New clause 4 - Anti-social behaviour declarations: civil proceedings
Housing Benefit (Withholding of Payment) Bill
4:30 pm
'(1) This section applies where—
(a) in England and Wales, the High Court, a county court or a magistrates' court, or
(b) in Scotland, the Court of Session or the sheriff,
makes a prescribed order in any civil proceedings, other than prescribed proceedings.
(2) Any prescribed party to the proceedings may apply to the court for a declaration that any other prescribed party has behaved in an anti-social manner by reason of any or all of the conduct in respect of which the order is made.
(3) If the court is satisfied on an application under subsection (2) that the person concerned has so behaved it must make a declaration accordingly.
(4) A declaration under this section must specify the day on which the conduct in respect of which it is made occurred or, if that conduct occurred on more than one day, the earliest and latest days on which it occurred.
(5) Subsection (5) of section (anti-social behaviour declarations: criminal proceedings) applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section.'.—[Mr. Wicks.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead, Labour)
On a point of order, Mr. O'Hara. What is happening to amendments (a), (b) and (c) to new clause 4?
Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South, Labour)
They were amendments to new clause 3, and no one spoke to them. They were grouped with an earlier new clause.
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead, Labour)
Amendments (a), (b) and (c) relate to new clause 4, to which we have just agreed.