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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Tuesday 18 September 2012

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

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Consideration of Bill


 

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, As Amended

 

Duty on employers to prevent detriment caused by others to workers who have made

 

protected disclosures

 

Katy Clark

 

NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall make regulations requiring an employer, where a

 

worker has made a protected disclosure under section 43A of the Employment

 

Rights Act 1996, to take reasonable steps to ensure that the worker is not

 

subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by a person

 

other than his employer done on the ground that worker has made the disclosure.

 

(2)    

Regulations under this section—

 

(a)    

are to be made by statutory instrument, and

 

(b)    

are not to be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before,

 

and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.’.

 

Duty of company directors to protect consumer pre-payments

 

Katy Clark

 

NC3

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

A director of a company must ensure—

 

(a)    

that provision is made for consumers to be reimbursed where they have

 

made payments, in full or in part, in respect of goods or services that the

 

company is unable to deliver, and

 

(b)    

that a statement of the nature of this provision is made available to

 

consumers and prospective consumers.

 

(2)    

A person who fails to carry out his duty under subsection (1) is guilty of an

 

offence under section 993 of the Companies Act 2006.’.


 
 

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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Town and country planning: Amendment of the Town and Country Plannning (Control of

 

Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007

 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Class 3 of Schedule 3 to the Town and Country Planning (Control of

 

Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007, (Classes of advertisements for

 

which deemed consent is granted) is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In item 3A, after “sale”, leave out “or letting”.

 

(3)    

In item 3A(2), after both uses of “sold”, leave out “or let”.

 

(4)    

In item 3A(2), after “sale”, leave out “or letting”.

 

(5)    

In item 3A(8), after “sale”, leave out “or letting”.’.

 

Town and country planning: responsibilities of housing authorities

 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

NC5

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Local authorities in England which enjoy day-to-day responsibility for housing

 

policy within their local authority area may make by-laws regulating for all or

 

part of the authority the display of external advertisements concerning property

 

lettings.

 

(2)    

If a housing authority has not specifically provided for the display of external

 

notices advertising a property to let then such a notice is not permitted.’.

 

Town and country planning: offences

 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

NC6

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

It shall be an offence to display an external notice prohibited by subsection (2) of

 

section (Town and country planning: responsibilities of housing authorities).

 

(2)    

A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable, on summary

 

conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

 

(3)    

A person guilty of a second or subsequent offence under subsection (1) is liable,

 

on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard for each

 

seperate such offence.’.

 

Town and country planning: commencement and extent

 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

NC7

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Sections (Town and country planning: Amendment of the Town and Country

 

Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007, Town and

 

country planning: responsibilities of housing authorities, and Town and country


 
 

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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, continued

 
 

planning: offences) come into force two months after the day on which this Act

 

is passed.

 

(2)    

Sections (Town and country planning: Amendment of the Town and Country

 

Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007, Town and

 

country planning: responsibilities of housing authorities, and Town and country

 

planning: offences) extend to England only.’.

 


 
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