HL Deb 26 July 1988 vol 500 c190

12 Schedule 13, page 147, line 28, at end insert— .—(1) Section 24 of that Act (duty to provide for rebates from community charges) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (a)—

  1. (i) for the words "local authorities" there shall be substituted the words "levying authorities"; and
  2. (ii) for the words from "community charges" to "this Act)" there shall be substituted the "words "personal community charges and (except in relation to residence in premises which are special designated premises for the purposes of section I l(4B) of this Act) collective community charge contributions".

(3) In paragraph (b) for the words "local authority in respect of each year" there shall be substituted the words "levying authority".

(4) That section as so amended shall be subsection (1) and there shall be added the following subsection— (2) This section shall have effect only in respect of the financial year 1989-90.".".

13 The Commons agreed to this amendment and proposed the following amendment to it:

Line 8, leave out "(except in relation to residence in premises which are special designated premises for the purposes of section 11(4B) of this Act)".

The Earl of Caithness

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 13 to Lords Amendment No. 12. The amendment made by another place simply corrects a missed consequential by deleting a reference to special designated premises. That reference was included by amendment on Report in your Lordships' House when it was proposed in certain cases that the collective community charge and collective community charge contributions should be automatically reduced to give the effect of full rebates for all residents in specially designated collective community charge premises.

However, those provisions were superseded by the provision brought forward on Third Reading for complete exemption from both personal and collective community charge liability for residents in short-stay hostels of a prescribed description. I beg to move.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 13 to Lords Amendment No. 12—(The Earl of Caithness.)

Lord Morton of Shuna

My Lords, this disagreement took place in another place without any discussion as to the reasons for it, because of the operation of the guillotine procedure. It is satisfactory, as this amendment in all its stages was a government amendment, to have some explanation as to why the other place disagreed with it, no doubt at the instigation of the Government. However, having had that explanation, I have no reason to disagree with it now.

On Question, Motion agreed to.