Orders of the Day — Clause 1. — (Sunday Opening of Exhibi- Tions and Gardens.)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 December 1950.

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Photo of Mr Hartley Shawcross Mr Hartley Shawcross , St Helens 12:00, 7 December 1950

That is exactly what I said, but the difficulty we are in, as I explained to the House I think quite frankly, is that on Second Reading the Lord President of the Council gave an undertaking that we would not try to apply the technical position too technically, but would try to administer the matter in accordance with the sense of the House. There are illuminations of a quite different kind in some fairgrounds. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman talked of fairground illuminations. Although I am quite certain in advising the House that it would be legal to have illuminations in the Festival Gardens without this Amendment, we do not want to do what would be technically legal if it is against the sense of the House. That is the object hon. Members had in mind when they put down the Amendment. They want to get guidance for the proper and seemly administration of the Gardens.