§ Amendment reported (according to Order).
§ Clause 8:
§ Amendment of 8. 41 of 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 35
§ 8.—(1) The Minister may, with the approval of the Treasury, make regulations prescribing the conditions subject to which repayments are to be made by the London County Council under section forty-one of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1919, to the councils of metropolitan boroughs in respect of any losses incurred by those councils in carrying out schemes to which section seven of that Act applies: Provided that the Treasury shall not approve any such regulation until satisfied that provision has been made that any loss incurred by the Metropolitan Borough Councils in carrying out such schemes is repaid to such Councils as directed by the said Act.
§ (2) Every regulation so made shall he laid before both houses of Parliament, as soon as may be after it is made, and, if an address is presented by either House within twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after any such regulation is laid before it praying that the regulation may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the regulation, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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THE EARL OF ONSLOW moved to leave out subsection (1), and insert the following new subsection:
(1) The London County Council shall, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister with the consent of the Treasury, repay to the council of a metropolitan borough any loss which may he incurred by that council in carrying out a scheme to which section seven of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1919, applies, and any payments so made by the London County Council shall be deemed to have been made as part of the expenses incurred by them in carrying out a scheme to which that section applies.
§ The noble Earl said: My Lords, this Amendment is intended to meet the point raised by the Marquess of Salisbury during the Committee stage. I then accepted, without prejudice, an Amendment from the noble Marquess, but, after consultation, the Amendment of the noble Marquess is not acceptable to the Government as it would defeat the object of the clause, which is to place Metropolitan borough councils in precisely the same position as all other local authorities. The Amendment which I now move, with a consequential Amendment in the Schedule, is designed to meet the point raised by the noble Marquess, and I hope it will be acceptable to him.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 8, page 4, lines 31 to 43, leave out subsection (1), and insert the said new subsection. —(The Earl of Onslow.)
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYMy Lords, I had the advantage of a private conference with the noble Earl, after your Lordships had last considered this Bill, and I am obliged to him for the change in drafting. I think, however, the Amendment amounts to rather more than a change in drafting. It makes it more obvious that borough councils will not have this burden thrown upon them, and that is important from the point of view I urged on the last occasion. I recognise that the Government accepted my Amendment without prejudice and that it is entirely open to them to move this Amendment in its place. I shall not oppose it, because they have done a great deal to meet the point of view I submitted to the House.
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 11:
§ Short title, extent and repeal.
§ 11.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Housing Act, 1921.
§ (2) The Housing (Additional Powers) Act, 1919, and this Act, so far as it amends that Act, may be cited together as the Housing (Additional Powers) Acts, 1919 and 1921, and the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1919, and this Act, so far as it amends those Acts, may be cited together as the Housing Acts, 1890 to 1921.
§ (3) This Act shall not apply to Scotland.
§ (4) The enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule.
§ THE EARL OF ONSLOW moved in subsection (4) to leave out "second." The noble Earl said: This is a drafting Amendment necessitated by the fact that the First 656 Schedule was taken out of the Bill in another place.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 11, page 6, line 30, leave out (" second ") —(The Earl of Onslow.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Schedule:
| ENACTMENTS REPEALED. | ||
| Session and Chapter. | Short title | Extent of Repeal. |
| 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 35. | The Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1919. | In subsections (3) and (4) of section twenty-eight the words" at a rate not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum." |
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Amendment moved—
Schedule, page 7, line 15, at end insert (" and subsection 2 of Section forty-one").—(The Earl of Onslow.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.