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Lords Amendment: No. 41, in page 86, line 43, at end insert—
(4A) In section 9 of the Act of 1968 any references to particulars entered or filed in the register pursuant to Part I of the Act of 1956 shall be construed as including a reference to particulars so entered or filed pursuant to any provisions of Part I of the Act of 1956 as applied by subsection (1) of this section.
§ Mr. EmeryI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
This amendment corrects an omission. Clause 112 deals with the application of the provisions of the Restrictive Trade Practices Acts, 1956 and 1968, to the service agreements which will in future be brought within the scope of the legislation under Part X of the Bill.
It was suggested at an earlier stage by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Craig-ton (Mr. Millan) that the clause could be considered to be defective in that it did not go far enough in applying the provisions of the earlier legislation. In particular, it was suggested by the hon. Member that it would not enable the useful procedures in Section 9 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1968 to be used for agreements registered under these new provisions.
We are not absolutely certain that the hon. Member is completely right, but in order to ensure that nothing should go wrong we felt that it would be desirable to make this amendment to cover completely the points that he had made.
§ Mr. MillanI thank the Minister for moving the amendment. I would thank 641 him even more warmly if I could remember having raised this point in Committee. Obviously, I did raise it, and clearly it was an even better point than I thought at the time. I am glad that the matter has been put right.
§ Question put and agreed to.