HL Deb 27 July 1967 vol 285 c1203

[No. 79]

After Clause 28, insert the following new clause—

Extension of section 24 to spouses and children

(".—(1) Section 24 of this Act shall apply to—

  1. (a) the wife or husband of a director of a company, not being herself or himself a director of that company; and
  2. (b) an infant son or infant daughter of a director of a company, not being himself a director of that company;
as it applies to the director; but it shall be a defence for a person charged, by virtue of this subsection, with an offence under that section, to prove that he had no reason to believe that his spouse or, as the case may be, parent, was a director of the company in question.

(2) In this section, 'son' includes step-son and adopted son, 'daughter' includes stepdaughter and adopted daughter and 'parent' shall be construed accordingly, 'infant' means in relation to Scotland, pupil or minor, and a person deemed for the purposes of the said section 24 to be a director of a company shall be deemed also for the purposes of this section to be a director of the company.")

LORD HUGHES

My Lords, this is Amendment No. 79. 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.—(Lord Hughes.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.