LORDS AMENDMENT. (Hansard, 5 August 1947)

§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, in Clause 67, page 77, line 12, we propose at the end to insert: and shall provide that the amount of the said charge shall having regard to the terms and conditions on and subject to which planning permission has been granted be determined without any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to one applicant over another. That was the Amendment which we made. The Commons have disagreed with that Amendment, and propose in lieu thereof to insert these words, and shall not give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to one applicant over another. I must say that I think the Commons Amendment is an improvement on ours. Whereas we propose merely to insert these 976 words in regulations, they propose to insert these words in the Bill itself. True wisdom is always to insist on thinking that the other fellow's suggestion is better than your own when you think of it. Here I believe all parts of the House will agree that this is an improvement. Accordingly, I beg to move that we do not insist on our Amendment, but that in lieu thereof we accept the Commons Amendment.

§ LORD LLEWELLIN

My Lords, as the noble and learned Viscount on the Woolsack has said, this is an improvement on the Amendment which we sent to the other place. It is true that our Amendment was better than having nothing at all in the Bill. It was better that we should provide that this idea should be incorporated somewhere. As the noble and learned Viscount has said, we provided that it should be in the regulations, and the other place have now put it into the substance of the Bill. We should be grateful to them for this I Amendment. I am at one with the noble and learned Viscount in saying that we should not insist on our previous Amendment, but should accept the Commons Amendment in lieu thereof.