§ Clause 2, page 2, line 19, leave out from beginning to ("may") and insert ("five persons, being a chairman and four other members, two of whom shall, in the opinion of the Commission, be representative of the interests mentioned in heads (b) and (c), and two of the interests in heads (d) and (e) of subsection (4) of the last foregoing section, and of any such panel as aforesaid three shall be a quorum.
§ (2) The Commission").
§ Leave out lines 23 to 27.
§ LORD FORBESMy Lords, if I may, I should like to take Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 together. The effect of these Amendments is that the membership of the panel which was fixed at a minimum of three is now altered to a fixed number 349 of five—that is, a Chairman and four members. Two of the members will represent farming and crofting interests, and two of the other members will represent the sporting and land-owning interests. That means that the interests of the members on the panel will be balanced. It also provides for a quorum of three. It was felt that the minimum membership of three made no allowance for any unavoidable absence. The second Amendment is consequential on the first. My Lords, I beg to move that this House cloth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Forbes.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.