Part of Orders of the Day — Housing Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 April 1964.
Mr Frederick Corfield
, Gloucestershire South
12:00,
13 April 1964
I beg to move, in page 87, line 43, at the end to insert:
(2) Where the county court on an appeal against a control order, or on an appeal under the last foregoing section, revokes a control order the court may authorise the local authority under section 69(2) of this Act to create interests which expire, or which the dispossessed proprietor can terminate, within six months from the time when the control order ceases to have effect, being interests which, notwithstanding subsection (3) of the said section 69, are for a fixed term exceeding one month, or are terminable by notice to quit (or an equivalent notice) of more than four weeks.
We touched on this Amendment, though we did not discuss it fully, when dealing with two earlier Amendments.
This is the Amendment to which I referred when replying to the hon. Member for Widnes (Mr. MacColl). It gives the county court a power to authorise the local authority to create leases or interests akin to leases up to six months at the time when an appeal is brought either against the order in the first place, or against a refusal to revoke the order. We discussed the principle fairly fully earlier.
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