§ MR. BARNARD (Kidderminster)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any difference is made in calculating the compensation under the 1904 Licensing Act, between ante-1869 beerhouses and fully-licensed houses, on account of the position occupied by the 1869 houses prior to the passing of the 1904 Act; and, if so, how is it arrived at.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I understand that, in pursuance of the provisions of Section 2 (1) of the Licensing Act of 1904, as interpreted in the judgment of Kennedy J. in re Ashby's Cobham Brewery Company, the answer 1552 to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative, and that the method of calculating the difference may take the form of allowing a higher number of years in the case of "ante–69" beerhouses for the purpose of capitalisation. The precise details of any such calculation depend on the circumstances of every case.