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Clause 8, page 15, line 39, after subsection (10), insert as a new subsection:
("() When determining for the purposes of this section what rent is properly payable in respect of a holding which is held otherwise than on yearly tenancy, the arbitrator may, on the application of the landlord or tenant direct that the reduction or increase shall not take effect unless the tenant or landlord, as the case may be, agrees to renew the tenancy for such period as the arbitrator shall determine.")
§ The Commons disagree with this Amendment for the following Reason:
§ Because it unnecessarily interferes with the right to claim arbitration as to rent.
§ LORD LEE OF FAREHAMI move that this House do not insist on this Amendment. Your Lordships will recall that at a previous stage the Lord Chancellor, on behalf of the Government, expressed the opinion that the Amendment was not necessary, but if pressed that he would not resist it. He added, however, some very good advice to the effect that when any unnecessary clause is inserted in a Bill it gives considerable employment to the legal profession, and possibly no benefit to anyone else: On this ground I hope your Lordships will not disagree with the decision of the Commons that it would be wise to omit the subsection, as it complicates, and to some extent abrogates, the right of the tenant.
§ Moved, That this House doth not insist upon the said Amendment.—(Lord Lee of Fareham.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.