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Amendments proposed to the Greater London Authority Bill - continued	House of Commons

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Companies in which local authorities have interests

Mr Nick Raynsford

NC15

To move the following Clause:—

'.—(1) In Part V of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (companies in which local authorities have interests) section 67 (application of, and orders under, the Part) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3) (which specifies the bodies which are local authorities for the purposes of the Part) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

"(bb) the Greater London Authority;

(bc) a functional body, within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;".'.

Greater London Regional Health Authority

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

'.—(1) There shall be a body corporate to be known as the Greater London Regional Health Authority.

(2) The Greater London Regional Health Authority shall have the functions conferred or imposed on it by this or any other Act, or made exercisable by it under this Act, and any reference in this Act to the functions of the Greater London Regional Health Authority includes a reference to any functions made exercisable by this Act.

(3) The Greater London Regional Health Authority shall exercise its functions—

(a) in accordance with such guidance or directions as may be issued to it by the Mayor under section ( ) below,

(b) for the purpose of facilitating the discharge by the Authority of the duties under this Act, and

(4) The Authority may issue to the Greater London Regional Health Authority

(a) guidance as to the manner in which it exercises its functions,

(b) general instructions as to the manner in which it is to exercise its functions, or

Report on health impact of strategies

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

NC13

To move the following Clause:—

'( ) The Mayor shall produce and publish reports of the impact on the health of persons in Greater London of the strategies set out in subsection 33(1).'.

Equality of opportunity

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

NC19

To move the following Clause:—

'(1) The Authority shall make appropriate arrangements with a view to securing that its functions are exercised with due regard to the principle that there should be equality of opportunity for all people.

(2) After each financial year the Authority shall publish a report containing—

(a) a statement of the arrangements made in pursuance of subsection (1) which had effect during that financial year, and

(b) an assessment of how effective those arrangements were in promoting equality of opportunity.'.

EU Committee of the Regions

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

NC20

To move the following Clause:—

'The Assembly shall elect two of its members to be amongst the representatives from Greater London to be included in the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.'.

Private bills

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

NC21

To move the following Clause:—

'(1) The Authority may promote private bills in Parliament and may oppose any private bill in Parliament.

(2) But the Authority shall not promote or oppose any private bill in Parliament unless a motion to authorise the Authority to promote or oppose the bill is passed by the Assembly on a vote at least two-thirds of the Assembly members voting support the motion.

(3) Subsection (1) shall not cause the Authority to have power to apply for orders under section 1 or 3 of the Transport Works Act 1992 by virtue of section 20 of that Act (which gives a body with power to promote and oppose private bills power to apply for and object to such orders).'.

Mr Nick Raynsford

312

Clause 272, page 136, line 29, at end insert—

'any provision contained in Chapters I to IV or VI of Part III of this Act;'.

Mr Nick Raynsford

883

Schedule 21, page 237, line 13, at end insert—

'1992 c. xvi.

The London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Act 1992.

The whole Act.'

Mr Nick Raynsford

313

Schedule 21, page 243, column 3, leave out lines 11 to 13.

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

Clause 276, page 137, line 25, leave out 'or'.

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

Clause 276, page 137, line 26, at end insert 'or

(e) the Greater London Regional Health Authority.'.

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Edward Davey

866

Clause 277, page 138, line 24, leave out 'wich' and insert 'which'.

Mr Nick Raynsford

810

Clause 277, page 138, line 26, at end insert—

'(2A) Sections (Meaning and effect of PPP administration orders), (PPP administration orders made on special petitions), (Restriction on making winding-up order), (Restrictions on voluntary winding-up etc) and ("Company", unregistered, foreign etc) above and Schedules (PPP administration orders) and (Transfer of relevant activities in connection with PPP administration orders) to this Act shall not come into force until London Underground Limited has become a subsidiary of Transport for London.'.

GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY BILL (PROGRAMME)

Greater London Authority (Programme),—Ordered, That the following provisions shall apply to the Greater London Authority Bill—

Committee of the whole House

1. Proceedings in Committee of the whole House on Clauses 1 to 4 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, the Bill shall be completed in two allotted days and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at Ten o'clock on the second day.

Standing Committee

2. Proceedings in the Standing Committee to which the remainder of the Bill is committed shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 12.50 p.m. on 30th March 1999.

Business Committee

3. Standing Order No. 82 (Business Committee) shall not apply to proceedings on the Bill.

Business Sub-Committee

4. Resolutions of the Business Sub-Committee may include alterations in the order in which Clauses, Schedules, new Clauses and new Schedules are taken in the Standing Committee.

