§ THIRD READING.
§ Order of the Day for the Third Reading read.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 3a."—(The Earl Cadogan.)
1902§ * THE MARQUESS OF WATERFORDI would remind the noble Lord that I asked him a question about this Bill yesterday, which I said I would put again to-day.
§ THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (Earl CADOGAN)My noble Friend asked why the date was fixed in one of these alternatives as the 1st of June, 1893. The reason is very simple. It is actually in the clause itself, if my noble Friend takes the trouble to read the clause:
From and after the date at which the appeals mentioned in Sub-section 2 of Section 29 of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891, shall have been disposed of.And that sub-section of Section 29 runs as follows:Provided that the duty of sanctioning advances under the Land Purchase Acts and this Act shall be discharged exclusively by the Commissioners appointed under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1835, until the fair rent, appeals lodged on or before the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one shall have been disposed of.It was simply in order to make the two dates run together.
§ * THE MARQUESS OF WATERFORDI would draw my noble Friend's attention to this, that the one alternative deals with the Commissioners under the Act of 1881, and the other with the Commissioners under the Act of 1885; and it appears to me unfair that the Commissioners under the Act of 1885 are to wait to have their salaries increased until the work to be done by the Commissioners under the Act of 1881 shall have been finished.
§ EARL CADOGANMy Lords, I do not represent the Treasury in this case. I have given the only answer that I have received from the Treasury, and I can do no more.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read 3a, and passed.