LORDS AMENDMENT. (Hansard, 1 August 1944)

§ THE EARL OF SELBORNE

My Lords, the Amendment referred to was one of the consequential Amendments to the Amendment of my noble friend Earl Stanhope. The purpose of Amendment was to abolish the phrase "young people's college" and substitute "county college." As a result of that Amendment being carried, the words "young people's college" throughout the Bill were struck out, and the words "county college" substituted. But when you come to page 76 of the Bill you there find yourselves in the definition clause, and the consequential Amendment just does rot read. If your Lordships will look at Clause 107, page 76, line 28, you will see that them is a definition of the word "assist." The clause states: 'Assist' in relation to any school or young people's college has the gleaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of this section. A young people's college never can be assisted because it is wholly maintained 14 by the State. How that definition ought to read is: 'Assist' in relation to any school, college, or institution has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of this section. Therefore this is a consequential Amendment that was wrongly made. I beg to move that the Amendment proposed by the Commons be made in lieu of the Lords Amendment.