Orders of the Day — Succession (Scotland) Bill – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 19 Chwefror 1964.
Lady Grant of Monymusk
, Aberdeen South
12:00,
19 Chwefror 1964
I beg to move, in page 13, line 38, to leave out from "otherwise" to the first "the" in line 39.
The words proposed to be left out by the Amendment are a forward reference to Clause 35(2). I ought to say that that is a subsection which forms part of the interpretation of the term "estate" for the purposes of the Bill. This is being redrafted by Government Amendments which are to be moved to Clause 35, and the forward reference is, therefore, not correct. In any event, we have decided that the forward reference is no longer required.
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