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Clause 56, page 44, line 13, at end insert—
("() A local authority shall not have power to give a direction under this section without the approval of any body which is an interested body as defined in subsection (1) of section fourteen of the Act of 1937, unless in any particular case the Minister by a notice to the local authority dispenses with the requirements of this subsection.")
§ LORD BRECONMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons Amendment No. 24. The purpose of this Amendment is to require the local authority, before issuing any direction under this section, to obtain the approval of any "interested body"—that is, a neighbouring or adjoining sewerage authority, harbour authority, and so on, who receive the effluent from the local authority's sewer in question. Similar requirements exist under Clause 54 (3), with respect to charges for exempt effluents, and under Clause 59 (2), with respect to the variation of conditions on discharges generally, and it seems reasonable and logical to make the same provision in this clause. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Brecon.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.