§ Amendments reported (according to order.)
LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTONMy Lords, there are additional Amendments in my name which I should like to say a few words upon. The Bill as reprinted is in accordance with the Amendments which were put before us by the Board of Trade. The Home Office, however, did not entirely approve of the Bill in that form and they made some Amendments thereon. The Amendments I now move are those which have been agreed to by the Home Office and the Board of Trade together, in conjunction with the Parliamentary draftsman.
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Amendments moved—
In Clause 3, page 2, line 15, to leave out the words "be deemed to; in line 18, to leave out the words 'if not so made shall be void and; in line 20, after the word system to insert the words 'and if any person makes or has any contract, bargain, sale, or dealing, or charges or collects any toll or duty contrary to the provisions of this section, he shall, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding 40s.'; in line 24, to leave out the words 'render void' and to insert the words 'apply to'; and in line 25, to leave out from the word 'Kingdom' to the word 'or' in line 28, and to insert the words 'or in respect of any subject-matter
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outside the United Kingdom, or of any goods to be imported into or exported from the United Kingdom, if made or had according to the system of weights and measures in force in the foreign country concerned."—(Lord Belhaven and Stenton.)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to. Bill to be read 3a To-morrow; and to be printed as amended. (No. 79.)
§ House adjourned at twenty-minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.