Procedure in Standing Committee

5. At a sitting of the Standing Committee at which any proceedings on the Bill are to be brought to a conclusion in accordance with this Order or a Resolution of the Business Sub-Committee, the Chairman shall not adjourn the Committee under any Order relating to the sittings of the Committee until the proceedings have been brought to a conclusion.

Conclusion of proceedings

6. For the purpose of concluding any proceedings which are to be brought to a conclusion at a time appointed by or under this Order—

(1) The Chairman or Speaker shall put forthwith the following Questions (but no others)—

(a) any Question already proposed from the Chair;

(b) any Question necessary to bring to a decision a Question so proposed (including in the case of a new Clause or Schedule which has been read a second time, the Question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill);

(d) any other Question necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded.

(2) Proceedings under sub-paragraph (1) shall not be interrupted under any Standing Order relating to sittings of the House and may be decided, though opposed, at any hour.

(3) If, apart from this sub-paragraph, two or more Questions would fall to be put by the Chairman under sub-paragraph (1)(d) in relation to a series of Clauses or Schedules to which no notice of amendment has been given by a Minister of the Crown, the Chairman shall instead put a single question in relation to those Clauses and Schedules.

(4) On a Motion made for a new Clause or a new Schedule, the Chairman or Speaker shall put only the question that the Clause or Schedule be added to the Bill.

Supplementary provisions

7. In this Order "allotted day" means any day on which the Bill is put down on the main business as first Government Order of the Day.

8. If any Motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to amend this Order so as to provide a greater amount of time for proceedings on the Bill under paragraph 1 or 2 of this Order, the Question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided, though opposed, at any hour.

9. If any Motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to supplement the provisions of this Order in respect of proceedings on Consideration or Third Reading or on any Lords Amendments or any subsequent Message from the Lords relating to the Bill, the Motion may be proceeded with, though opposed, at any hour and the proceedings, if not previously concluded, shall be brought to a conclusion three-quarters of an hour after they have been commenced.—(Mr Graham Allen.)

RESOLUTION OF BUSINESS SUB-COMMITTEE

That, except as may be otherwise provided by a Resolution of this Sub-Committee as agreed to by the Standing Committee and subject to the Order [13th January]—

(a) 27 sittings in all shall be allocated to the consideration of the Greater London Authority Bill by the Standing Committee;

(b) the proceedings to be taken at each sitting shall be as shown in the second column of the table and shall be taken in the order so shown;

(c) the proceedings which under this Resolution are to be taken on any sitting shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the third column of the table.

table

Sitting
Proceedings
Time for
conclusion
of proceedings

1st to 8th Clauses 5 to 17, Schedule 3, Clauses 18 to 24, New Clauses relating to Part I, New Schedules relating to Part I, Clauses 25 to 30, Schedule 4, Clauses 31 to 66, New Clauses relating to Part II, New Schedules relating to Part II, Clauses 67 to 72, Schedule 5, Clauses 73 to 83, Schedule 6, Clauses 84 to 117, Schedule 7, Clauses 118 to 121, New Clauses relating to Part III and New Schedules relating to Part III 6.50 p.m.

9th to 17th Clauses 122 to 132, Schedule 8, Clauses 133 to 135, Schedule 9, Clauses 136 to 167, Schedule 10, New Clauses relating to Chapters I to VI of Part IV, New Schedules relating to Chapters I to VI of Part IV, Clauses 168 to 172, Schedule 11, Clauses 173 to 175, Schedule 12, Clauses 176 and 177, New Clauses relating to Chapters VII to X of Part IV, New Schedules relating to Chapters VII to X of Part IV, Clauses 178 to 200, Schedule 13, Clause 201, Schedule 14, remaining New Clauses relating to Part IV and remaining New Schedules relating to Part IV 6.50 p.m.

18th to 27th Clauses 202 to 206, Schedule 15, New Clauses relating to Part V, New Schedules relating to Part V, Clause 207, Schedule 16, Clauses 208 to 219, Schedule 17, New Clauses relating to Part VI, New Schedules relating to Part VI, Clause 220, Schedules 18 and 19, Clauses 221 to 225, New Clauses relating to Part VII, New Schedules relating to Part VII, Clauses 226 to 241, New Clauses relating to Part VIII, New Schedules relating to Part VIII, Clauses 242 to 260, New Clauses relating to Part IX, New Schedules relating to Part IX, Clause 261, Schedule 20, Clause 262, New Clauses relating to Part X, New Schedules relating to Part X, Clauses 263 to 271, remaining New Clauses, remaining New Schedules, Clauses 272 to 275, Schedule 21 and Clauses 276 and 277. 12.50 p.m.




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