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Clause 31, page 29, line 35 to line 9 on page 30, leave out subsection (5) and insert as new subsections:—
(7) The section of this Act relating to notices to quit shall not apply.
(8) Subsection (2) of section eighteen of the Act of 1908, shall have effect as if at the end thereof the following words were added" and in the case of any lease so renewed the period of notice shall be not less than one year nor more than two years.
§ The Commons disagree with this Amendment, but propose the following Amendments to the Bill:
§ Clause 31, page 29, line 39, leave out from ("lease") to the end of line 40, and insert ("entered into after the passing of this Act")
§ Page 30, line 3, at end insert ("and subsection (2) of the said section shall have effect as if at the end thereof the following words were added 'and in the case of any lease so renewed the period of notice required to terminate the tenancy shall, where the notice is given after the thirty-first day of May nineteen hundred and twenty-one, but not less than one year nor more than two years'").
§ LORD STANMOREIn moving that the Commons Amendment be agreed to I shall have to ask your Lordships also to agree to a small drafting Amendment in the second line of the Commons Amendment and to substitute for the word at 945 the end of line 40 the word "if" in line 1 of page 30. Though in form the Commons disagree with your Lordships' Amendment the substance of that Amendment is preserved with two slight changes. The first of the changes increased from six months to one year the period of notice required to terminate a tenancy under a lease for two years if the lease is entered into after the passing of the Bill. This is to bring the law in Scotland into the same position as it has been brought in England by the reinsertion of Clause 11 which your Lordships have agreed to. The other change increases the period of notice required to terminate a tenancy held on tacit relocation from six months to one year only when notice is given after the 31st May, 1921. This change seems right, and is to avoid all doubt as to the validity of notices given last November. It also seems fair to preserve to any existing tenants who holds by tacit relocation or to his landlord the right to terminate the tenancy next November if notice is given in May.
§ Moved, That this House doth not insist upon the said Amendment and agrees to the Amendment made by the Commons.—(Lord Stanmore.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.