§ Bill read 3a, with the Amendments.
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE)I think I ought to explain that there is a further Amendment in addition to the Amendments of which notice has been given. It comes from the Inland Revenue, and as it only reached the promoters at 1.30 p.m. to-day it has been quite impossible for them to give proper notice if the Bill was to be read a third time to-clay. The proper course would be to postpone the Third Reading in order that the usual notice might be given. This, however, is an agreed Amendment between Somerset House and the promoters, 732 and it affects nobody except Somerset House and the promoters. The result of delaying the Bill would be to cause the promoters to lose a valuable twenty-four hours in getting their Amendments through the other House, and I therefore suggest that your Lordships would do well not to insist on the strict rigidity of the rules of the House on this occasion but allow this Amendment to be inserted.
§ Further Amendments made: Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.