§ [No. 96.]
§ Page 71, line 31, at end insert—
§ 'New Towns (Amendment) Act 1976
§ 16. After section 15 of the New Towns (Amendment) Act 1976 there shall be inserted the following section—
1396§ "Application to new towns of the Development Board for Rural Wales.
§ 15A.—(1) The foregoing provisions of this Act shall apply in relation to the Development Board for Rural Wales ('the Board') and any new town within the area for which the Board is responsible under the Development of Rural Wales Act 1976 as they apply to a new town corporation for any new town and that town subject, however, to the modifications specified in this section.
§ (2) A dwelling is a 'dwelling of a new town' if it is a dwelling (whether or not in the area of the new town concerned) erected, adapted, or acquired by the Board for occupation as a dwelling and so erected, adapted or acquired for the purpose of developing any area of a new town or new town situated within the area for which the Board is responsible under that Act.
§ (3) A transfer scheme shall, in addition to specifying under section 3(6)(b) above the number or proportion of dwellings in respect of which the right to nominate tenants is conferred by the scheme, specify the period for which the right is to be exercisable but the Board's right shall only be exercisable during the period of five years beginning with the date on which the Board's interests in the transferred dwellings vest in the district council or such lesser period as may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, be agreed between the Board and the council.
§ (4) The powers, rights, liabilities and obligations of the Board which are excepted by subsection (8) of section 7 above from those which a district council are to have in relation to land managed under a transfer scheme include any powers, rights, liabilities and obligations which are certified by the Board as being appropriate for the Board to retain in order to enable them to complete their function of laying out and developing the new town, and subsection (9) of that section shall apply as if the certificate had been given under subsection (8)(c").".'
§ The LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 96. Your Lordships will be delighted to hear that Amendment No. 96 is the last of this series of Amendments, and I am grateful to the House for listening so patiently to such a stream of general technicality. The effect of this Amendment is to apply the provisions of the New Towns (Amendment) Bill to the Development Board for Rural Wales, by inserting a new Clause 15A in that Bill. The main purpose of the New Towns (Amendment) Bill is to provide for the transfer to the appropriate district councils of the ownership of rented dwellings and related assets held by new town development corporations and the Commission for the New Towns.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.