§ Clause 13, page 19, line 4, after ("that") insert:
- ("(a) no scheme prepared under this section shall be referred to the Railway and Canal Commission unless the owner of at least one undertaking proposed to be amalgamated or absorbed by the scheme assents to the scheme being so referred;
- (b)")
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The Commons disagree to the above Amendment for the following Reason:—
Because cases may occur where, although the owners are not averse to amalgamation, no one of them, is willing to accept responsibility for allowing a scheme to be made.
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYMy Lords, this Amendment was inserted in Committee in order to secure that at least one of the amalgamated undertakings should approve of the amalgamation. The reason was of course that we did not see, and do not now see, how an amalgamation is to work if everybody who is to be in the amalgamation is opposed to it. That was the reason why we put the Amendment in; but here again we desire to respond to the appeal of the noble Earl opposite—I hope he will not think I am any longer plaintive—that we should be conciliatory. I therefore move that his House do not insist upon this Amendment.
§ Moved, That this House doth not insist upon the said Amendment.—(The Marquess of Salisbury.)