HL Deb 30 June 1937 vol 105 c964

Clause 12, page 12, line 14, at end insert: ("(2) The Minister may by order provide that, in relation to any such area as may be specified in the order, being an area in which a sewerage system or sewage disposal system is provided by a joint sewerage authority, the functions of a local authority under such provisions of this Act as may be so specified shall be discharged by that joint sewerage authority, either as well as, or instead of, by the local authority, according as the order in my direct; and any such order may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.")

VISCOUNT GAGE

My Lords, this is a special clause that has been agreed to. It deals with the special position of the County of Middlesex. I beg to move that we agree with it.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Viscount Gage.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.