HC Deb 04 May 1951 vol 487 c1517

11.16 a.m.

Mr. Lionel Heald (Chertsey)

I beg to move, in page 2, to leave out line 5, and to insert: (5) Subsection (1) of this section shall bind the Crown so as to prevent the Crown from bringing proceedings as a common informer and accordingly, the reference to a common informer in the proviso to that subsection shall include a reference to the Crown acting as a common informer. This is a clarifying Amendment directed to subsection (5) which states, very briefly: This section shall bind the Crown. It has been thought proper slightly to extend that language to explain just what it means. The language now used is slightly more complicated, but has precisely the same effect. It merely says that this section shall bind the Crown so as to prevent the Crown from bringing proceedings as a common informer and, accordingly, the reference to a common informer in the proviso to that subsection shall include a reference to the Crown acting as a common informer. I think it is clear that that in no way alters the intention of the Clause, but merely clarifies the position.

Mr. Hollis (Devizes)

I beg to second the Amendment.

Amendment agreed to.