HC Deb 15 June 1956 vol 554 cc917-8

Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 5, leave out lines 34 to 40.

Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 2, leave out from "the" to "cost" in line 3 and insert "reasonable".

Mr. Mulley

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

The purpose is to clarify the wording of the Bill and to remove doubt as to what the word "reasonable" may mean.

Mr. J. C. Forman

I beg to second the Motion.

Question put and agreed to.

Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 23, leave out from the beginning to "shall" and insert: (5) Except as provided by the last foregoing subsection, the conditions specified in subsection (1) of this section".

Mr. Mulley

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

The purpose of the Amendment, together with the next one, is to improve the wording of an Amendment that this House agreed to on Report. As the House knows, the Clause permits a prize of £20 for a whist drive. The purpose of the Amendment is to provide that for a whist tournament the prize can be £100. The intention is to put in rather better words now what we intended to say on Report.

Mr. Forman

I beg to second the Motion.

Question put and agreed to.

Further Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 6, line 27, at end insert and where each of the persons taking part in the games played at the final entertainment of such a series is qualified to do so by reason of having taken part in the games played at another entertainment of that series held on a previous day (being an entertainment to which this section applies) paragraph (b) of the said subsection (1) shall apply in relation to that final entertainment as if for the words `twenty pounds' there were substituted the words `one hundred pounds'.