HL Deb 04 August 1919 vol 36 cc316-7

[The references are to Bill No. 72.]

Clause 1, page 1, line 22, after ("number") insert ("grade and qualifications")

Clause 1, line 23, at end insert ("Provided that no ship shall be required to carry more than one operator unless more than one operator would have been required under the provisions of the Merchant. Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914")

Clause 1, page 2, line 5, after ("ships") insert ("or a wireless telegraphy inspector")

Clause 1, page 2, line 11, after ("surveyor") insert ("or inspector")

Clause 1, page 2, line 19, after ("surveyor") insert ("or inspector")

Clause 1, page 2, line 27, after ("by") insert ("the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904, or any Order in Council made thereunder, or by").

Clause 2, page 2, line 28, leave out from ("from") to ("apply") in line 29 and insert ("a date three months after the coming into operation of the obligations imposed by this Act on British ships registered in the United Kingdom")

Clause 2, page 2, line 39, at end insert ("and 'wireless telegraphy inspector' means an officer appointed under section twenty of the Merchant. Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914, for the purposes therein mentioned").

LORD SOMERLEYTON

My Lords, these Amendments are all perfectly simple. They are nearly all drafting Amendments and I beg to move that they be agreed to.

Moved, That this House doth agree to the said Amendments.—(Lord Somerleyton.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

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