§ (1) The Secretary of State shall so far as is practicable secure that resident tenant or manager of hotels and other licensed premises disposed of by the Secretary of State under sections 2 and 3 of the Act, shall have the opportunity, if the business previously carried on on the premises is continued by the person to whom it is disposed, of being employed in carrying it on on terms not less favourable than those appropriate to a manager so employed before disposal of the premises.
§ (2) In this section the expression 'resident tenant or manager' means a person who immediately before disposal by the Secretary of State was either the holder or one of joint holders of the tenancy or was employed as manager of the premises by the State Management authority.—[Mr. Ross.]
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§ Mr. SpeakerI suggest that with new Clause 2 we should discuss—