Clause 65 - Industrial and provident societies, friendly societies etc.
Licensing Bill [Lords]
3:45 pm
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham, Conservative)
While the Minister consults the hon. Member for Battersea (Martin Linton), perhaps he will enlighten the Committee on how many of those 22,000 licensed clubs registered under the 1964 Act are industrial and provident societies and friendly societies. Would he be happy if some of the large friendly societies, which are large commercial operations, were to open a chain of clubs across the country to meet their members' needs? Further to that, will he define who the secretary of one of those organisations would be? The secretary crops up as an important person in, for example, supplying licensing authorities with notices.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 65 ordered to stand part of the Bill.