Gwener, 26 Ebrill 1929
The House met at Eleven of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.
Pacific Cable Board Bill [Lords],
Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.
Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 7, after the word "Scotland," insert to extend the application of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, to lands and heritages in which no persons...
Lords Amendment: In page 2, line 12, leave out "within", and insert "exerciseable in respect of".
Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 26, at end, insert (3) Where in the constitution of any trust or other body, whether corporate or not, provision is made for the appointment as trustees or...
Lords Amendment: In page 10, line 38, at the end, insert (e) Any officer who was the chief constable of a small burgh immediately before the commencement of this Act may decline to become an...
Lords Amendment: In page 13, line 31, at the end, insert: (8) Any reference in any Act to the whole number of a county council shall as regards any matter be construed as a reference to the whole...
Lords Amendment: In page 18, line 30, after the word "transferred," insert: then unless the transferee authorities, with the approval of the General Board of Control for Scotland, otherwise agree...
Lords Amendment: In page 22, line 4, after the word "charges," insert: or other regularly appointed places of worship.
Lords Amendment: In page 28, leave out from the word "allowances," in line 8, to the word "in," in line 10, and insert: at rates not exceeding those set out in…schedule to this Act.
Lords Amendment: In page 33, line 34, after the word "therefor," insert: "within fifteen years from the commencement of this Act either."
Lords Amendment: In page 43, line 13, leave out Sub-section (1) and insert: (1) On a vacancy arising after the commencement of this Act in the office of medical officer of health or sanitary...
Lords Amendment: In page 43, line 41, leave out "and" and insert "or."
(1) For the purposes of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, lands and heritages shall not be deemed not to be occupied and used as a factory or workshop by reason only of the fact...
Lords Amendment: In page 47, line 27, leave out from the word "entitled" in line 27 to the word "to" in line 28, and insert: on the fifteenth day of May in each year.
Lords Amendment: In page 49, line 36, at the end, insert: (4) For the purpose of any apportionment of expenses between rating authorities according to the valuation roll for the year beginning on...
Lords Amendment: In page 50, leave out from the word "purposes" in line I, to the end of paragraph (i), and insert: both of the owner's and of the occupier's share of rates, ninety-two per cent.
Lords Amendment: In page 54, line 11, at the end, insert: The provisions of this paragraph shall come into operation on the passing of this Act.
"(1) The General Exchequer Contributions shall be apportioned amongst the several counties and large burghs in manner hereinafter following, that is to say:— (a) during the first four fixed...
Lords Amendment: In page 68, line 15, leave out Clause 71, and insert:
"(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided this Part of this Act shall come into operation on the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and as respects the year beginning on the...
Lords Amendment: In page 74, line 10, at the end, insert: (4.) The Explosives Acts, 1875 to 1928.
Lords Amendment:
Order for Second Reading read.
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Sir G. Hennessy.]
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