MR. DUNDAS WHITE (Dumbartonshire)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if it has been decided whether the compound generally known as nut butter, when prepared entirely from nuts, of a brown colour, and free from any trace of animal fat, comes within the definition of margarine in Section 13 of the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907; and whether the Board will 1460 consider the advisability of introducing an amending Bill to remove doubts and to enable this vegetable compound to be sold as nuttine or under some similar name which does not convey the misleading suggestion that it is made up of animal fat.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Any decision as to the interpretation of the section to which my hon. friend refers rests with the Courts and not with the Board. We do not consider that any Amendment of the Act in the direction suggested is called for.