§ Clause 8, page 10, line 23, at end insert ("and have the same rights with respect to the removal of fruit trees or bushes or improvements as if his tenancy had been so terminated")
§ Clause 8, page 11, line 8, leave out ("or canal") and insert ("canal, water, or other public")
§ Clause 8, line 8, at end insert ("or to land which is or forms part of any area dedicated or appropriated as a public park, garden, or pleasure ground, or for use for the purposes of public recreation").
§ Clause 10, page 11, line 39, leave out ("exceed ten thousand") and insert ("thereof is ten thousand or upwards").
§ After Clause 12, insert the following new clause:
§ Access to allotments.
§ (". It shall be the duty of a local authority providing allotments to make provision for access thereto by suitable roads or paths, where 1068 such means of access are not already available, and by regulations made under the Allotments Acts to require that access to the allotments shall be had only by such roads or paths.")
§ Clause 14, page 12, leave out Clause 14.
§ Clause 15, page 12, line 41, after ("provisions") insert ("(other than such expenses as are hereinafter specified) ")
§ Clause 15, page 13, line 9, at end insert:
§ ("Provided that such expenses shall not include—
- (a) expenses in relation to the acquisition of land other than the price, feu duty, ground annual, or rent, or other compensation payable in respect of the land;
- (b) expenses incurred in making roads to be used by the public;
- (c) sinking fund charges in respect of loans raised in connection with the purchase of land.")
§ Clause 15, page 13, line 20, leave out ("best" and insert ("fair")
§ Clause 15, page 13, line 21, leave out ("that can reasonably be obtained").
§ After Clause 15, insert the following new clause:
§ Rating of allotments.
§ (".—(1) A local authority providing land for allotments may, with respect to any assessment imposed and levied by such local authority, resolve, and with respect to any assessment imposed and levied by any other authority, by notice to that authority, require, that the local authority providing the land shall with respect to such assessment be deemed to be the occupiers of the land, notwithstanding that the land or part thereof may be let, and in such case that local authority shall for the purposes of such assessment be deemed to be the occupiers of the land until the resolution is revoked, or the notice is withdrawn, as the case may be.
§ (2) The foregoing subsection shall apply to an association providing land for allotments with respect to any assessment in like manner as it applies to a local authority so providing land with respect to an assessment imposed and levied by another authority, if at the request of the association the authority by whom the assessment is imposed and levied agree that it shall so apply.")
§ After Clause 16, insert the following new clause:
§ Financial provisions.
§ (".—(1) The maximum period for the repayment of money borrowed by a local authority under the Allotments Acts shall, notwithstanding any other enactment, where the purpose for which the money is borrowed is the purchase of land for allotments, be eighty years.
§ (2) Money borrowed by a local authority for the purpose of providing allotments shall not be reckoned as part of the total outstanding debt of the authority for the purpose of any enactment restricting the powers of borrowing by the authority.")
§
Clause 18, page 15, line 21, at end insert:
("References to population shall be construed as references to population according to the
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published returns of the last census for the time being.")
§ Clause 18, page 15, line 29, after ("and") insert ("the proviso to").
§ In the First Schedule, page 17, lint. 17, at end insert:
| ("9 & 10 Geo.5.c.97 | The Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919 | Section nineteen.") |
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.— (The Duke of Atholl.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.