§ Clause 12, page 13, line 7, leave out ("No person shall") and insert ("A person shall not knowingly act as agent for a person under eighteen in the purchase of exciseable liquor, nor shall any person").
§ Clause 12, page 13,Line 23, at end insert ("and nothing in subsection (3) of this section shall prohibit the acting by any person as agent for a person who has attained the age of sixteen in the purchase of beer, porter, cider or perry for consumption as aforesaid").
§ LORD CRAIGTONMy Lords, under the Bill as it stands there would be no offence if an under-eighteen wanting a drink gave the money to an over-eighteen to buy it. The first Amendment closes that loophole, and the second introduces the necessary and consequential saving for over-sixteens, who may buy beer et cetera with a meal. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Craigton.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.