§ Page 33, line 16, at end insert as a new clause:
§ Supply of electricity to railway companies, &c.
§ (". Where any authorised undertakers may supply and are supplying within their district or area of supply electricity for haulage or traction to any company or authority being the owners or lessees of a railway, tramway, dock, harbour or canal undertaking situate partly within and partly without that district or area, such authorised undertakers may, subject to such limitations and conditions (if any) as the Minister of Transport may prescribe either generally or in any particular case, so supply electricity to be used for any purposes of such undertaking, whether within or without such district or area of supply, and such company or authority may, subject to such limitations and conditions (if any) as the Minister of Transport may prescribe either generally or in any particular case, use the electricity so supplied for any purposes of their undertaking for which they are entitled to use electricity:
§ Provided that so such supply shall, without the consent of the Minister of Transport, he used by such company or authority for purposes of lighting, other than the lighting of vehicles or stations and other premises in the occupation of such company or authority.")
§ The Commons propose to amend the above Amendment as follows:
§ line 5, leave out ("tramway")
§ line 7, after ("subject") insert ("to the consent of the Minister of Transport and")
§ line 8, leave out ("the Minister of Transport") and insert ("he")
§ line 13, after ("subject") insert ("to the consent of the Minister of Transport and")
§ lines 13 and 14, leave out ("the Minister of Transport") and insert ("he")
§ line 18, leave out from ("that") to the end of the clause, and insert ("the Minister of Transport shall not in any case give any such consent until notice 1688 of the application for the consent has been given by advertisement or otherwise in such manner as the Minister may direct, and an opportunity has been given to any person who appears to the Minister to be affected of making representations thereon")
§ VISCOUNT PEELMy Lords, these Amendments are not of very great importance. The Amendment made by your Lordships was originally moved by the late Lord Emmott, and the effect of the Commons Amendments is to require that in certain cases the consent of the Minister should be necessary, and to give an opportunity to make representations.
§ Moved, That this House doth not insist upon its Amendment, but agrees with the Commons in the Amendments proposed to the said Amendment—(Viscount Peel.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.