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Page 191, line 12, at end insert:
("Provided that n the case of an election to fill a casual vacancy if the returning officer, in the case of an election of a county councillor, or the mayor, in the case of an election of a councillor of a borough, is satisfied that owing to the absence of a person from the United Kingdom it has not been reasonably practicable for his consent in writing to be given as aforesaid a telegram consenting to his nomination and purporting to have been sent by him, shall be deemed, for the purpose of this paragraph, to be consent in writing given by him on the day on which it purports to have been sent and attestation of his consent shall not be required.")
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, this is a provision which explains itself. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.