New Clause 17 - Financial assistance for establishment or maintenance of redress schemes

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 2:00 pm ar 30 Ionawr 2024.

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“The Secretary of State may give financial assistance (by way of grant, loan, or guarantee, or in any other form) or make other payments to a person for the establishment or maintenance of—

(a) a redress scheme, or

(b) a scheme that would be a redress scheme if it were approved or designated under section (

This new clause, to be inserted after NC16, would allow the Secretary of State to give financial assistance for the establishment or maintenance of redress schemes.

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.

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Secretary of State

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clause

A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.

Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.

During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.

When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.