§ BUSINESS CARRIED ON BY INDIVIDUAL PHARMACIST OR BY PARTNERS
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerThe next Amendment selected is Government Amendment No. 72, with which we may discuss Government Amendments Nos. 73, 74 and 75.
§ Mr. SnowI beg to move Amendment No. 72, in page 53, line 19, at beginning insert 'Subject to the next following subsection'.
I hope that the House will allow me to give a small verbal picture of what is behind the Amendment rather than reading out the strict interpretation and enumerating the paragraphs.
My right hon. Friend undertook, in Committee, to make certain Amendments in response to an appeal by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Mr. Ogden) on the question of the certificates to be shown in premises or pharmacies. As the Bill was then drafted, it could have resulted in a multiplicity of certificates of authority being placed in any pharmacy which was operated by one pharmacist. We have endeavoured by the Amendments to satisfy my hon. Friend so as to provide for a certificate or certificates to be shown only in so far as the partner or partners exercise personal control at the premises in question.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: No. 73, in page 53, line 28, leave out from 'person' to 'carrying' in line 29.
§ No. 74, in line 31, leave out from 'registration' to 'or' in line 33.
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No. 75, in line 35, at end insert:
(2) In relation to a business carried on by a partnership the preceding subsection shall have effect as if—