THE BOARD AND THE MEDIA

HC Deb 22 October 1975 vol 898 c622

Lords Amendment: No. 24, in page 8, line 31, leave out from "State" to end of line 37 and insert: may direct that the Board or a subsidiary of the Board shall not be under any duty imposed by subsection (5) or (6) above during such time as the direction is in force.

Mr. Kaufman

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

Mr. Speaker

With this amendment we are to take Lords Amendment No. 25.

Mr. Kaufman

Amendment No. 25 is a straightforward Government drafting amendment.

Amendment No. 24, which is a Government amendment, has two purposes. First, it makes the drafting of the rather complicated clause on the media a little more concise by avoiding repetition. The second objective of the amendment is to make it clearer—although it was already implicit in the clause as drafted—that directions given by the Secretary of State to allow the Board or its subsidiaries to retain media interests in certain circumstances are not intended to be permanent.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendment agreed to.