Lords Sitting of 22 July 1938

Preamble
The House met at four of the clock, The EARL OF LUCAN on the Woolsack.
ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL.
Brought from the Commons, endorsed with the Certificate from the Speaker that the Bill is a Money Bill within the meaning of the Parliament Act, 1911; read 1a; and to be printed.
HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and to be printed.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH PRO VISIONAL ORDER (BUCKS WATER BOARD) BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TUN NEL AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.
NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD WATERWORKS BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.
BRITISH MUSEUM BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with an Amendment: the said Amendment considered and agreed to.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with Amendments.
GATESHEAD AND DISTRICT TRAM WAYS AND TROLLEY VEHICLES BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with Amendments: the said Amendments considered and agreed to.
STANMORE UNUSED BURIAL GROUND BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with Amendments: the said Amendments considered and agreed to.
WEAR NAVIGATION AND SUNDER LAND DOCK BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with Amendments: the said Amendments considered and agreed to.

FIRE BRIGADES BILL.
THE PAYMASTER-GENERAL (THE EARL OF MUNSTER): My Lords, I beg to move the Motion which stands in my name, to ask the House to agree to advance the Report stage of the Fire Brigades Bill from Tuesday next to Monday. Various Amendments have been put down on behalf of the Government, and it will be necessary for this Bill to be returned to another place in order that that House may consider the Amendments which your Lordships have seen fit to make.
Moved, That leave be given to advance the Motion for the Report of the Amendments to the Fire Brigades Bill from Tuesday to Monday next.—(The Earl of Munster.)
On Question, Motion agreed to.

ISLAND OF ARRAN PIERS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
Considered on Report (according to Order).

BACON INDUSTRY BILL.
Amendments reported (according to Order).
Clause 10 [Licences only to be refused on specified grounds]:
THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM): My Lords, the Amendment to this clause is drafting.
Amendment moved—
Page 14, line 30, leave out the second ("an").—(The Earl of Feversham.)
On Question, Amendment agreed to.
Clause 23 [Proceedings subsequent to determination of forms of contract]:
THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM: My Lords, there is a drafting Amendment on this clause. I beg to move.
Amendment moved—
Page 28, line 28, at end insert ("duly").—(The Earl of Feversham.)
On Question, Amendment agreed to.
Clause 33 [General safeguards]:
THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM: My Lords, the next Amendment is also drafting.
Amendment moved—
Page 44, line 17, leave out ("the third section of Part IV") and insert ("Section eighteen").—(The Earl of Feversham.)
On Question, Amendment agreed to.
Clause 39 [Contributions to expenses of Marketing Boards]:
THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM: My Lords, there is also a drafting Amendment to this clause. I beg to move.
Amendment moved—
Page 51, line 36, leave out ("prescribed") and insert ("specified").—(The Earl of Feversham.)
On Question, Amendment agreed to.

NURSING HOMES REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Order of the Day for receiving the Report of Amendments read.
LORD ALNESS: My Lords, I beg to move that this Report be now received.
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In doing so, with your Lordships' permission, I should like in just a word or two to answer a question which was put to me by my noble friend the Marquess of Lothian in the Committee stage of the Bill, and which I promised to answer on the Report stage. My noble friend was concerned about the definition of "nursing home" which appears in Clause 9 of the Bill, and said that the definition
"might preclude an individual from receiving a friend or relative in his or her house, in order that better attention might be received there."
I have consulted the Department of Health with regard to this matter, and they assure me that it is inconceivable that any local authority in Scotland would take such a view or adopt such a construction of the definition as has been suggested, and that if they did so the Department would at once take it up with the local authority. My noble friend suggested the possibility of putting the word "regularly" in the clause. I am assured both by the Department of Health in Scotland and by the Minister of Health here that it would be a most unfortunate thing if the definition of "nursing home" were to differ on the two sides of the border, and accordingly I should be very slow to adopt such a suggestion. My noble friend will probably be reassured when he is told, as I could tell him were he here, that the Department of Health in England have had ten years experience of the working of the English Act, and that no trouble of any sort or kind with regard to the definition to which my noble friend alluded has been experienced. I beg to move.
Moved, That the Report of Amendments be now received.—(Lord Alness.)
On Question, Motion agreed to, and Amendments reported accordingly.
House adjourned at eight minutes past four o'clock.