HC Deb 22 July 1919 vol 118 cc1315-6

The Local Government Board may make Arrangements with any other Government Department for the exercise or performance by that Department of any of their powers and duties under the Housing Acts which appear to them could be more conveniently so exercised and performed, and in such case the Department and officers of the Department shall have the same powers and duties as are by the Housing Acts conferred on the Local Government Board and their officers.

Lords Amendment:

Leave out the words "appear to them," and insert instead thereof the words in their opinion —Agreed to.

Lords Amendments:

After CLAUSE 33, insert new Clauses:

C. — (Compensation in Cases of Subsidence.)

Notwithstanding anything in Section fifty of the Brine pumping (Compensation for Subsidence) Act, 1891, a local authority or county council shall be entitled to compensation in accordance with the provisions of that Act in respect of any injury or damage to any houses belonging to such local authority or council, and provided under a housing scheme towards the losses on which the Local Government Board is liable to contribute under this Act.

—Agreed to.

D. — (Application of Act to New Forest.)

The provision of houses under the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1919, shall be deemed to be a local sanitary requirement for the purpose of the New Forest (Sale of Lands for Public Purposes) Act, 1902, provided that the total area of land being part of the New Forest, which may be sold or let for the provision of houses shall not exceed thirty acres.

—Agreed to.

E. — (Extension of Powers of Commissioners of Woods.)

The Commissioners of Woods may under and in accordance with the provisions of the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1906, sell or let to a local authority for the purposes of Part III. of the principal Act any part of the land described on the duplicate plans which have been deposited with the Clerk of Parliaments and the Clerk of the House of Commons notwithstanding that Such land may be part or parcel of a royal park, if the Ministry of Health, after holding a local inquiry, are satisfied that the acquisition of the land by the local authority for such purposes as aforesaid is desirable in the national interest.

Lords Amendment read a second time.

Dr. ADD1SON

I beg to move, as an Amendment to the Lords. Amendment, to-leave out the words "Ministry of Health," and to insert instead thereof the words Local Government Board.

Amendment to the Lords Amendment agreed to.

Lords Amendment, as amended, agreed to. — (King's Consent signified.)