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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

On behalf of my noble friend Lord Hodgson I shall speak to Amendments Nos. 65A and 65B, which are grouped with Amendment No. 65. They are probing amendments to explore a particular point. For example, what will happen with a company owning the fabric of public houses, some of which may be managed by employees of the company? The business is clearly under the ownership of the company and if, for the sake of argument, the company is headquartered in Wolverhampton, it might choose the local authority of its headquarters as its primary authority. As the Bill is drafted, I think it is the intention that the primary authority would have jurisdiction over all the managed pubs in the company. Would the tenanted pubs, the fabric of which are owned by the company but each of whose tenants are running small businesses in their own right, also have the cover of the same primary authority?