§ Amendment made: In page 53, line 27, leave out "of the application", and insert "on which the applicant is registered."—[Mr. Cross.]
§ Mr. CrossI beg to move, in page 54, line 26, column 2, to leave out from the beginning, to "or," in line 39, and to insert: 1675
One two-thousandth of the total sum which has, in the preceding calendar year, become payable to the applicant or the person registered, as the case may be, by way of charges made by him, in the course of the business of finishing, to the persons with whom he has dealt in the course of such business.This and the following Amendments to the Fourth Schedule change the basis of the maximum amount which can be charged in respect of registration fees for the activities of finishing, making-up and packing. Where a finisher is processing his own goods, it is on the basis of the charges which would have been made if the goods had belonged to someone else. Difficulty arose in connection with making these calculations on a wages basis, in the case of firms engaged in making products other than those covered by the Bill. For instance, in the case of a Northern Irish firm it might occur that the same man was paid wages in respect of both cotton and linen and a similar case could occur in connection with making-up and packing. No such difficulty occurs in ascertaining the amount of business done and the calculation, we suggest, should therefore be made upon that basis instead of on a wages basis. The Joint Committee agreed to the Amendment and the rate which appears in the Amendment was suggested after consulting the various interests.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made:
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In page 54, line 42, column 2, leave out from the beginning to "or," in line 9, page 55, and insert:
One two-thousandth of the total sum which has, in the preceding calendar year, become payable to the applicant or the person registered, as the case may be, by way of charges made by him, in the course of the business of making-up and packing, to persons with whom he has dealt in the course of such business.
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In page 55, line 11,at the end, insert:
If in any calendar year a person has, in the course of business carried on by him by way of finishing, done anything to products being his own property, there shall, for the purposes of this Schedule, be deemed to have become payable to him in that year, by way of charges for the doing of that thing, such sum as might reasonably be expected to have become so payable if it had been done by him to products being the property of some other person."—[Mr. Cross.]