§ Clause 74, page 54, leave out from beginning of line 42 to end of line 2 on page 55.
§ LORD BRECONMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with Commons Amendment No. 33. This clause enables local authorities to make by-laws for controlling pleasure fairs and roller skating rinks, and such matters as hours of opening, safety, and the preservation of sanitary conditions. In Committee, Lord Burden proposed the deletion of paragraph (d). Though he did not press his Amendment, he felt constrained to utter a word of warning about the dangers of exemption. This matter was also raised in another place, where it was urged that there was just as good a case for protecting the public from danger, for example, at a fair held for charitable purposes, as there was at any other sort of fair. Views which have been expressed on this subject, including those of Lord Burden, have led the Government to reconsider the matter. There would be difficulties about applying the by-laws to fairs held by Royal Charter, or under licence, which are mentioned in paragraph () of subsection (4), or to fairs covered by by-laws made by any other authority; for example, such as a pier authority which is mentioned in paragraph (b); but the exemptions in paragraphs (c) and (d) are not easy to defend, and this Amendment will delete them. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Brecon.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.