HC Deb 16 March 1964 vol 691 c1115
Mr. Silkin

I beg to move, in page 22, line 41, to leave out deemed to be".

This drafting Amendment arises out of subsection (1), by which if a body corporate is proved to have committed an offence punishable under the Bill, and this offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of one of the officers of the company, he shall, in the original words …be deemed to be guilty of that offence". The hon. and gallant Gentleman in Standing Committee, when I maintained that these words were rather long, was kind enough to say that if we could get the same result by leaving out certain words he might be willing to accept an Amendment of this sort. I regard it as incontrovertible that the words shall be guilty of that offence are slightly shorter than the words: shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence".

Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett

The Government are grateful to the hon. Gentleman for having put down this this Amendment, and they are pleased to accept it.

Amendment agreed to.