Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 15 June 1933.
Mr Albert Russell
, Kirkcaldy District of Burghs
The matter just discussed by the Solicitor-General for Scotland raises an important point which has been introduced in the Amendment standing on the Order Paper, immediately before the Amendment we are discussing, in the name of the hon. Member for Maryhill (Mr. Jamieson). If is a point which has caused a good deal of discussion as to how it could be arranged that Departmental reports of Provisional Orders should be made available in time to be considered by the parties, and be brought before the Commissioners with adequate opportunity for discussion. I think that the arrangements proposed by the Government to amend the Standing Orders so as to provide an interval of seven days will remove one of the objections at which the Amendment is striking, and the promise of administrative action thereafter to make available to parties in Edinburgh those reports will, I think, do a great deal to remove very largely, if not entirely, the other objection. Accordingly, I welcome and thank the Government for having made this arrangement and given this undertaking, which, I think, will succeed in removing the grievance.
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