§ [No. 7]
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Clause 2, page 3, line 12, leave out from beginning to "and" in line 17 and insert—
(2) After receiving a notice under subsection (1) above the site operator shall display a notice on the site from the beginning of April to the end of October in every year so long as the proposal is current or the site or part of it is treated as a single hereditament under section 1(1) above (but starting with the April following the receipt of the notice under subsection (1), if it is received in October), and shall state in the notice so displayed—
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(a) the part of the site included in the hereditament by the proposal or in the valuation list (or that the whole site is so included);
(aa) and the facts stated in the notice under subsection (1).
§ Baroness BIRKMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 7. With the leave of the House, I should like at the same time to speak to Government Amendment No. 7A which follows and which corrects a minor drafting error in the Commons Amendment. The purpose of Amendment No. 7 is to extend the requirement for the notice to be displayed beyond the first year, and to ensure that after it is first received it is displayed at all times from the beginning of April to the end of October. It also ensures that the notice includes the information provided by the valuation officer under subsection (1).
The system will therefore work in the following way. The site operator will receive from the valuation officer a notice stating the number of caravans, occupied by persons other than the site operator, included in the new single assessment, and the rateable value he attributes to these caravans and pitches. The site operator will then display a notice on the site from the beginning of April to the end of October in any year showing (a) the part of the site included in the new single assessment; (c) the information included in the valuation officer's notice; (c) the general rate poundage. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Baroness Birk.)
§ The DEPUTY SPEAKER (Lord Amherst of Hackney)My Lords, the Question is that the House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 7. I now call Amendment No. 7A as an Amendment to Amendment No. 7.
§ [No. 7A]
§ Line 13, at beginning leave out ("(aa) and") and insert ("b").
§ Baroness BIRKMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with Amendment No. 7A to the Commons Amendment No. 7.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment to the Amendment.—(Baroness Birk.)
1637§ Lord ELTONMy Lords, I am not quite certain whether I am speaking to the amended Amendment, to the Amendment to the Amendment or to the Amendment itself, but the fact is that in any case I wish to raise no objection to it. This follows on a long and at one stage almost acrimonious discussion that we had in this House, in which it transpired that in fact we were all trying to do the same thing. The noble Baroness said that something like this would emerge from it; and I am sure the Liberals would join in accepting it with pleasure were they here.
§ The DEPUTY SPEAKERThe Question is that this House doth agree with Amendment No. 7A to the Commons Amendment No. 7.