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Lords Amendment No. 221: In page 226, line 8, at end insert:
( ) A licensing authority shall not give a direction under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph in respect of any licence unless he is satisfied that, owing to the frequency with which the holder of the licence has been guilty of offences, acts or omissions which are grounds for the giving of such a direction or to the facts of the particular case being for any other reason sufficiently serious, such a direction should be given.
§ Read a Second time.
§ Mr. SwinglerI beg to move, That this House cloth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
§ Mr. G. CampbellI am sorry to interrupt this agreeable acquiescence to the improvements which another place 1047 has made, but this is a particularly important Amendment with which trade and industry outside this House is much concerned. It was an Amendment which we had been pressing in this House when the Bill was passing through its earlier stages, but, unfortunately, the Guillotine meant that we were never able to give it proper justice, and we are glad to see the Government, in another place, did make this Amendment.
In the White Paper, The Transport of Freight, it was stated that the transport manager's licence would only be at risk in serious cases of mismanagement. This was not carried through into the Bill. We pressed this at the earlier stages, but the Government ignored it. We welcome the fact that again they have seen the light in the Lords and proposed this Amendment.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to. [Several with Special Entries.]