§ Mr. John Hallasked the Attorney-General what statutory and non-statutory provisions have so far been made to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Committee on Administrative Tribunals and Inquiries.
The Attorney-General: The Tribunals and Inquiries Act, 1958, implemented most of the recommendations made by the Committee. Effect was given to further recommendations by the Land Powers (Defence) Act, 1958, Sections 3 and 5 of the Agriculture Act, 1958, Part III of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1959, and the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1959.
Where land is acquired for defence purposes which are outside the scope of the Land Powers (Defence) Act, 1958, a procedure corresponding to the one prescribed by that Act is now followed in accordance with the undertaking given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War in answer to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Bebington (Sir H. Oakshott) on 6th March, 1959. The Committee's recommendations about legal representation before tribunals have been implemented by several statutory instruments.
Effect was given to a number of recommendations about statutory inquiries affecting land by circulars issued by my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Housing and Local Government, and they will be followed in due course by the rules of procedure to be made under the powers 27W conferred by Section 33 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1959. Other minor recommendations have been implemented by administrative action.