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carried by the official majority because in the opinion
of the Attorney-General it rendered nugatory the clause
already passed was in principle re-opened in the final
debate on an additional clause proposed by the mover of
this amendment, and words were inserted which were assented
to by Un-official Members while fully preserving the
principle for which the Government had contended. The
third division found no one beyond its mover and seconder
to support it, and on the fourth a question of legal
procedure raised by Mr. Pollock Sir Henry S. Berkeley,
K.C., voted with the Government (see paragraph 9 below).
8.
The most important amendments
effected by Sections 51 and 52 are in Sub-sections 2 of
Sections 179 and 180 of the Principal Ordinance.
The strict interpretation of the
provision that open spaces in the rear or at the side of
domestic buildings must belong exclusively to the build-
-ings, has in the past created some hardship and has given
rise to dissatisfaction. The amendments provide that a
certain portion of the area of private lanes (whether
subject to rights of way or not) may be included in the
calculation of open space.
The