ENACTMENTS AMENDED (Hansard, 18 July 1973)

§ Mr. Emery
I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
669 There is some confusion over the printing of the amendment. It is on page 15 of the amendment paper. It has no number. That is why we have identified it as No. 69A. The initial page and line reference is missing. The amendment is consequential on the amendments to Clause 102, Lords Amendments Nos. 35 and 36.

§ Mr. Deputy Speaker
Let us be clear which amendment we are discussing. Lords Amendment No. 69A, on my copy of the paper, begins in section 22, after subsection (4)".

§ Mr. Emery
That is what I hope I am moving. It is that in section 22, after subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following subsection:— '(5) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply in relation to any order made under section 21A of this Act'. There can be no doubt about that. As I said, it is on page 15 of the Lords amendments.
It is appropriate that at this stage I should pay tribute to the immense amount of work which has been done by the officials in the preparation of the Bill. All hon. Members will want, although it is not always done, to pay tribute to the outstanding work they have done. Because of the intimacy in which the media have brought all of us together at certain times during the proceedings on the Bill, the work done by the officials has become more than evident.
The House has agreed to Lords Amendments Nos. 35 and 36 which prescribe the procedure by which the Restrictive Practices Court may discharge or vary an interim order. In Section 22 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act there is already provision for the court to vary other decisions. It is desirable to make it clear that these provisions do not apply to interim orders. Separate provision is made for them in the new subsection which is to be inserted in the 1956 Act by Amendment No. 35. The amendment accordingly adds a new subsection to Section 22 of the 1956 Act to make it absolutely clear that the provisions of that section do not apply to interim orders under the new Section 21A.

§ Mr. Robert Hughes (Aberdeen, North)
I wish to associate this side of the House with the Under-Secretary's remarks. I join 670 him in congratulating the officials who have done so much work in preparing the Bill and incorporating within the final form of the Bill so many of the points that were made in Committee. I await agog, as do many other hon. Members, to see the television programme on Tuesday night. [Interruption.] We will watch all three programmes with the greatest of interest to see whether these prima donnas of the private office are as genial in their own lair as they are when operating in our spheres.

§ Sir G. Howe
I am not sure whether I need the leave of House, but I ask for it in any event.
I beg to move that this House doth agree with Granada Television in the said television programme. The programme to which the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Robert Hughes) refers will be transmitted at 22.30 hours on Monday. It has been promoted to being the first of the three and is appropriately entitled "The State of the Nation"-which nation I am not sure.
I join my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary in paying tribute to those who have taken part in the work on the Bill. I wish to pay tribute in particular to the part played by the hon. Members for Swansea, West (Mr. Alan Williams) and for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan) and all their colleagues and by my hon. Friends who have shown such a tenacious and sustained enthusiasm, even to this late hour. I am sure we shall all get joint top billing for the programme on Monday.