HC Deb 19 July 1974 vol 877 c864
The Under-Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)

I beg to move Amendment No. 1 in page 2, line 21, leave not from 'Act' to 'and' in line 23.

Mr. Speaker

With it we may also consider Government Amendment No. 2.

Mr Maclennan

These are purely drafting amendments. The clause as it stands was criticised in Committee because it was felt that it was not entirely clear that the Secretary of State could not give a specific direction to the director on a matter on which there was provision for appeal to the Secretary of State. These amendments should remove that uncertainty.

Amendment agreed to.

Further amendment made: No. 2, in page 2, line 39, at end insert: `(7) References in subsection (2) to the functions of the Director under this Act do not include the making of a determination to which section 41 or 151 (appeals from Director to Secretary of State) applies'.—[Mr. Maclennan.]

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