§ MR. FAITHFULL BEGGI beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General, with regard to penalties upon companies for not holding annual meetings under the Act, whether lie is aware that the recovery of the penalty depends upon private initiative, inasmuch as the Department, as a matter of fact, does not take any effective steps, to enforce the law; and whether he will undertake that in any new legislation upon the subject, it shall be made obligatory upon the Department to enforce the penalty in such cases?
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir R. WEBSTER,) Isle of WightI believe that it is true that the Department does not, as a rule, initiate proceedings for the recovery of penalties under the section to which the honourable Member refers. The matter will, as I understand, in all probability, be dealt with by the Bill which is about to come down from the House of Lords.