HC Deb 22 July 1958 vol 592 cc369-70

Lords Amendment: In page 68, line 15, leave out sub-paragraph (1) and insert:

  1. (1) Where contributions under section eighty-six of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, in respect of a child or young person committed to, or received into, the care of a local authority are payable, by the person liable to make the contributions, to an authority other than the authority responsible for maintenance, the authority receiving the contributions from the said person shall pay them over to the authority responsible for maintenance, subject however to such deductions in respect of services rendered by the authority paying the contributions over as may be agreed between the two authorities or as in default of agreement may be determined by the Secretary of State.
  2. (2) In the foregoing sub-paragraph references to the authority responsible for main-tenance—
    1. (a) in relation to a child or young person committed to the care of a local authority, are references to that authority;
    2. (b) in relation to a child received into the care of a local authority, are references to the local authority into whose care the child has been received, except that where the authority to whom the contributions are payable by the person liable to make them has been notified that under subsection (4) of section one of the Children Act, 1948 expenses are being recovered from another authority, the said references shall be construed as references to that other authority.
  3. (3) In subsection (3) of section eighty-six of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 after the word "and" and where it first occurs there shall be inserted the words "in the case of a child or young person ordered to be sent to an approved school."

Mr. Bevins

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

This is a quite minor Amendment. The short point is that children may be in the care of a local authority which is not the local authority financially responsible for the child's maintenance. A third local authority may collect contributions payable by the child's parents or some other person responsible. The Amendment, which is supported by the County Councils' Association and the Association of Municipal Corporations, provides for a direct financial adjustment between the local authority which collects the contributions from the parent and the local authority which is ultimately financially responsible for the care of the child. It will save a certain amount of double accounting.

Question put and agreed to. [Special Entry.]

Lords Amendment: In page 70, line 31, leave out from "provision" to end of line 34 and insert: for the charter of the new borough, by applying thereto, with any necessary exceptions or modifications, the charter of any borough comprised in the union, provisions of charters of two or more boroughs comprised in the union, or the charter of one and provisions of the charters of one or more of the others.

Mr. H. Brooke

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

This Amendment and the next Amendment, in page 71, line 1, are linked Amendments. They are both of a drafting character.

Mr. Mitchison

This is a very involved Bill. The Schedules are exceptionally involved. I am sure that everyone in the House shares my own feeling to gratitude to the people who have done the work of drafting and considering the immense amount of technical detail and incorporating it in legislation. It is remarkable not that we have had so many drafting Amendments from another place, but that we have had so few.

Question put and agreed to.

Further Lords Amendment agreed to: In page 71, line 1, leave out from "provision" to end of line 4 and insert: for the charter of the new borough by applying thereto, with any necessary exceptions or modifications, the charter of any amalgamated borough, or, in the case of an amalgamation including two or more boroughs, by applying as aforesaid to the new borough provisions of charters of two or more amalgamated boroughs or the charter of one and provisions of the charters of one or more of the others".