Baroness Scott of Bybrook:

Moved by Baroness Scott of Bybrook

16: Schedule 2, page 35, line 35, after “security)” insert “—(a) in subsection (1), omit the words from “that” to the end;Member's explanatory statementSection 108 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 contains restrictions on when a person may take steps to enforce security over property of a private registered provider. This amendment extends the provisions so they apply to any private registered provider, whatever form it takes.

17: Schedule 2, page 36, line 5, at end insert—“(c) omit subsection (3);”Member's explanatory statementThis is consequential on amendments made to section 79 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 by clause 5 of the Bill.

18: Schedule 2, page 36, line 5, at end insert—“(d) before subsection (4) insert—“(3A) In the case of a registered provider that is a charity registered under the Charities Act 2011 which is not a body corporate, the reference to the property of the registered provider is to the property held on the trusts of the charity (and for this purpose “trusts” has the same meaning as in the Charities Act 2011, see section 353 of that Act).””Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the amendment to Schedule 2, page 35, line 35 in the Minister’s name.

Amendments 16 to 18 agreed.

Schedule 2, as amended, agreed.

Clauses 14 to 15 agreed.

Clause 16: Notification of constitutional changes