§ (1) This Act may be cited as the Sale of Tea Act, 1922.
§ (2) This Act shall not apply to Ireland.
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Lords Amendment: At the end of the Clause insert a new Sub-section:
(3) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson)I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Amendment was inserted in another place because it was felt desirable to give a little more time to those engaged in the trade to make preparations for enabling the Order to be worked as it should be done under the Bill. There is also an administrative advantage, as the existing Order is up to the 31st August, and it is therefore convenient that the new Bill should come into operation on the 1st September.
§ Question put, and agreed to.