Clause 11.—(VARIATION AND REVOCA- TION OF CONDITIONS OF, AND SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF, LICENCES.) (Hansard, 6 July 1966)

§ Mrs. Shirley Williams

I beg to move Amendment No. 3, in page 12, line 32, to leave out from "that" to "of" in line 33 and to insert: there has been a serious or persistent failure on the part of the holder of the licence to comply with one or more of the conditions". This Amendment meets a point which was made by the Opposition side in Committee, and which, I think, raised no differing opinion on the Government side. It is to change the definition of failure on the part of a holder of a licence to comply with the conditions of the licence. Instead of saying, as the Clause does, failure to comply with any condition we propose that it should be serious or persistent failure on the part of the holder of the licence to comply with one or more of the conditions for which the penalty would be revocation of the licence. It would also cater for minor breaches of the licence, but we feel that revocation of licence should take place only for serious breaches, and that for minor breaches there should be equivalently minor penalties.