HC Deb 29 June 1920 vol 131 c349

If the undertakers fail to comply with any lawful prescription of the gas referees, or to provide or maintain any testing place, apparatus or materials, or any other matter or thing prescribed therein, or to afford to the gas examiner or gas referees access to any testing place or works in accordance with the requirements of this Act, or to afford or furnish any facilities or information in accordance with the requirements of this Act, the undertakers shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £25, or in the case of a continuing offence £25 for each day during which such offence continues:

Mr. BRIDGEMAN

I beg to move after the word "day" to insert the words "after such conviction."

In Committee upstairs I undertook to consider this point further, and I find that there is precedent in the Bill in reference to the post office and telegraph lines for making the penalty run from the date of conviction rather than from the time the offence was first detected. I think it a good precedent and one which we should follow.

Amendment agreed to.