Wednesday, 19 July 1967
The House met at Ten o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
10.5 a.m.
Bill to amend Section 123 of the Licensing Act 1964; and for related purposes; presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time Tomorrow and to be printed. [Bill 307.]
I understand that it is the wish of the Opposition to take the two Housing Subsidies Orders separately.
11.10 a.m.
Motion made, and Questiton proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr.Fitch.]
Lords Amendments considered and agreed to.
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what representations have been made to him by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions on the need to examine the increasing penetration...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what progress has been made in discussions with East European countries on the prices of imports into the United Kingdom of chipboard.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he intends to take to attract new industry to the Newbattle Industrial Estate following the closure of Lingerwood Colliery, Midlothian.
asked the President of the Board of Trade how far he took into account the anticipated contraction of coalmining in Midlothian before he announced plans for the latest advance factories in Scotland.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what discussions have taken place with the detergent manufacturers arising from the agreement concluded with them on a low price range of products; and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what talks have taken place with the Chairman of the Association of British Travel Agents following his request for further steps to be taken for the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) whether he is aware that world commodity agreements represent one of the most useful forms of aid to developing countries; and what he is doing to...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he takes to ensure that tobacco leaf imported from the United States of America has not in the course of production been subjected to noxious...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will consider making a further contribution to the economic and social prosperity of the Northern region by providing grant aid to the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what is being done to bring new employment to the Annfield Plain area of County Durham, where 300 to 400 miners may become redundant consequent upon...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what contracts have been gained recently, or are in course of negotiation, to supply British capital equipment to the Soviet motor car industry.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to limit the importation of excessive numbers of cheap Italian refrigerators and to encourage British manufacturers to reduce the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what proposals he has for reducing the rising trend of manufactured imports into the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what further steps he is taking to stop the decline in manufacturing investment in 1967, following the recent survey by his Department of the investment...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the proceedings of the recent conference of the Institute of Weights and Measures, details of which have been sent to him, and...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what estimates he has made of the effect of the present blockage of the Suez Canal to shipping on the import to this country of essential raw materials...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will estimate the benefit to the United Kingdom balance of payments of the Grand National at Aintree.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the value and number of applications for investment grants received from firms in Scotland to the latest available date.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a three-yearly running average of the level of private manufacturing investment in the United Kingdom for each period of three...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give an assurance, that in the negotiations for British entry into the European Economic Community, he will ensure that textiles from Common...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if, in view of the fact that the German Democratic Republic is now Great Britain's fourth largest export market in Eastern Europe, and in view of the...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what would be the estimated additional cost if investment allowances in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region were increased to half way between grants...
asked the President of the Board of Trade how many industrial development certificates were applied for, granted and refused in the Hull area of the Yorkshire and Humberside Region for each year...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, as a further measure of assistance to development areas, he will initiate legislation similar to that of the Industrial Advice and Enterprise...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what further consideration he has given to the recent merger of the Triplex Safety Glass Company Limited with British Indestructo Glass Limited which...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what decisions he has now reached about the re-equipment programme of British European Airways; and whether he will make a statement.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what are the reasons for the fall in the British share of air traffic on the North Atlantic route carried on scheduled services; and what action he...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what financial target he is proposing to set for the British Airports Authority.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement about the special review being carried out concerning the performance of United Kingdom air operators.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is satisfied with the licensing policy administered by the Air Transport Licensing Board; and if he will make a statement.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what financial target he is proposing to set for the British Overseas Airways Corporation.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what action he is taking to stimulate international air-traffic directly to and from Northern Ireland.
asked the President of the Board of Trade why he has increased the number of flying hours required for a private pilot's licence from 30 to 35.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what request he has received from the British Overseas Airways Corporation to be allowed to invest in the development of the American supersonic...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he is taking towards introducing the new limitations in the flying hours of pilots which he has already proposed.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will hold a full technical investigation into the cause of the aircraft crash at Stockport instead of a public inquiry.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what criteria and standards have been laid down in the granting of air licences to companies for chartered flights.
asked the President of the Board of Trade when he expects to consider the report on the Law Commission regarding British tourists stranded abroad while on charter flights; and if he will make a...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what progress is being made with enlarging the air terminal buildings at Aldergrove in County Antrim; and when he expects the work on the terminal to be...
