HL Deb 30 October 1975 vol 365 cc709-10

[No. 16]

After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause:

Transfer to Agency of land held under Local Employment Act 1972

".— (1) All land in Wales which was acquired by or vested in any Minister of the Crown under an enactment specified in subsection (2) below and which is held (otherwise than as security for a loan) for the purposes of the Local Employment Act 1972 shall vest in the Agency, subject to all rights, liabilities and obligations relating to it.

(2) The enactments mentioned in subsection (1) above are the Distribution of Industry Acts 1945 to 1958, the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1971 and the Local Employment Act 1972,"

Lord LOVELL-DAVIS

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 16. The effect of the new clause is to transfer to the Agency the freeholds of all land in Wales in which the Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation, the functions of which body are to be subsumed within the Agency, have an interest. I beg to move.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.

On Question, Motion agreed to.