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106 Clause 18, page 19, line 29, at end insert—
(2) If in the special circumstances of any particular case the Secretary of State thinks fit, he may treat subsection (1) as if the reference to five years after commencement were a reference to eight years after commencement, but shall not do so unless the person to whom the application relates would have been entitled to be registered under that subsection on an application made immediately before the end of the five years after commencement.
§ The Commons agreed to the above amendment with the following amendments:
§ 107 Line 3, after ("if") insert ("(a)")
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108 Line 5, leave out from ("commencement") to end of line 8 and insert ("; or
(b) where subsection (1A) applies, as if the reference to five years from the date on which the person to whom the application relates attains full age were a reference to eight years from that date.").
§ Lord BelsteadMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their amendments to your Lordships' Amendment No. 43. It is consequential on Amendment No. 2, the amendment which dealt with Clause 6 in which the noble Lord, Lord Pitt, put an amendment into the Bill. I have already spoken to them.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendments.—(Lord Belstead.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.