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that civilian aircraft on charter to the Ministry of Defence have backward-facing seats as a safety precaution and if he will give general...
asked the President of the Board of Trade when he proposes to publish the Report of the Second Interdepartmental Committee on the third London airport.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a general direction to the British Overseas Airways Corporation not to publish advertisements containing sexual appeal.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to extend investment grants to firms leasing containers for ships to foreign shipping companies.
asked the President of the Board of Trade what information he has about the difficulties of British merchant shipping in refuelling on the Cape route; and what action he proposes to take to avoid...
asked the President of the Board of Trade what representations he has received concerning the establishment of a hovercraft service between Hull and Grimsby; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Edward M. Taylor: asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a further statement on the request for additional financial assistance to complete the Q4 contract which he has...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), further considered.
The maximum penalty that may be inflicted for frauds by officers of companies under section 330 of the principal Act committed after the passing of this Act shall, instead of being a term of...
(1) Where the share capital of a company includes a class of shares other than preference or preferred shares so described the holders of which are not entitled to vote at general meetings, the...
A company shall not be in default in complying with its statutory obligations relating to the keeping of registers and to the form and availability for inspection thereof solely by reason of the...
(1) The provisions of the principal Act and of the Stock Transfer Act 1963 concerning the registration of transfers of shares and debentures, the registers of members and debenture holders, the...
(1) Section 25 of this Act shall apply so Mat a director of a company shall be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) thereof who procures that his or her wife husband infant son or infant...
(1) For the purposes of section (Obligation of a director of a company to notify it of interests of his in shares in, or debentures of, the company or associated companies) of this Act an...
(1) No local authority or body corporate or unincorporated association shall discriminate in the placing of business or of contracts against any corporate body on the ground that such body has or...
Schedule 2 to the Companies (Floating Charges) (Scotland) Act, 1961 shall be amended by adding to section 106A(9) the words and in the event of the charge being used as security for such further...
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In Mr. Speaker's selection of Amendments for last week, Amendment No. 1 was taken with a group debated last week, but it was marked with an asterisk so...
I beg to move Amendment No. 144, in page 2, line 33, Clause 3, to leave out paragraph (b) and to insert: (b) if it be incorporated in Great Britain and it be registered in England and the company...
Amendments made: No. 147, in page 4, line 7, leave out from 'meeting' to end of line 9 and insert:
I beg to move Amendment No. 4, in page 5, line 33, after 'name', insert 'if known to them'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 152, in page 6, line 3, to leave out 'be shown'. I think that it would be convenient to consider with it the following Amendments: No. 153, and the two Amendments...
Amendment made: No. 159, in page 7, line 32, leave out 'and (5)' and insert '(5) and (5A)'.
Amendments made: No. 160, in page 8, line 20, after 'subsidiaries)', insert 'and'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 28, in page 11, line 4, after 'made' to insert: 'within twelve months of the passage of this Act'. The purpose of the Amendment is to urge the Government to get a move...
I beg to move, Amendment No. 161, in page 12, line 6, to leave out 'section 161(2)(b)' and to insert: 'subsection (2)(b) or (3) of section 161'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 165, in page 14, line 31, to leave out 'sections 16, 17 and 19 to 24 of this Act' and to insert: 'the nine next following sections'. This and consequential Amendments...
Amendment made: No. 166, in page 16, line 38, leave out 'except section 18'.—[Mr. Jay.]
Amendments made: No. 168, in page 17, line 11, after 'company (', insert: 'being one subject to the requirements of paragraph 13A of Schedule 8 to the principal Act but'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 34, in page 18, line 13, to leave out Clause 18.
I beg to move Amendment No. 45, in page 20, line 19, to leave out 'exclusively' and to insert 'mainly'. I think that it would save time, Mr. Speaker, if we considered at the same time Amendment...
Amendments made: No. 172, in page 20, line 24, after 'company' to insert 'subject to the requirements of paragraph 13A of Schedule 8 to the principal Act'.
