§ (The Earl of Shaftesbury.)
§ Commons Amendments considered.
§ Order of the Day for resuming the debate on the Motion for consideration of the Commons' Amendments to the Lords' Amendments and the Commons' Reasons for disagreeing to some of the Amendments made by the Lords, read.
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYsaid, that his noble and learned Friend on the Woolsack had introduced an Amendment to make valid orders made by magistrates in ignorance of the slip in the Bill of last year. He thought this Amendment, though right in itself, might bear rather hardly on persons against whom such orders had been made, and who might have appealed against them, but had not done so because they knew they wore invalid.
THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid, he did not think the objection of his noble Friend well founded. The effect of his Amendment would only be to make valid orders which but for the slip in the Bill of last year would have been 725 valid. It would not make valid orders which were invalid on any other ground, and therefore it would work no injustice; because if there were no such Amendment the only effect would be in the case of persons whose orders were invalid by reason of the slip in the Bill of last year to oblige such persons to institute proceedings under this Act.
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYsaid, the explanation of his noble and learned Friend removed his objection.
§ Further debate resumed accordingly.
§ Motion agreed to; Commons Amendments and Reasons considered; Amendments to which the Commons disagree, not insisted on; Commons Amendments to Lords Amendments, agreed to, with Amendments; consequential Amendments made; and Bill returned to the Commons.
§ House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, 'till To-morrow, a quarter before Five o'clock.