HC Deb 10 May 1976 vol 911 cc113-4
Mr. Guy Barnett

I beg to move Amendment No. 27, in page 17, line 19, after 'land' insert: 'and the function and the enactment which confers the function'.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this we are to take Government Amendment No. 28.

Mr. Barnett

Amendment No. 27 will require a local authority, serving a notice under the provision, to state in the notice the function in connection with which it requires the information and also the enactment by which that function is conferred.

This amendment, too, results from an undertaking given by the Government in Committee to consider tabling their own amendment to meet the point made, I think, by the hon. Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Bottomley). In Committee my hon. Friend said that he took on board the point

that where the local authority serves a notice requiring someone to give information about somebody else it is right and proper that, before giving that information, the person concerned should know why that information is wanted."—[Official Report, Standing Committee B; 1st April 1976, c. 80.]

Amendment agreed to

Amendment made: No. 28, in page 17, line 21, after 'notice', insert '(which shall not be less than fourteen days beginning with the day on which the notice is served) '.—[Mr. Guy Barnett.]

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