§ Major BARNETTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a responsible body of traders in the Metropolitan borough of St. Pancras has intimated its desire to form a local chamber of commerce as an association, not for profit and limited by guarantee, and that the Board of Trade has declined -to grant its licence for the registration of such an association as a company with limited liability without the addition of the word limited to its name; and, if so, whether he will reconsider the granting of such licence, in view of the expressed wishes of this commercial and manufacturing centre and the distinctive character of the industries which a St. Pancras chamber of commerce would represent?
§ Sir A. GEDDESI am aware of the facts stated in the question of my hon. and gallant Friend. The application for a licence to register the St. Pancras Chamber of Commerce without the word1158W "Limited" received careful consideration, but it was decided that the objects of an association of this kind which are confined to trade interests in a limited area, do not come within the provisions of Section 20 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908. There is no objection to the Association being registered as a company limited by guarantee with the addition of the word "Limited."