§ 3.33 p.m.
§ The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. J. Nixon Browne)I beg to move, in page 2, line 17, at the end to insert:
and did not himself make, or cause to be made, any material alteration in the substance of that advertisement.Mr. Speaker, with your approval and for the convenience of the House, perhaps we could take together this Amendment and the following one to Clause 6, page 6, line 6.The hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison) asked that it should be made quite clear that anyone in the publishing or advertising business who helped to prepare an illegal advertisement could not plead, to use the words of the Bill, that
he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business.The added words give effect to the request of the hon. Lady in the two places in the Bill where we agree that grounds for defence should be narrowed in this way.
§ Amendment agreed to.