§ 5.12 p.m.
§ Order of the Day for the Third Reading read.
852§ LORD HENDERSONMy Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be read a third time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 3a.—(Lord Henderson.)
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (LORD JOWITT)My Lords, I have it in command from His Majesty to signify to the House that His Majesty, having been informed of the purport of the Building Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Bill, gives His consent, as far as His Majesty's interest is concerned on behalf of the Crown, that the House may do therein as they shall think fit.
§ On Question, Bill read 3a.
§ Clause 3 [Supplementary Provisions as to enforcement]:
§ LORD HENDERSONMy Lords, I beg to move an Amendment to correct a drafting omission. It will be remembered that in the Committee stage of this Bill subsection (3) and subsection (4) of the clause were inserted at the suggestion of the Government in order to meet representations which had been received from the London County Council and other local government sources. It has now been suggested that subsection (4) might, in certain contingencies which were not thought of when the two subsections were drafted, have the effect of preventing action under subsection (3). The words proposed to be inserted will remove this possibility.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 3, page 5, line 40, after ("this") insert ("and the next following").—(Lord Henderson.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD HENDERSONMy Lords, what I have said in support of the Amendment which you have just been good enough to accept applies also to the second Amendment standing in my name.
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Amendment moved—
Page 6, line 1, after ("this") insert ("and the next following").—(Lord Henderson.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.