Clause 7 - Theft, loss etc. of certificate or summary
Licensing Bill [Lords]
6:00 pm
Mr Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster, Conservative)
It occurred to me during the course of that exchange—perhaps my hon. Friend has some thoughts on the matter—that the danger of going down such a route is the fact that the first thing that any licensee would do is copy the certificate several times over. Those copies might be liable to theft, but the licensee would look after his interests by having various copies of the licence around that he could brandish in front of anyone from a local authority who might want to inspect it. That would defeat the very object that the Minister presumably has in mind.