§ Lords Amendment: No. 2, in page 12, line 24, leave out "before 16th May 1980".
§ The Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Agriculture, Scottish Office (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)I beg to move. That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
The Government agree that the change of a local authority's name is a sufficiently important matter to justify retaining the requirement to obtain the Secretary of State's approval beyond the initial 877 five-year period provided for in the Bill. The argument was presented forcibly in another place and we are happy to accept the amendment.
§ Question put and agreed to