HC Deb 10 July 1981 vol 8 c762

Lords amendment: No. 2, in page 3, line 16, after "agreement" insert , as at the first day of the twelve month period to which the consideration will relate,

Mr. Peter Fraser

I beg to move, That this House cloth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)

With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendment No. 3.

Mr. Fraser

This is a drafting amendment designed to remove an ambiguity concerning the basis on which land should be valued for access agreements as part of the process by which the district valuer arrives at a consideration to be paid to the owner for entering into an access agreement. There have been considerable difficulties in Scotland over the way in which the value of an access agreement is to be reached. The principal purpose of the clause is to provide a simple but clear basis for assessment.

In another place it was thought that there was some ambiguity about whether the assessment was to be based on a valuation without the access agreement. There has been some confusion, but it seems that amendments Nos. 2 and 3 put the issue beyond doubt. If the amendments are accepted, the district valuer will be clear that the land that requires to be valued is land that does not carry access at the time that he values it.

Question put and agreed to.

Lords amendment No. 3 agreed to.

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