HC Deb 22 October 1973 vol 861 cc899-900

Lords Amendment: No. 40, in page 78, line 25, leave out "the councils aforesaid" and insert "regional councils".

Mr. Gordon Campbell

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

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following Lords Amendment:

No. 95, in Schedule 16, page 204, line 29, leave out paragraph 1 and insert: 1. In section 6(1) (financial provisions) for the words 'counties and large burghs whose districts' there shall be substituted the words 'regions whose areas' and for the words 'administrative scheme of' there shall be substituted the words 'order constituting'.

Mr. Campbell

The purpose of Amendment No. 95 to Schedule 16 is to provide for the expenses of a river purification board, so far as they are not defrayed out of revenue, to be defrayed by the regions whose areas are comprised wholly or partly in that of the board in proportions to be specified in the order constituting the board. The first amendment, No. 40, to Clause 134 is consequential.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendment agreed to.

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