§ [No. 12.]
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Schedule 6, page 113, line 28, at end insert—
'(2) This paragraph is hereby repealed as from immediately after the time when the repeal by this Act of the entry referred to in subparagraph (1)(a) above has effect.'
§ The LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 12. This Amendment would 979 add a self-repealing provision to paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the Bill. That paragraph, which is needed because the Bill would probably come into force shortly before the coming into force of the Local Land Charges Act 1975, one provision of which it consolidates, is needed at most for only a very brief period—probably only a few weeks. The inclusion of the self-repealing provision that would be provided by this Amendment would enable the Land Drainage Act, when it comes to be printed for the new edition of the Statute Book, Statutes in Force, to be printed without this paragraph, which will by then be dead wood.
§ Lord CARRINGTONMy Lords, I am sorry to intervene but I am sure that it would be the wish of noble Lords on all sides of the House to congratulate the House of Commons on the revisory role that they have played in this legislation, which clearly left this House in a very slipshod fashion. There are many of us who think that if they confined themselves to that role things would perhaps go better.
§ The LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I do not blame the noble Lord for his undoubted justifiably impatient but, alas!, premature intervention in the flood of my submissions to the House. I do not think that I put to the House the Question on Amendment No. 12.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment. (The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.