HL Deb 29 June 1982 vol 432 cc177-8

18 Clause 31, page 19, line 33, leave out "this section" and insert "subsection (1)".

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 18.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

Lord Mishcon

If it will assist the noble and learned Lord and the House—may I say that his explanations are always so clear—when there are amendments in a grouping if he would like to take them, and if it is in order for him to do so, as an entity instead of seriatim, I will have no point at all to raise, I am merely thinking of the extreme amount of walking that the noble and learned Lord has to do—which I am sure is necessary in view of the present conditions in any event.

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord and I should like to do so because it seems much more sensible than what I am doing. But I am told that I must deal with the amendments the other way.

On Question, Motion agreed to.