§ Clause 75, page 44, line 18, at end insert:
("Provided that a county councillor elected for an electoral division consisting wholly of a county district or of some part of a county district shall not vote on any matter involving only expenditure on count of which the county district is not, for the time being, liable to be charged.")
§ LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, this proviso is based on Section 35 (6) of the Local Government Act, 1888, which prohibits a. county council for an electoral division which is wholly comprised within a Quarter Sessions borough, and which had a population of 10,000 or over in 1881, from voting in respect of any question involving expenditure on account of which the parishes are not for the time being liable to be assessed equally with the rest of the county, to county contributions. Owing to some remarks made in another place when the Bill was before the Joint Select Committee, the Department were asked to prepare a memorandum on the matter for the consideration of the Committee. At that time, the Department felt some doubt whether the proviso would, in fact, work satisfactorily, and suggested to the Committee that the simplest course might be to omit the proviso altogether. The matter has been gone into very carefully again, and the County Councils' Association have taken the matter tip, and they are satisfied that the administrative difficulties are not so serious as the Department thought. Therefore, in another place it was thought fit to put in these words.
§ Moved, That this House cloth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The. Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.