COMMONS AMENDMENT (Hansard, 27 July 1949)

§ LORD LUCAS OF CHILWORTH

My Lords, in the Bill as originally drafted the power of a Government Department. under subsection (1) of Clause 19 was confined to the right to apply for endorsement of the patent" licences of right." When the Bill was in Committee of your Lordships' House, it was thought desirable to give Government Departments power to apply also for a licence to be grafted to a manufacturer specified by them, this being, in certain cases, a more appropriate remedy than endorsement. Noble Lords will remember that we discussed whether Clause 16 should be enlarged to include this provision or whether it should be inserted in Clause 19. We decided eventually to put it into Clause 19, but it was made clear at the time that the same considerations would apply to the application of Government Departments under Clause 19 as would apply to a private individual who applied under Clause 16. This is to make it crystal clear, without any shadow of doubt, that our intention is incorporated in the Bill. I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.