4. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, there are two or more tenants for life of full age entitled under the same settlement in undivided shares, and, after the cesser of all their interests in the income of the settled land, the entirety of the land is limited so as to devolve together (not in undivided shares), their interests shall, but without prejudice to any beneficial interest, be converted into a joint tenancy, and the joint tenants and the survivor of them shall until the said cesser occurs, constitute the tenant for life for the purposes of The Settled Land Act, 1925, and this Act'"; in page 8, line 14, at the end, by inserting the words :"S. 27 In sub-section (1), for the words 'in a daily London newspaper, and also if the property includes land not situated in London in a daily or weekly newspaper circulating in the district in which the land is situated' there shall be substituted the words 'in a newspaper circulating in the district in which the land is situated”; in page 8, after the last inserted Amendment, by inserting the words : "Land Charges In Class C (iii.), at the end, the following proviso shall be inserted : Act, 1925, 'Provided that a charge, given by way of indemnity, against rents equitably apportioned or charged exclusively on land in exoneration of other land and against the breach or non-observance of covenants or conditions, shall not be deemed to be a general equitable charge and shall not be registrable as a land charge under this Act'"-(Sir William Bull); and in page 8, after the last inserted Amendment, by inserting the words : Act, 1925, "Land Charges At the end of sub-section (1) the following paragraph shall be inserted :'For the purposes of this section any sum which is recoverable by a local authority under any of the Acts aforesaid from successive owners or occupiers of the property in respect of which the sum is recoverable shall, whether such sum is expressed to be a charge on the property or not, be deemed to be a charge.' At the end of paragraph (a) of subsection (6) there shall be inserted the words 'whether by reference to the estate owner or to the land affected or otherwise'; and paragraph (b) of the same sub-section shall be omitted. For sub-section (7) the following subsection shall be substituted : 'The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to (a) any town planning scheme made by or any authority or resolution to prepare or adopt a town planning scheme, given to or passed by, a local authority, whether made, given or passed before or after the commencement of this Act; and (b) any prohibition of or restriction on the user or mode of user of land or buildings imposed by a local authority after the commencement of this Act by order, instrument, or resolution, or enforceable by a local authority under any covenant or agreement made with them after the commencement of this Act, or by virtue of any conditions attached to a consent, approval, or licence granted by a local authority after that date, being a prohibition or restriction binding on successive owners of the land or buildings, and not being (i) a prohibition or restriction operating over the whole of the district of the authority or over the whole of any contributory place thereof; or (ii) a prohibition or restriction which is, or which may become, enforceable by virtue of a town planning scheme; or (iii) a prohibition or restriction imposed by a covenant or agreement made between a lessor and lessee, as if the scheme, resolution, authority, prohibition, or restriction were a local land charge, and the same shall be registered by the proper officer as a local land charge accordingly" -(Mr. Solicitor-General). Schedule, as amended, agreed to. Ordered: To Report the Bill, as amended, to the House. Printed under the authority of HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE FROM STANDING COMMITTEE C ON THE Lead Paint (Protection against Poisoning) Bill WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: YORK STREET, MANCHESTER; 1, ST. ANDREW'S CRESCENT, CARDIFF ; 121 or 120, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH; 1926. Price 2d. Net, |