Amendment made: No. 178, in page 21, line 12 leave out: 'Sections 16, 17, 19 and 20 of this Act shall not' and insert: 'None of sections 16 to 20 (both inclusive) of this Act shall'.—[Mr....
Amendment made: No. 179, in page 21, line 27 leave out '(except section 18)'.—[Mr. Darling.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 53, in page 22, to leave out line 12 and to insert: (1) Any profit realised by any director of a company within one year from the date of purchase by him of any of the...
I beg to move Amendment No. 186, in page 23, line 25, at the end to insert: 'provided that that is situate in England, in a case in which the company is registered in England and in Scotland, in...
I beg to move Amendment No. 189, in page 24, line 7 at the end to insert, 'and to any exceptions for which provision may be made by regulations made by the Board of Trade by statutory...
We now come to Amendment No. 73, and it has been suggested that it would be for the convenience of the House if, with it, we took the following Amendments:
Amendment made: No. 200, in page 32, line 35, leave out 'seven' and insert 'fourteen'.—[Mr. Darling.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 79, in page 33, line 18, after '27' to insert: 'or the next following section'. To some extent, this is a probing Amendment, although I always like to hope that some...
I beg to move Amendment No. 201, in page 36, line 40, to leave out paragraph (e) and to insert: (e) any such interests, or interests of such class as may be prescribed for the purposes of this...
Amendments made: No. 209, in page 39, line 1, leave out from 'that' to `in' in line 3 and insert: 'the entries therein against the several names inscribed therein appear'.
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I beg to move Amendment No. 103, in page 41, line 34, after 'words' to insert: '" wilfully defaces any book or document which it is his duty, under this section so to produce or' The right hon....
I beg to move Amendment No. 216, in page 42, line 23, after 'bodies', to insert 'corporate'. I will not tell the House the rude words used in Committee by hon. Members opposite about the words...
I beg to move, Amendment 104, in page 44, line 22, at the beginning to insert: 'Without prejudice to the next following subsection'.
I beg to move, Amendment No. 107, in page 45, line 3, to leave out from the beginning to 'may'. This Amendment also, to a certain extent, was touched on in our deliberations in the Standing...
I beg to move Amendment No. 108, in page 47, line 24, after 'company', to insert 'and not withdrawn'. In this Clause we deal with a situation in which the Board of Trade issues a direction...
Amendment made: No. 220, in page 48, line 22, leave out Clause 48.—[Mr. Jay.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 221, in page 50, line 9, at the beginning to insert: (1) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section 63 of the principal Act, no company need forward to the...
Amendments made: No. 222, in page 51, line 19, leave out '17 (both inclusive), 19 to 23 (both inclusive)' and insert '23 (both inclusive), 35, 37, 41'.
Mr. Gresham Cooke: I beg to move Amendment No. 110, in page 52, line 37, at the end to insert (5) References in this Part of this Act to a company which carries on business outside the United...
I beg to move Amendment No. 225, in page 53, line 7, to leave out from the beginning to '43' and to insert: `sections 25 to 34 (both inclusive)'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 227, in page 53, line 26, to leave out 'life assurance business'. With this Amendment Amendments Nos. 228, 229, 231, 237, 239 and 302 are associated.
I beg to move Amendment No. 111, in page 57, line 4, after 'subsections', to insert: 'and without any relevant authorisation under section 61 of this Act'.
Amendment made:Amendment No. 232, in' page 58, line 4, leave out 'insurance' and insert 'assurance'.—[Mr. Darling.]
Mr. Shaw: I beg to move, Amendment 112, in page 59, line 2, to leave out 'and'.
I beg to move Amendment 233, in page 59, line 43, after 'directions', to insert 'or instructions'. Amendment 255, in Clause 88, is similar, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I wonder whether we may...
I beg to move, Amendment No. 234, in page 61, line 21, to leave out 'of Trade'. I sincerely hope that the hon. Gentleman is going to accept this one, because it is only a drafting Amendment.
Amendment made: No. 237, in page 64, line 3, leave out paragraph (c).—[Mr. Jay.]
