I beg to move Amendment No. 24, in page 12, line 4, after 'constituted', insert:

', which is made after the commencement of this Act.',

This amendment again is made necessary by the addition to the Bill of Clause 4, which gives proprietors the right to redeem existing feuduties. Apart from that, the Bill was concerned only with future feuduties. The purpose of Clause 17 is to prevent contracting out of the provisions of the Bill. This is apt and desirable in relation to the Bill as originally drafted, because the generality of these provisions relate to future feuduties, long leases, and so forth. It is not entirely apt, however, in the new context of Clause 4, and it is to make perfectly clear that this provision relates to arrangements made after the commencement of the Act that this small amendment, which is essentially drafting and consequential on the new Clause 4, is made.

Amendment agreed to.