HC Deb 30 July 1951 vol 491 cc1092-3

Lords Amendment: In page 35, line 45, at end, insert: and, in relation to a business or practice carried on by a partnership firm or by a company, references in those provisions to the proprietor of the business or practice include references to a person being one of two such partners in the firm or, as the case may be, being one of two persons each holding such shares in the company, and references to the working proprietor of the business or practice shall be construed accordingly.

The Solicitor-General

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

This is consequential upon the Amendments made in the House at an earlier stage when the qualification of proprietor referred to in the Clause in the case of a partnership and of a company was reduced from a 75 per cent. interest to a 50 per cent. interest. The result of that reduction is that it would be now possible for two persons to answer to the description of proprietor. The purpose of this Amendment is to remove any doubt whether it would be possible for either of those persons to be regarded as the proprietor. Either of two persons with 50 per cent. share can be regarded as the proprietor.

Question put, and agreed to.