Friday, 22 March 1929
The House met at Eleven of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Windermere Urban District Council Bill, Read the Third time, and passed.
Mr. TOWNEND asked the President of the Board of Trade, what was the average number of days of sick leave per head during each of the last three years
Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.
Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 4, after the word "government," insert: to extend the application of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, to hereditaments in which no persons are...
Lords Amendment: In page 2, leave out from the word "shall" in line 9, to the word "be" in line 10.
Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 38, after the word "amount," insert "if any."
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 44, at the end, insert:
The council of every county and county borough shall, when making provision for hospital accommodation in discharge of the functions transferred to them under this Part of this Act, consult such...
Lords Amendment: In page 13, line 20, at the end, insert: Provided that any such council or authority may, by agreement with the governing body of any association or fund established for the...
Lords Amendment: In page 14, leave out from the word "the," in line 24, to the word "reference" in line 28.
Lords Amendment: In page 19, line 35, after the word "occurring," insert "on or."
Lords Amendment: In page 25, leave out from the word "and" in line 22, to the word "all" in line 24.
Lords Amendment: In page 33, line 29, leave out "every county council shall."
Lords Amendment: In page 37, line 36, at the end, insert:
(1) In any case in which a public utility undertaking sustains damage by reason of the exercise by a county council, in relation to any road vested in them by virtue of this Part of this Act, of...
Lords Amendment: In page 40, line 15, leave out "thirty-nine," and insert: thirty-four or such later date before the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight as the...
Lords Amendment: In page 45, line 32, at the end, insert:
(1) The council of any county or county borough, or of any district, and the common council of the City of London and the council of any metropolitan borough and any joint committee or joint...
Lords Amendment: In page 46, line 19, leave out the second "county."
Lords Amendment: In page 46, line 42, at the end, insert:
"Section two hundred and thirty-six of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (which contains provisions as to the publication of notices and correspondence with respect to the approval of sales,...
"Subject as hereinafter provided, the council of a rural district shall have the like powers of promoting and opposing Bills in Parliament and of prosecuting or defending any legal proceedings...
Lords Amendment: In page 48, leave out from the word "apply" in line 20, to the word "with" in line 22.
Lords Amendment: In page 50, leave out from the word "if" in line 30 to the word "he" in line 31.
Lords Amendment: In page 51, leave out from the word "county," in line 10, to the end of the Sub-section.
Lords Amendment: In page 56, line 2, at the end, insert:
Subsection (2) of Section three of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, shall have effect as if there were therein inserted after the word "Act" the word following, that is to say:...
Lords Amendment: In page 57, line 18, at the end, insert:
"It shall not be necessary for any rating authority in defining by resolution the class of hereditaments whereof the owners are to be rated instead of the occupiers, to define the class by...
Lords Amendment: In page 57, leave out from the word "operations," in line 26, to the end of paragraph (b), and insert: and whose wages are subject to the provisions of the Agricultural Wages...
Lords Amendment: In page 58, leave out from the beginning of line 10 to the first word "the" in line 12, and insert: (2) Where any part of any premises for the time being assessed as an...
Lords Amendment: In page 58, line 40, after the word "may," insert the words "by Order."
Lords Amendment: In page 60, line 12, leave out "or may."
Lords Amendment: In page 66, line 41, leave out Sub-sections (4) and (5).
Lords Amendment: In page 68, line 12, at the end, insert:
"(1) The General Exchequer Contributions shall be apportioned amongst the several counties and county boroughs in manner hereinafter following, that is to say:—(a) during the first four...
Lords Amendment: In page 71, leave out from the word "shall," in line 4, to the word "a," in line 7, and insert: before the beginning of each fixed grant period, after consultation with the...
Lords Amendment: In page 81, line 32, after the word "may," insert provide for that expenditure being taken in appropriate cases to be the amount of the payments made in any year and may
Lords Amendment: In page 87, line 28, after the word "therefor" insert within fifteen years from the appointed day either.
Lords Amendment: In page 94, line 7, at the end, insert: (8) Where any person or authority, other than a rating authority, receives any income applicable to the repair or maintenance of roads in...
Lords Amendment: In page 94, leave out from the word "upon" in line 25 to the word "or" in line 26.
Lords Amendment: In page 99, line 26, after the word "service" insert: or in any service in which the said provisions continue to apply to them by virtue of section eight of the said Act.
Lords Amendment: In page 104, line 21, leave out "and of," and insert "to furnish and to instruct."
Lords Amendment: In page 106, line 38, after the second word "order" insert "made under the last foregoing section or."
Lords Amendment: In page 107, line 21, after the word "section" insert: shall come into operation upon the date specified therein in that behalf, but.
Lords Amendment: In page 122, leave out from the first word "the," in line 25, to the end of line 35, and insert:
Lords Amendment: In page 133, line 16, at the end, insert: unless throughout the period of his service in that office he devoted the whole of his time to the duties of offices held by him under...
Lords Amendment: In page 141, line 43, at the end, insert: (6) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section one of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, it shall not be...
Lords Amendment: In page 144, line 10, at the end, insert: (10) Section sixteen of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, shall have effect as if the words 'in pursuance of this Act'...
Resolution reported, That it is expedient to amend the Police Magistrates (Superannuation) Act, 1915, so far as it relates to Metropolitan police magistrates, and to authorise the charge on the...
"to amend the Police Magistrates (Superannuation) Act, 1915, so far as relates to Metropolitan Police Magistrates, presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon...
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Captain Margesson.]
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