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Lords Amendment: No. 41, in page 225, line 6, at end insert:
(4) In 1974 the ordinary day of election of London borough councillors shall be the first Thursday in May.
§ Mr. CarlisleI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
997 The purpose is to ensure that there is no doubt about the day of the ordinary election of London borough councillors in 1974. The effect is that it will be the first Thursday in May, which will be the day for all local elections after 1974.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords Amendment: No. 42, in page 226, line 23, leave out "general".
§ The Minister for Local Government and Development (Mr. Graham Page)I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This is a drafting Amendment. The reference to the "annual general meeting" of the Greater London Council or London boroughs is quite wrong. They do not have an annual general meeting; they merely have annual meetings.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords Amendment: No. 43, in page 226, line 47, leave out from "council" to end of line 49.
§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
The words to be left out relate to aldermanic retirement dates. The aldermen will now disappear from London in 1976–77. An earlier provision in paragraph 11 of the Schedule adequately covers the ground covered by the words which the Amendment will Omit.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.