Clause 60 — (Recovery of Local Authority's Expenses Under Part Ii of Act of 1961.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Housing Bill – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 13 Ebrill 1964.

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

These are both drafting Amendments, though they differ a little in their effect. The reason for the omission of the lines in both cases is that they are no longer required because of a later Government Amendment, No. 167, in Clause 87, page 89, 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 ease 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. whereby similar words are inserted as a new subsection (4) to Clause 87, which applies to the whole of this part of the Bill.

The inserting of the new subsection (6) into Clause 61 in place of lines 7 to 10 clearly has a rather different meaning, however. It is not directly connected with the deletions except in so far as this is a convenient place in the Bill to insert these provisions. They arise from Section 23(4) and (5) of the 1961 Act, which provides that responsible officers of a company can be equally responsible with a company for any offence committed under Part II of the 1961 Act. This Amendment introduces the same provisions into this Bill.