Localism Bill

My Lords, Clause 4(1) provides that an authority may, "““do things for a commercial purpose””;" that is, to trade under the general power, while subsection (2) provides that if an authority is doing something for a commercial purpose, it must be carried out ““through a company””. If an authority wishes to trade, under subsection (1) it can do so, but if it wants to do something else for a commercial purpose, it must be carried out through a company. It is not trading, rather it is presumably providing a service of some sort, and that must be done through a company.