§ Mr. SkeffingtonI beg to move Amendment No. 99, in page 37, line 23, leave out 'prohibiting' and insert 'preventing'.
Perhaps it would be convenient to discuss, at the same time, Government Amendments Nos. 100, 101, 102, 105 and 106.
The effect of these Amendments is that, under any scheme under Section 22 of the Housing Act, 1961, the responsibility and the penalty is to be placed squarely on the person permitting the contravention to occur, while also ensuring that the safety of the persons living in the house is not put at risk. This matter was also argued fully and persuasively by the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Allason). We were not unsympathetic to his proposal in Committee, and these Amendments will achieve what he had in mind.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerWe appreciate very much this long series of triumphs for my hon. Friend the Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Allason). We only regret that, during these debates, more of the good, sound common sense spoken on 1851 this side was not heeded by the Government.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Further Amendments made: No. 100, in page 37, line 28, leave out from 'house' to end of line 33 and insert—
'and such provisions may prohibit persons from permitting others to take up residence in a house or part of a house but shall not prohibit any person from taking up or remaining in residence'.
§ No. 101, in page 37, line 37, leave out 'prohibit' and insert 'affect'.
§ No. 102, in page 37, line 40, leave out 'prohibit' and insert 'affect'.
§ No. 105, in page 38, line 46, leave out 'prohibits' and insert 'relates to'.
§ No. 106, in page 39, line 9, leave out 'prohibits' and insert 'relates to'.—[Mr. Skeffington.]
§ Mr. MacCollI beg to move Amendment No. 103, in line 41, leave out from beginning to 'two' in line 44 and insert—
(a) the persons occupying the house form.This is another triumph for the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Allason), who in Committee moved an Amendment the principle of which I accepted. This is our attempt to put into proper form the spirit of his Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Mr. MacCollI beg to move Amendment No. 104, in page 38, line 27, after 'notified' insert—
'or such longer period as the local authority may in writing allow'.This, too, is the result of an Amendment moved in Committee by the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead. My right hon. Friend said that while he did not think it right to involve the court in this issue—I will not go into this matter now; we discussed it thoroughly in Committee—he had in mind a provision along the lines of Section 17(1) of the 1961 Act.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: No. 105, in line 46, leave out 'prohibits' and insert 'relates to'.
§ No. 106, in page 39, line 9, leave out 'prohibits' and insert 'relates to'.—[Mr. Skeffington.]