INTERIM ORDERS OF RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES COURT

HC Deb 18 July 1973 vol 860 cc638-9

Lords Amendment: No. 35, in page 75, line 3, at end insert: ( ) At any time when any such interim order is in force, the Court, on the application of the Director or of any person who is subject to or entitled to the benefit of any restriction specified in the order, may discharge the order and substitute for it any interim order which could have been made on the original application under this section.

Mr. Emery

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords Amendment No. 36, in page 75, line 9, at end insert: ( ) the discharge of the order by the Court.

Mr. Emery

These amendments seek to remove any doubt that the Restrictive Practices Court will have power to discharge or vary its own interim orders. The effect will be that it will have power to do so on the application of the Director or—and this is the important part—of any interested party.

May I again pay tribute to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan), who moved a similar amendment in Committee. I then gave an undertaking that we would look at the point that had been made, which seemed to be substantial. I said that we could not accept the exact wording of that amendment but that if we felt that it was of substance we would move amendments in another place. These amendments fulfil that undertaking.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendment agreed to.