively references to subsection (2) of section 41 of the Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1948 and to section 17 of that Act.

Mr. Noble

These are technical Amendments to enable the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications to have control over telegraphic lines. The Amendments bring the Bill into the same category as the Highways Act, 1971, the Town and Country Planning Act, 1962, and the provisions of the Post Office Act, 1969.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.