HC Deb 05 June 1957 vol 571 cc1408-9

Lords Amendments made: In page 20, line 26, leave out "subsections (1) and (2)" and insert "subsection (1)."

In page 23, line 20, leave out "subsections (1) and (2)" and insert "subsection (1)."—[Mr. H. Brooke.]

Lords Amendment: In page 24, line 17, leave out paragraph 9 and insert:

9.—(l) If a certificate of disrepair is issued to the tenant of a dwelling, and the dwelling, or any part thereof which is in disrepair by reason of defects specified in the certificate, is subject to a sub-tenancy, being a controlled tenancy, then unless a certificate of disrepair in respect of those defects has been issued to the sub-tenant the same consequences shall follow as between the tenant and the subtenant as if a certificate of disrepair had been issued to the sub-tenant when the certificate was issued to the tenant, had specified the same defects as the certificate issued to the tenant, had been issued on an application made by the sub-tenant when the tenant applied for the certificate issued to him, and had continued in force for the same period as that certificate.

(2) Where sub-paragraph (1) of the foregoing paragraph has effect as between the landlord and the tenant, the foregoing subparagraph shall have effect accordingly between the tenant and the sub-tenant.

(3) Nothing in this paragraph shall prejudice the power of the sub-tenant to obtain a certificate of disrepair or the effect of any undertaking given to the sub-tenant.—[Mr. H. Brooke.]

Mr. H. Brooke

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

At first sight, this appears to be a substantial Amendment, but, in fact, it is purely consequential upon the substitution, at an earlier stage in this House, of a new paragraph 7 (4) of the Schedule. That change having been made in this House when the Bill was before it, it appeared necessary that we should redraft the paragraph to bring it into line with what the House had already done.

Question put and agreed to.