§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
*THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (The Marquess of LOTHIAN)My Lords, I would ask your Lordships to give a Second Reading to this Bill. It is a purely technical measure. It is to remove some doubts which have arisen in reference to the Local Government of Scotland Act, 1889, in certain details. Some doubt has been expressed whether under one of the sections the registration of writs relating to districts, transferred by the Boundary Commissioners under the Act from one county to another, can be properly made in the Register of Sasines, and the Bill proposes to postpone the dates of Orders for a year from the time mentioned in the Act, the object being to enable them to come into effect at the same time. With that short explanation, I have to ask your Lordships to give the Bill a Second Reading.
§ Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.