HC Deb 21 July 1987 vol 120 c271

Lords amendment: No. 29, in page 12, line 47, after first "notice" insert and (b) any Concession agreement other than one so specified shall be taken to be valid and effective at any time on or after the date on which it is expressed to take effect;

Mr. David Mitchell

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 take Lords amendments Nos. 30 to 38.

Mr. Mitchell

These are tidying-up amendments. They remove references to concession leases from the clause, and that takes them out of the jurisdiction of the international arbitral tribunal; they will, instead, be subject to English law and the English courts. There is also one technical amendment providing for agreement supplementing a concessionary agreement to the value.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendments agreed to.

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