§ Sir George YoungI beg to move amendment No. 57, in page 150, leave out lines 19 to 23.
§ Mr. Deputy Speaker Mr. Ernest Armstrong)I suggest that it is convenient for the House to discuss at the same time amendment No. 58.
§ Sir George YoungThese are technical amendments to schedule 14, which extends to the new authorities the appropriate powers currently available to local authorities generally.
Amendment No. 57 has the effect of no longer extending to the new ILEA and the metropolitan county PTAs the provisions of section 240 of the Local Government Act 1972 as regards expenses in respect of provisional orders. That extension had been intended to cope with circumstances where those authorities wished compulsorily to purchase land belonging to a local authority or statutory undertaker, common and or open space. The appropriate way forward in such circumstances, however, would be not by provisional orders but by special parliamentary procedure. Extension to those authorities of the arrangements for provisional orders is therefore unnecessary.
Amendment No. 58 corrects a typographical error. The reference to be inserted into the Housing Act 1980 is, of course, to this Bill, once enacted: the "Local" not the "London" Government Act 1985.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment made: No. 58, in page 155, line 1, leave out 'London' and insert 'Local'.—[Sir George Young.]