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Clause 2, page 2, line 4, at end insert ("or
(d) that the applicant or the body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the intoxicating liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained.")
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Clause 4, page 3, line 27, at end insert ("or
(c) that the manager or the body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement of the kind mentioned in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section two of this Act.")
LORD LLOYDMy Lords, the object of these Amendments, which are consequential, is quite simple: it is that the Bill should provide against any of these canteens becoming, if I may express it in this way, tied houses— that is to say, that they have contracts with one particular brewery or supplier of intoxicating liquor for the whole of their supply. I am not raising the general question of tied houses, but I am sure we should all agree that it would be most undesirable that these canteens should enter into any such agreements or should became in any way tied houses. In point of fact, they are not commercial undertakings, they never have operated as tied houses, and I do not think there is any likelihood that they ever would. But, since the point was raised in another place, it was felt desirable that a specific provision should be put into the Bill to prevent such a thing happening. That is the reason why 694 this Amendment has been inserted. My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.
§ Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.— (Lord Lloyd.)
VISCOUNT ALEXANDER OF HILLS-BOROUGHI certainly agree, and on behalf of my colleagues I should like to say that we appreciate the consideration which has been given by the Government in this matter, and that these Amendments have been accepted. We think they will improve the Bill.
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.