§ 3.35 p.m.
§ The Minister for Planning and Local Government (Mr. John Silkin)I beg to move Amendment No. 301, in page 70, line 10, leave out 'community land accounts' and insert 'authorities'.
It is envisaged that two kinds of payments from one authority to another may need to be provided for in LAMS—land acquisition and management schemes. First, one authority—for example, a district—may be carrying out the total operation of the land scheme in the area of another authority, the county. It may therefore be right, when the first authority's land account comes into surplus, for it to pay some of its retained 30 per cent. share to the second authority to reflect, for instance, services provided by that authority in the area.
Second, where one authority is using the staff of another authority, it will need to make payments to that authority to reflect this. The present drafting of the Bill covers the first instance, but not the second. The amendment is therefore needed to cover both possibilities.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Amendment made: No. 122, in page 70, line 43, at end insert—
'6. The provisions of paragraph 5 above shall apply in relation to any direction given by the Secretary of State under section 19(7) of this Act as they apply in relation to a scheme which has been made or revised. '.—[Mr. John Silkin.]