§ Mr. Oakesasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will seek to repeal Part VI of the General Rate Act, 1967, and so provide for rates to be recovered in the county court as a civil debt and not in the magistrates' court.
§ Mr. RobinsonNot at present, but I am aware that the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgment Debts has recommended that jurisdiction for the recovery of rates should be transferred to the county courts as part of a comprehensive new system for enforcing civil debts. The recommendations as a whole are now being studied by the Government.