HC Deb 25 February 1964 vol 690 cc331-2
Mr. Scott-Hopkins

I beg to move, in page 10, line 32, to leave out from "produce" to the end of line 34 and to insert: means—

  1. (a) fresh fruit, dried fruit, frozen fruit and fruit preserved in airtight containers;
  2. (b) fresh vegetables, dried vegetables, frozen vegetables and vegetables preserved in airtight containers;
  3. (c) fresh herbs and dried herbs;
  4. (d) fresh edible fungi, dried edible fungi and edible fungi preserved in airtight containers;
  5. (e) nuts;
  6. (f) cut flowers;
  7. (g) dried flowers;
  8. (h) decorative foliage;
  9. (i) Christmas trees;
  10. (I) pot plants, bedding plants and herbaceous plants;
  11. k) shrubs and flowering trees;
  12. (l) fruit trees, fruit bushes and fruit plants; and
  13. (m) seeds, bulbs, corms, tubers and seed potatoes".
The Amendment is in pursuance of an undertaking I gave in Committee when my hon. Friend the Member for King's Lynn (Mr. Bullard) put forward an Amendment adding fruit trees, fruit bushes and fruit plants to the defini- tion of horticultural produce in the Covent Garden Market Act, 1961. This was a definition which we had borrowed for the purposes of Clause 9. As I understand it, there were technical difficulties involved in amending the Covent Garden Market Act which before it was enacted was a hybrid Bill. I promised to introduce an Amendment at a later stage which would have the same effect of making it abundantly clear that fruit trees, fruit bushes and fruit plants were to be regarded as horticultural produce for the purposes of this Clause. This is the sole purpose of this rather long Amendment.

Mr. Bullard

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for this alteration of the definition in the Bill.

Amendment agreed to.