HL Deb 22 November 1954 vol 189 c1733

After Clause 25, insert, the following new clause:

Miscellaneous provisions relating to Board of Trade and their regulations

(".—(1) Anything required or authorised by or under this Act to be done by, to or before the Board of Trade may be done by, to or before the President of the Board, any Minister of State with duties concerning the affairs of the Board, any Secretary, Under-Secretary, or Assistant Secretary of the Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the President.

In this subsection the expression "Minister of State" means such a Minister of the Crown as is referred to in section two of the Re-Election of Ministers Act, 1919, as explained by the House of Commons Disqualification (Declaration of Law) Act, 1935.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (3) of section sixty-five of the principal Act (which relates to the taking of proceedings by county councils and local authorities), no council other than a local authority for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 to 1936, shall institute proceedings for an offence against regulations made by the Board of Trade under section five of this Act.

(3) Section seventy-seven of the principal Act (which relates to powers of entry) and section twenty of this Act shall not apply in relation to the enforcement of regulations made by the Board of Trade under the said section five, but section ten of the. Sale of Food (Weights and Measures) Act, 1926 (which confers special powers of entry and inspection on inspectors of weights and measures), shall apply as if the references therein to the said Act of 1926 and to its requirements included references respectively to regulations so made as aforesaid and to the requirements of such regulations.")

VISCOUNT WOOLTON

My Lords, this Amendment is really consequential on the Amendments by which the Board of Trade are empowered to regulate the labelling of food as regards weight, measure or number. I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Viscount Woolton.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.