Part of National Heritage Bill [Lords] – in the House of Commons at 7:45 pm on 5 May 1983.
`(1) The Secretary of State shall afford the Secretary of State for the Environment all reasonable facilities such that the commission may from time to time carry out inspections of, and advise upon, all Scheduled Monuments and Listed Buildings in the Secretary of State's ownership and use.
(2) The Commission shall from time to time report to the Minister responsible for each Government department (and also to the Secretary of State for the Environment) on the state of maintenance and repair of scheduled monuments and listed buildings in the ownership or use of his department and may advise him on their proper maintenance and repair and as to uses
appropriate to them and the Commission may publish such of those reports as the Secretary of State for the Environment may allow.'—[Dr. David Clark.]