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I beg to move Amendment No. 241, in page 67, line 21, to leave out 'so given' and to insert 'given in a statement or report so annexed'. This Amendment corrects a minor error in drafting.
I beg to move, Amendment No. 243, in page 68, line 2, to leave out from 'prepare' to end of line 3 and to insert: 'the prescribed statement of business of that class, being, if a form is...
I beg to move Amendment No. 245, in page 69, line 19, to leave out from '1965' to 'shall' in line 21. I think that with this we can also discuss the next Amendment. All Amendment 245 does is to...
I beg to move, Amendment No. 246, in page 69, line 32, after 'on', to insert: '(whether within or outside Great Britain)'. With this we could also discuss Amendment No. 247 and Amendment No....
I beg to move, Amendment No. 249, in page 70, line 27 to leave out 'society or body'. With this Amendment we could conveniently take Amendments 250 and 251. These Amendments are to correct minor...
I beg to move Amendment No. 253, in page 72, line 41, to leave out subsection (1) and to insert: (1) Every insurance company to which the principal Act applies which is a body corporate shall,...
I beg to move Amendment No. 254, in page 73, line 19, after 'applies' to insert: 'or, if it is a body corporate, of another body corporate which is its holding company (within the meaning of the...
Amendment made: No. 255, in page 76, line 28, after 'directions', insert 'or instructions'.—[Mr. Jay.]
I beg to move Amendment No. 256, in page 77, line 4, to leave out 'or of a registered society' and to insert: .'of a registered society or of an unincorporated body of persons'. I think that we...
I beg to move Amendment No. 264, in page 77, line 43, leave out subsection (2). Amendments Nos. 264 and 266 have a threefold effect. First, they apply Clause 92, which we are now discussing to...
I beg to move Amendment No. 268, in page 80, line 34, to leave out three months' and to insert 'one year'. Our purpose in this Amendment is to meet a request from the Life Offices Association...
Amendment made: No. 299, in page 81, line 16, leave out 'Schedule' and insert: 'Schedules (Amendments of Insurance Companies Act 1958 consequential on sections 59 and 70(1) of this Act)...
Amendment made: No. 270, in page 82, line 7, leave out paragraph (e) and insert: () section 94, so far as relates to the Industrial Assurance Act 1923;() section (Power of Industrial Assurance...
I beg to move Amendment No. 272, in page 82, line 26, after 'body', to insert `corporate'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 321, in page 84, line 3, to leave out from 'any' to 'until' in line 6 and to insert: 'such criminal proceedings as are mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (aa) of the...
Amendments made: No. 322, in page 84, line 33, at end insert: (aa) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any criminal proceedings pursuant to, or arising out of,...
I beg to move Amendment No. 281, in page 86, line 30, after '88', to insert '(as read with 99(3))'. The Amendment takes us back to Clause 88, which states that where an offence under Part II of...
New Schedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF INSURANCE COMPANIES ACT 1958 CONSEQUENTIAL ON SECTIONS 59 AND 70(1) OF THIS ACT.) Provision amended and Subject-matter thereof Amendment Section 3 (separation...
Amendment No. 283 made: In page 89, line 13, leave out 'as regards Great Britain.'—[Mr. Darling.]
Amendment No. 284 made: In page 90, line 16, leave out from first 'and' to 'may' in line 17 and insert: 'Part II of this Act, Schedule (Amendments of Insurance Companies Act 1958 consequential on...
I beg to move Amendment No. 286, in page 94, line 45, Schedule 1, after the second 'of' to insert 'fixed'. Perhaps we could take Amendment No. 292 with this Amendment.
Amendments made: No. 292, in page 105, line 5, after second 'of', insert 'fixed'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 298, in page 117, line 7, Schedule 4, at the end to insert: Section 449 … Power to enforce orders. Section 449 of the 1948 Act, as I am sure you will be aware,...
Amendments made: No. 289, in page 117, leave out lines 25 to 39.
I beg to move Amendment No. 303, in page 123, column 3, Schedule 6, to leave out line 28 and to insert: In section 3, in subsection (1), the words Subject to the provisions of this Act'; in...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Howie.]
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