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Lords Amendment No. 160: In page 67, line 7, at end insert new Clause "U":
U. An agreement made by the Crown Estate Commissioners under section 200 of the principal Act (whereby a government department may agree with local planning authorities to secure the use of Crown land in conformity with the development plan) shall not require the approval of the Treasury; and accordingly in subsection (2) of that section the words 'the Crown Estate Commissioners or by' shall cease to have effect.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
I suggest that we take Amendment No. 247 with this Amendment, The Crown Estates Act, 1961 provided that the Crown Estate Commissioners should be no longer subject to direct and detailed Treasury control. The Countryside (Scotland) Act provided that in that part 1511 of the world similar control need no longer be exercised by the Treasury. We have followed Scottish precedent.
§ Question put and agreed to.
| V.-(1) This Act shall come into operation on a day appointed by an order made by statutory instrument by the Minister, and different days may be appointed under this section for different purposes and, in particular, different days may be so appointed for the coming into operation of the same provision in different areas. | |
| 10 | (2) Any reference in this Act to the commencement of any provision thereof shall be construed as a reference to the day appointed for the coming into operation of that provision or, in the case of a provision which comes into operation on different days in different areas, shall, in relation to any area, be construed as a reference to the day appointed for the coming into operation of that provision in that area. |
| 15 | (3) An order under this section may make such transitional provision as appears to the Minister to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought into force, including such adaptation of those provisions or any provision of this Act then in force as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the partial operation of this Act (whether before or after the day appointed by the order). |
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| 25 | (4) The Minister of Housing and Local Government shall, for England, and the Secretary of State shall, for Wales, each maintain and keep up to date a register showing the effect of orders made under this section in such a way as enables members of the public to inform themselves— |
| (a) as to the provisions of this Act which have come, or are to be brought, into operation, and on which dates and in relation to which areas; and | |
| 30 | (b) as to whether, in the case of a particular area, any transitional provision has been made by such an order. |
| 35 | (5) The register maintained by the Minister of Housing and Local Government under this section shall be kept at his principal offices in London, and the register so maintained by the Secretary of State shall be kept at his principal offices in Cardiff; and both registers shall be available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours. |
§ Read a Second time.
§ Mr. SpeakerI suggest that we discuss also Amendments Nos. 162 and 163, and I have selected the second Amendment to this Lords Amendment.
§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move, as an Amendment to the Lords Amendment, in line 34, leave out 'both' and insert:
'copies shall be kept by the local planning authorities of all such entries in the Register as shall affect the area of that authority; and all such entries and'.In this case the Government have inserted a provision for a register to be kept by the Minister of Housing and Local Government of the coming into operation of the various parts of the Bill when enacted. The register is to be maintained in two places—in the offices