Clause 87. — (Interpretation and Construction of Part Iv.)

Orders of the Day — Housing Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 April 1964.

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Photo of Mr Frederick Corfield Mr Frederick Corfield , Gloucestershire South 12:00, 13 April 1964

I beg to move, in page 89, to leave out lines 4 to 8.

This is a drafting Amendment made desirable if not absolutely necessary by a later Government Amendment to Clause 102 whereby a lease is to be defined for all the purposes of the Bill in terms almost identical with those which are now left out of this Clause.

Amendment agreed to.

Photo of Mr Frederick Corfield Mr Frederick Corfield , Gloucestershire South

I beg to move, in line 39, at the end to insert: (3) References in this Part of this Act to expenditure incurred in respect of a house subject to a control order include, in a case where the local authority—

  1. (a) require persons living in the house to vacate their accommodation for any period while the local authority are carrying out works in the house, and
  2. (b) defray all or any part of the expenses incurred by or on behalf of those persons removing from and returning to the house, or provide housing accommodation for those persons for any part of that period,
references to the sums so defrayed by the local authority, and to the net cost to the local authority of so providing housing accommodation.(4) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the withdrawal of an appeal shall be deemed the final determination thereof having the like effect as a decision dismissing the appeal. This Amendment, which inserts two new subsections to the Clause, requires looking at in two parts because the two subsections are not closely related. The first new subsection (3) is a clarifying Amendment which arises from the question posed in Committee by the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Skeffington), who asked whether the Clause, as drafted, would cover the cost of moving and providing with temporary accommodation persons from a house affected by a control order while necessary works were being carried out.

My right hon. Friend and I made it clear that this was the intention, although on examining the text of the Bill more closely we came to the conclusion that it should be made abundantly clear. This is the objective of the new subsection (3) in the Amendment. I am sure that it meets the point that the hon. Member had in mind.

The new subsection (4), again, is somewhat similar to the Amendment we have just passed in the sense that it lifts a similar provision from a separate Clause, Clause 61, and makes it of general application to this part of the Bill by putting it in this new place in Clause 87.

Amendment agreed to.