HC Deb 23 October 1972 vol 843 cc943-4

Lords Amendment: No. 37, in page 6, line 1, leave out from beginning to "in" and insert "Subject to subsection (6A) below, a non-metropolitan district council may".

The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Mark Carlisle)

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

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Miss Harvie Anderson)

With this Amendment we shall take Lords Amendments Nos. 38, 77 and 78.

Mr. Carlisle

Although this is not quite a drafting Amendment, it meets a point raised by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Deptford (Mr. John Silkin) on Report, and ensures that a non-metropolitan district council must exercise an option on the method of election within 10 years of previously exercising the option.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendment agreed to.

Lords Amendment: No. 39, divide Clause 7 into two Clauses, the first to consist of subsections (1) and (2); and the second to consist of subsections (3) to (10) inclusive.

Mr. Carlisle

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

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this Amendment it would be convenient to consider Lords Amendment No. 79.

Mr. Carlisle

This is the last of a group of drafting Amendments. The purpose is to divide into two what had become an over-long Clause.

Question put and agreed to.

Further consideration of the Lords Amendments adjourned.—[Mr. Graham Page.]

Lords Amendments to be further considered tomorrow.

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