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Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 21, leave out
during the hours of late opening".
§ 12.3 a.m.
§ The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. C. M. Woodhouse)I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This Amendment was moved in Committee in the House of Lords by the noble Lady, Baroness Summerskill, and accepted on behalf of the Government as an improvement to the Bill and one which would strengthen the hands of the police.
Its effect is that instead of being limited to the period from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. during which a refreshment house is open by virtue of its licence, the prohibition on touting in cases where it is applied by the local authority will operate at all hours of the day.
§ Question put and agreed to.