§ Page 37, line 14, leave out from ("includes") to ("and") in line 20 and insert ("such deficiency in respect of internal painting and papering or distempering of walls as is likely to injure or endanger the health of the occupants of the house, except in so far as any such deficiency is attributable to the default or neglect of the said occupants").
§ The Commons disagree to the above Amendment bat hare amended the words so restored to the Bill by leaving out from the word ("the") in line 17 to the word ("and") in line 20, and inserting the words ("default or neglect of the occupants of the house").
§ VISCOUNT NOVARMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth disagree with the Commons Amendment to page 37, line 14, and proposes the following Amendment in lieu thereof: line 14, leave out from "includes" to "and" in line 20 and insert "such deficiency arising from default on the part of the landlord in respect of internal painting and papering or distempering of walls as is injurious or dangerous to the health of the inhabitants." That Motion, again, is in 1196 tended to bring the Scottish Bill into line with the English Bill according to the Amendment proposed by my noble friend the Earl of Onslow.
§ Moved, That this House doth disagree with the Commons Amendment to page 37, line 14, and proposes the following Amendment in lieu thereof: Line 14, leave out from ("includes") to ("and") in line 20, and insert ("such deficiency arising from default on the part of the landlord in respect of internal painting and papering or distempering of walls as is injurious or dangerous to the health of the inhabitants.")—(Viscount Novar.)
§ LORD MARLEYMy Lords, again the Government must support the attitude taken up in another place in this matter. The point has been discussed so often that I will not detain the House. We do want to allow this question of internal painting and decorating to be taken into account as one element only in considering whether a house is unfit for human habitation. It is not a question of a landlord being compelled to redecorate a house. It is merely that when we look at a house and see the walls damaged and windows broken, we want to be able also to look at the internal painting and decorating and see whether that is one element in making the house unfit for human habitation. I must maintain support of the position taken up by the House of Commons in this matter and resist the Motion of the noble Viscount.
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ A Committee appointed to prepare a Reason to be offered to the Commons for the Lords disagreeing to the Commons Amendment to one of the Lords Amendments: The Committee to meet forthwith.
§ Report from the Committee read, and agreed to; and a Message ordered to be sent to the Commons to return the said Bill with the Reason.