§ Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).— [King's Recommendation signified.]
§ [Colonel SIR CHARLES MACANDREW in the Chair]
§ Motion made, and Question proposed.
§ " That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for the carrying out of repairs and the making of payments in respect of damage affecting certain dwelling—houses and caused by subsidence resulting from the working and getting of coal and other minerals worked with coal, and for the execution of works to prevent or reduce such damage, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament
- (a) in respect of the period beginning with the passing of the said Act and ending with the thirty—first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty—two, of grants to the National Coal Board not exceeding one half of the amount of the additional expenditure incurred in that period by the Board by virtue of the said Act in or in connection with the carrying out of repairs and the making of payments in respect of subsidence damage to any dwelling—house to which the said Act applies or to any building comprising such a dwelling—house and the execution of works to prevent or reduce such damage, or one million five hundred thousand pounds, whichever is the less;
- (b) in respect of any subsequent calendar year, of grants to the National Coal Board not exceeding one half of the additional expenditure so incurred in that year, or two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, whichever is the less;
- (c) of the remuneration of any assessor summoned, or the expense of any remit made, in proceedings under the said Act.
§ In this Resolution the expression ' subsidence damage' means damage caused by the withdrawal of support from land as the result of the working and getting of coal or any other mineral which is worked with coal, and the reference to subsidence damage to any dwelling—house or building shall be construed as including a reference to subsidence damage to any structure, sewer, drain or installation within the curtilage of that dwelling—house or building."—(Mr. Robens.)
1764§ Committed to a Committee of the whole House.—[Mr.Hannan.]
§ Committee Tomorrow.