HL Deb 30 July 1958 vol 211 cc504-5

[The references are to Bill(109) as first printed for the House of Commons.]

Clause 1, page 2, line 5, at beginning insert ("In an order made under paragraph (a) of the foregoing subsection for authorising the taking of water from a source from which water is supplied to an inland navigation, or")

Clause 2 page 4, line 9, after ("rate") insert ("or minimum charge")

Clause 4, page 5, line 31, at end insert— ("(2) Any reference in this Act to a river board includes a reference to the Conservators of the River Thames and the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board, and any reference to the area of a river board shall, in relation to the Conservators of the River Thames, be construed as a reference to the Thames catchment area.")

First Schedule, page 7, line 18, after ("authority"), insert ("and river board".)

First Schedule, page 7, line 25, leave out from beginning to end of line 34.

First Schedule, page 7,page 8, line 30, leave out from ("days") to ("and") in line 31 and insert ("from the date on which it is served or, in the case of publication of a notice in pursuance of any of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, from the date of the publication,")

First Schedule, page 7,line 34, leave out from ("or") to ("and") in line 35 and insert ("in the case of publication of a notice in pursuance of any of the foreoing provisions of this paragraph, from the date of the publication,")

First Schedule, page 7,page 9, line 9, leave out ("residence") and insert ("business.")

First Schedule, page 7,line 11, after ("owner") insert (",lessee")

First Schedule, page 7,line 16, after ("owner") insert (",lessee")

First Schedule, page 7,line 37, leave out from ("with") to ("person") and insert ("on a reference under the Second Schedule to this Act or by any")

page 10, line 13, leave out ("notices are") and insert ("notice of the application was")

First Schedule, page 7,leave out ("sub-paragraph (2)") and insert ("subparagraphs (2) and (3)")

Second Schedule, page 10, line 42, leave out ("arbitrator") and insert ("Lands Tribunal")

Second Schedule, page 10, line 42,leave out ("he") and insert ("it")

Second Schedule, page 11, line 11, leave out ("arbitrator") and insert ("Lands Tribunal")

Second Schedule, page 11, line 11,leave out ("he") and insert ("it")

Second Schedule, page 11, line 26, leave out from ("by") to end of line 28 and insert ("the Lands Tribunal")

Second Schedule, page 11, line 30, leave out ("arbitrator") and insert ("Lands Tribunal")

Second Schedule, page 11, line 30,leave out ("he") and insert ("it")

Second Schedule, page 11,line 37, leave out sub-paragraph (5).

Second Schedule,page 12, line 2, leave out ("an arbitrator") and insert ("the Lands Tribunal")

Second Schedule,page 12, line 2,leave out from second ("to") to end of line 8 and insert— ("the Lands Tribunal for Scotland: Provided that until sections one to three of the Lands Tribunal Act, 1949, come into force as respects Scotland, this paragraph shall have effect as if for the reference to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland there were substituted a reference to an official arbiter appointed under the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919; and sections three, five and six of that Act shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications, in relation to the determination of any question under this Schedule by an arbiter so appointed.")

LORD MANCROFT

My Lords, the Water Bill, as your Lordships may remember, is intended to prevent and relieve some of the difficulties caused by drought. Since I had the honour to introduce it to your Lordships' House on February 11 last it has practically never stopped raining and many districts have suffered from widespread floods. Your Lordships may consider therefore that the Commons Amendments to the Bill, to which I now ask your Lordships' agreement, wear a faintly theoretical air. They are also, I am glad to say, completely uncontroversial and in most cases little more than drafting. Unless your Lordships have any particular point you want to raise, I suggest that here again we might approve the Amendments en bloc. I beg to move accordingly.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Mancroft.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.