Clause 19 - Charging
Fire and Rescue Services Bill
11:15 am
Mr Richard Younger-Ross (Shadow Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Local Government & the Regions; Teignbridge, Liberal Democrat)
Amendment No. 71 is a tidying-up amendment consequent on amendment No. 70 being accepted. We want the fire and rescue authorities to have greater freedom in charging than the Bill allows. The clause says:
''The Secretary of State may by order authorise a fire and rescue authority to charge a person of a specified description for any action of a specified description taken by the authority.''
We seek to remove the need for the Secretary of State to make an order to allow an authority to charge and, instead, empower the authority to charge, as local authorities charge under the Local Government Act 2003. In short, we are trying to create the same rules for charging that currently apply to local authorities.
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock.
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Bailey, Mr.
Ellman, Mrs.
Flook, Mr.
Follett, Barbara
Gilroy, Linda
Hammond, Mr.
Hope, Phil
Humble, Mrs.
McCabe, Mr.
Murphy, Mr.
Pugh, Dr.
Raynsford, Mr.
Swire, Mr.
Younger-Ross, Mr.