I beg to move amendment No. 172, in page 81, line 5, leave out "person" and insert "party to a merger".

I had intended to say that the arguments for the amendment could be put in a short compass. That notwithstanding, I do not think that they could be put in sufficiently short a compass to be concluded this morning.

It being One o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.

Adjourned till this day at half-past Four o'clock.