HL Deb 25 February 1975 vol 357 c679

[Nos. 7–9.]

Schedule 5, page 29, line 24, leave out from "to" to end of line 32 and insert "the following provisions of the Housing Rents and Subsidies Act 1975, namely—

section 2 (reserve power to limit rents);

section 8 and Schedule 2 (phasing of rent increases for private sector housing);

section 9 and Schedule 3 (certain amenities to be disregarded in determining fair rent);

section 11 and Schedule 4 (increases of rent under controlled tenancy permitted towards costs of repaids)."

The Commons agreed to this Amendment, but proposed the following Amendments thereto:—

Line 8, at end insert—

"Section 10 (termination of decontrol of tenancies by reference to rateable value)."

Line 10, at end insert "together with section 15(5), so far as it relates to the repeals contained in part 111 of Schedule 6."

Baroness BIRK

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 to the Lords Amendment No. 7.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 to the Lords Amendment No. 7.—(Baroness Birk.)

Baroness YOUNG

My Lords, may I say that we on this side of the House are grateful that in another place the Government have seen fit to keep in their Amendment by which certain amenities may be disregarded in calculating the fair rent.

On Question, Motion agreed to.