Part of Orders of the Day — Dog Racecourse Betting (Temporary Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 March 1947.
Mr James Ede
, South Shields
12:00,
21 March 1947
The Bill does not reduce the capacity of any area to supply greyhound racing. All it does is to alter the days on which greyhound racing can take place. Therefore, a person sitting down and ticking off the amusements in the way suggested by the hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Carson) will not say: "Margate, greyhound racing, Thursday; Blackpool, greyhound racing, Friday. As I believe that Friday should be a day of fast I will, therefore, give it to Margate." We are not giving any preference as between one holiday resort and another.
The difficulty is that most holiday resorts are within very reasonable distance of some highly industrial areas. I do not know whether my Constituency is a holiday resort or an industrial area. It has the best free pier in the country. I very much doubt whether anyone can say whether it is an area in which industry is not also being carried on to a very highly specialised extent. I very much regret, much as I would like to do what I can to ease the difficulties confronting hon. Members, that I cannot accept the proposed new Clause.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
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