Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. A236B: "Page 379, line 33, leave out ““does not affect”” and insert ““is without prejudice to””" The noble Lord said: The amendment will make the clause a closer copy of Section 5(2) of the Business Names Act 1985. That is entitled: "““Civil remedies for breach of Section 4””," and subsection (2) reads: "““This section is without prejudice to the right of any person to enforce such rights as he may have against another person in proceedings brought by that person””." Where the same provision is to be enacted, we argue that the words should not be changed or—as the Minister and I have swapped over the Dispatch Box many times over the past few weeks—the court may find that the words were changed for a particular reason. It is important that there should be constancy in the law, and we see no reason why a different formulation should be adopted here. I beg to move.