Private Business – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 November 1973.
Amendment made : In page 2, line 5, at end insert—
'(2A) Plans showing the lines and situations of the aforesaid lands and a book of reference to the plans showing the names of the owners or reputed owners, and of the occupiers, of the lands which may be acquired or used compulsorily for the purposes or under the powers of this Act were duly deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the sheriff-clerk of the county of Zetland, which plans and book of reference are in this Act referred to respectively as the deposited plans and the deposited book of reference'.—[Mr. Grimond.]
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