Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Home Secretary whether he has taken or proposes to take any action regarding a publication entitled "East Asia News Service" under Regulation 18D or other Defence Regulation?
Mr Francis Douglas: May I point out to the Minister that the form in which the Agreement is framed will be decisive on rating? Several times in the course of his remarks he has referred to the payment of £43,000,000 as being a rent. Will it be so expressed in the Agreement?
Mr Francis Douglas: It will produce the adverse results foretold.
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Minister of Labour whether he will publish a consolidated summary of the Unemployment Insurance Acts and Regulations for the guidance of the large number of persons concerned in the operation of this legislation?
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Minister of Health whether he will publish a consolidated summary of the Acts and Regulations relating to old age and widows' pensions, respectively, for the assistance of the many persons concerned?
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the. Minister of Food whether he is now able to make any statement regarding the proposal that vendors of food substitutes should be required to disclose on each package the precise composition of the article sold?
Mr Francis Douglas: Is it not as necessary that people should know the composition of food substitutes as of drugs and medicines?
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food what is the total cost, to the latest convenient date, of the Press advertising published at the instance of the Ministry of Food?
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, whether his attention has been called to recent prosecutions of vendors of food substitutes; and whether he will consider the imposition upon vendors of such substitutes of an obligation to disclose on each packet sold the precise nature and composition of the article?
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will take steps to have published in the Press and by broadcasting the prices at which market-garden produce, and other foodstuffs liable to rapid variation in price, are being sold in the markets, in order that housewives may have information enabling them to judge the fairness of the prices asked by retailers?
Mr Francis Douglas: I beg to move, in page 4, line 6, to leave out "of five pounds," and to insert not exceeding one per cent. of the net profits of the solicitor from carrying on the profession of solicitor for the last accounting period for which an accountant's certificate has to be delivered. This Clause relates to the fund which it is proposed to establish for the purpose of making restitution, in certain...
Mr Francis Douglas: I beg to move, in page 5, line 43, at the end, to add: (10) The provisions of this section shall not take effect until such time as solicitors shall become exempt from the obligation of paying stamp duty upon practising certificates. The object of the Amendment is to provide that the Clause shall not take effect until solicitors are exempt from the obligation of paying Stamp Duty upon...
Mr Francis Douglas: I am not very much mollified in my attitude by the suggestion that this is a wrecking Amendment, nor that it is brought forward from motives of self-interest. I would not put forward an argument for the benefit of some particular section of the community. I have tried, and I hope I have succeeded in pointing out that a section of the community is subject to an unfair and discriminating...
Mr Francis Douglas: I beg to move, in page 16, line 25, to leave out Subsection (1). This Clause does something which is obnoxious to the spirit of English law, that is, to place upon a person the obligation of proving that he is innocent of a criminal offence before placing the onus of proof upon the prosecutor. I think it is a great pity that such a Clause should be inserted in a Bill, above all in a Bill of...
Mr Francis Douglas: This Bill has been introduced, as the Attorney-General said, at the instance of a private organisation, the Law Society. In order that it should be discussed in the House, the Government have given it facilities which would not otherwise have been afforded. I do not complain about that, because I think that out of discussion some improvements may come. The main purpose of the Bill, of course,...
Mr Francis Douglas: asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of an in crease in the number of samples of milk found to be deficient in fat; and whether, in view of the shortage of fats and the consequent necessity of keeping available supplies up to standard, he will urge upon the authorities concerned the necessity of vigilance to prevent the abstraction of butter fat from milk?
Mr Francis Douglas: I beg to move, in page 1, line 6, to leave out Sub-section (1). The Amendment which I am moving now is preliminary to a series of Amendments to the following Sub-section which are intended to extend the provisions which are contained in this Clause so as to make them apply to tenancies or leases of any length and to ensure that where property suffers war damage, and becomes incapable of use,...
Mr Francis Douglas: I should like to give some other examples of the cases which the Amendment is intended to cover. The Bill, like the principal Act, deals with cases where land, including the buildings on them, has been rendered unfit by reason of war damage. I do not know what interpretation the Attorney-General places upon that, but I have always understood it to mean that the house has been rendered unfit...
Mr Francis Douglas: The right hon. and learned Gentleman has expressed the difficulty of accepting the Amendment with its use of the word "amenities" which he considers as vague or of ill-defined meaning. A phrase which might be used instead of "amenities" is "extent or nature of the accommodation." Those words are frequently used.
Mr Francis Douglas: I beg to move, in page 4, line 42, at the end, to add: (7) Where a notice of disclaimer bas been served, or is deemed to have been served, by a tenant before the date of the passing of this Act, he may, within three months from that date, serve a conditional notice of retention upon his landlord and such notice shall operate as from the date when he gave notice of dislaimer provided,...