Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 25 October 1939.
Mr Donald Somervell
, Crewe
I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
This is a new Clause defining for the purposes of the Act an offer to sell goods. The matters set out would not technically be offers to sell for the purposes of other branches of the law, such as a contract for the sale of goods, but it is obviously desirable that for the purposes of this Bill they should be regarded as offers to sell, and it is thought necessary and desirable to make it quite clear that these matters may be regarded as offers to sell.
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When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
