§ Lords Amendment: No. 257, in page 124, line 13, leave out "on and after 1st April 1974".
§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
It will perhaps be convenient also to discuss Amendments Nos. 264, 265, 315, 317, 322, 326, 331, 332, 333, 341, 358, 359, 360, 362, 364, 365, 366 367, 368, 370, 372, 382, 419, 433, 434, 446, 447, 448, 467 and 483.
1145 These are drafting incidentals which arise in relation to the subject of commencement, but they are separate from the new Clause with which we shall deal on Amendment No. 630, which is the main provision on commencement. These Amendments are incidental, not consequential on that Amendment because all they do is to take out a number of references to 1st April, 1974, in Clauses which, even if the new Clause were not accepted, will, under Clause 259, as it stands, commence on that date anyway. Therefore, the references are superfluous, whatever we may do later with Clause 259 or Amendment No. 630.
§ Question put and agreed to.