§ Read 3a (according to Order).
§ Clause 68 [Powers of sampling]:
§ THE EARL OF MUNSTERMy Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Gage, I beg to move the first Amendment to this Bill. It is a drafting Amendment.
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Amendment moved—
Page 52, line 3o, after ("to") insert ("and determined by") and leave out ("whose decision shall he final").—(The Earl of Munster.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 103 [Short title, date of commencement and extent]:
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THE EARL OF MUNSTER moved to insert:
(4) Nothing in this Act shall impose any charge on the people, or vary the amount or incidence of, or otherwise alter, any such charge in any manner, or affect the assessment, levying, administration or application of any money raised by any such charge.
The noble Earl said: My Lords, the object of this Amendment is to preserve the Privilege of the House of Commons. An Amendment in similar terms was inserted on the Third Reading of the Bill which ultimately became the Public Health Act, 1936. It is required for the reason that in the case of Bills of this character, making a large number of minor amendments in local government law, it would be scarcely practicable to dissect each clause with a view to seeing whether any particular alteration of language might by any possibility alter the amount or incidence of a public charge. The new subsection safeguards the position in this respect, and will no doubt, as in the case of the Public Health Bill, be moved out in the House of Commons.
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Amendment moved—
Page 81, line 40, at end insert the said paragraph.—(The Earl of Munster.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.