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Page 16, line 34, leave out subsection (3) and insert—
("(3) In the case of any contravention of this section as regards any licensed premises,
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the holder of the certificate in respect of those premises shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach of that certificate and shall be liable accordingly.")
§ LORD CRAIGTONMy Lords, this is a drafting correction, as the only offence possible under this clause is having the shop open for selling drink outside off-sales hours, and there can be no "other case" as in subsection 3 (b). I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment—(Lord Craigton.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ VISCOUNT ALEXANDER OF HILLSBOROUGHMy Lords, is it intended to go right through consideration of Commons' Amendments before we have the statement?
§ THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL AND MINISTER FOR SCIENCE (VISCOUNT HAILSHAM)My Lords, the only fair answer to that is that I do not know. I am waiting for my noble friend Lord Dundee, who is going to make the statement. He is not in this Chamber at the moment, and I can only assume that that is because we cannot be earlier than the other place in connection with the statement. I have not any news of the position in the other place.
§ LORD CRAIGTONMy Lords, I have only one more sentence to say; then everything else is formal.