§ Lords amendment: No. 47, in page 38, line 25, leave out "instalments" and insert "payments"
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerWith this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendment No. 48.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe amendment simply achieves consistency with the other references to the "payments". Amendment No. 48 is purely drafting.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords amendment No. 48 agreed to.
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Lords amendment: No. 49, in page 39, line 21, leave out subsection (8) and insert—
(8) Paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 16 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (duty of local authority to credit slum clearance subsidy to slum clearance revenue account) shall cease to have effect on 1st April 1989.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerWith this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendments Nos. 92 and 100.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonUnder paragraph 1(b) of schedule 16 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, local authorities are required to credit to their slum clearance revenue account payments of slum clearance subsidy. However, under the provisions of this clause the only payments to be made to local authorities in respect of expenditure on slum clearance on or after 1 April 1989 will be capital payments made under subsection (3). Slum clearance subsidy itself will disappear. Such capital payments will be credited to the appropriate capital account and not to a revenue account.
Lords amendment No. 49 therefore replaces the existing subsection (8) with a more definite provision to remove the duty on local authorities to credit subsidy payments to the slum clearance revenue account with effect from 1 April 1989. Lords amendment No. 100 adds paragraph 1(b) of schedule 16 to the repeal schedule. The repeal will take effect from 1 April 1989. Lords amendment No. 92 similarly amends section 207 of the 1987 Act to import the relevant parts of section 200, which is being repealed, explicitly into section 207. In summary, the points are therefore technical ones, consequential on the rest of the clause.
I understand that COSLA welcomes the change because it gives local authorities more flexibility.
§ Question put and agreed to.