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Clause to, page 5, leave out lines 3 to 6 and insert:
("(2) Regulations under this section shall not be made until a draft thereof has lain before each House of Parliament for a period of thirty days during the Session of Parliament, and if, before the expiration of that period, an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House against the draft, no further proceedings shall be taken thereon, without prejudice however to the making of any new' draft regulations:
Provided that in reckoning any such period of thirty days as aforesaid no account shall he taken of any time during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.
(3) No regulations made under this section shall authorise—
§ LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYALMy Lords, this Amendment has been introduced in response to a desire expressed for greater safeguards in relation to the provisions to be made for the disposal of records by destruction or otherwise. It provides Parliamentary control over the making of regulations on this subject and attaches conditions which must be observed in the framing of these regulations. The regulations must not authorise (a) the disposal of records relating to a. Government Department or belonging to a local authority without the consent of that Department or 44 authority, or (b) the disposal of any record of older date than the year 1800. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.