§ Mr. Liddallasked the Attorney-General whether, having regard to the decision in Langford Property Company, Limited, v. Pajzs, His Majesty's Government will consider, when drafting future Acts amending earlier legislation dealing with war damage, the insertion of words making such amendment retrospective to the date of the principal Act?
§ The Attorney-GeneralIt would, I think, be quite wrong to adopt a general principle that all Acts dealing with war damage or its effects should be retrospective. The case referred to arose out of Section 1 of the Landlord and Tenant War Damage (Amendment) Act, 1941. This, as submitted to the House, was not made retrospective for reasons which commended themselves to the Government, and no suggestion that it should be retrospective was made in the Debates.