HC Deb 04 July 1956 vol 555 cc1491-2

Lords Amendment: In page 22, line 11, leave out subsection (4), and insert: (4) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that where a port health authority or joint board has functions, rights or liabilities under this Act—

  1. (a) any reference in this Act to a local authority or its district includes, in relation to those functions, rights or liabilities, a reference to the port health authority or board or its district;
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  2. (b) for the purposes of this Act, no part of the district of any such port health authority or board is to be treated, in relation to any matter falling within the competence of the authority or board, as forming part of the district of any other authority."

Mr. Powell

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

This is something more than a drafting Amendment. Port health authorities have some of the functions, but not all of the functions, of local health authorities. It was, therefore, necessary to amend subsection (4) of Clause 29 so that the port health authority was the smoke control authority only in so far as its health functions extended. But that for the rest, those powers of control would remain with the local health authority.

Question put and agreed to.