HL Deb 22 November 1954 vol 189 cc1734-5

Clause 29, page 25, line 25, at end insert— ("Provided that subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to the interpretation of section fourteen of the principal Act")

VISCOUNT WOOLTON

My Lords, the effect of this Amendment is to preclude the possibility that registration might be extended by order to businesses in which sales do not take place. There are various types of business in which, although food is supplied and money given in payment, the transaction may not be a sale in law—for example, in a hospital. It is intended that regulations should apply to such businesses, but it is not intended to apply registration, even though registration may be applied to businesses of a similar class in which genuine sales do take place. For example, we should not wish hospitals supplying ice cream to patients, or making their own sausages, to be registered under Section 14 of the 1938 Act. I beg to move that the 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.