§ Clause 18, page 18, line 7, after ("shall") insert ("unless he decides not to have an analysis made").
§ VISCOUNT WOOLTONMy Lords, the subsection in which this Amendment appears requires a sampling officer who has procured for analysis a sample of a pre-packed food or drug bearing on the wrapper the name and address of the manufacturer to notify the manufacturer that he has taken the sample. This is to enable the manufacturer to arrange to have the trader's sample analysed if he wishes to do so. If, however, the sampling officer decides not to proceed with the analysis there is no point in notifying the manufacturer. The noble Lord, Lord Waleran, raised this point when we were discussing the Bill in this House before. Indeed, if the manufacturer were notified in such a case he might be put to quite unnecessary expense in having an analysis made. Accordingly, this 1727 Amendment provides that notification need not be given if the sampling officer decides not to proceed with the analysis. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Viscount Woolton.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.