§ Read 3a (according to Order), with the Amendments.
§ Clause 6 [Modifications in enactments consequential on this Part of this Act and the Local Government Act, 1958]:
§ THE MINISTER OF STATE, SCOTTISH OFFICE (LORD STRATHCLYDE)My Lords, I regret having to trouble your Lordships at this stage with a small Amendment to this Bill. It is purely a drafting Amendment. It is an economy in the use of words; it deletes three lines of print and substitutes five words which mean exactly the same thing. I beg to move.
§ Amendment moved—
§
Page 5, line 15, leave out lines 15 to 17 and insert
(the Local Government Act. 1958.")—(Lord Strathclyde.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.