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The Attorney-General
I beg to move, in page 20, line 6, "after "taxed," to insert "or assessed."
This is really a drafting Amendment. There will be a number of cases in which the costs are very small and in which, consequently, it would be inappropriate to go to the expense and complication of having a formal taxation by a taxing officer. Consequently the Law Society must have power to make arrangements for ascertaining the cost in such a case without the formality of a taxation. An Amendment we have done to the Third Schedule provides what arrangements should be made, power being given to the Lord Chancellor to deal with the matter by regulation.Amendment agreed to.