HC Deb 16 December 1927 vol 211 c2697

Lords Amendment: In page 8, line 15, at the end, insert new Sub-section: (5) Where a renter has in any such year acquired any registered films and subsequently in the same year his business as a renter by assignment or will or on intestacy or by operation of law, becomes vested in some other licensed renter, that other renter and not the first-mentioned renter shall for the purposes of the provisions of this Part of this Act as to the renters' quota be deemed to have acquired the films.

Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER

I beg to move "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This Amendment makes plain what I think we all assumed to be the law in this case. If a renter succeeds in the course of a year to the business of another renter he carries the quota rights as well as the quota liabilities of the man to whose business he succeeds. I was advised that the law was not quite clear without the insertion of this Amendment.

Question put, and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments, to page 16, line 31, agreed to.