Part of Orders of the Day — Housing Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 April 1964.
Mr Eustace Willis
, Edinburgh East
12:00,
13 April 1964
We have been discussing elsewhere a Scottish Measure dealing with shop tenancies under which the sheriff court is bound to take into consideration matters such as these. I think that this is something which the court should have the power to do, but I should like to have the views of the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland on whether this duty which we are placing on the sheriff court is in accordance with the practice of that court.
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