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Mr Eric Pickles 41 Clause 5, page 3, line 42, leave out from 'to' to end of line 44 and add 'approval by a resolution of both Houses of Parliament.'.
Steve Webb 17 Clause 5, page 3, line 44, at end insert—'(3A) In carrying out its duties under this Act the Board shall not supply to an employer any information concerning an employee other than the amount of the tax credit.'.
Mr Eric Pickles 39 Clause 5, page 3, line 44, at end insert—'(3A) The Board shall, in consultation with employers who are likely to be paying a tax credit to employees when this section comes into force, publish a Code of Conduct for such employers by 6th April 2000.'.
Steve Webb 16 Clause 5, page 3, leave out line 45 and add—'(4) This section shall not come into force until the Chancellor of the Exchequer has laid before both Houses of Parliament a statement that he is satisfied that employers are likely to be in a position to comply with their obligations under this Act.'.
Mr Eric Pickles 47 *Clause 5, page 3, line 45, at end insert 'except in the case of employers who employ fewer than 21 people when it shall come into force on 6th April 2002.'.
Mr Eric Pickles 46 *Clause 8, page 4, line 29, after 'liable', insert 'both to repay such amount as is fraudulently or negligently so claimed and'.
Steve Webb 18 Clause 8, page 5, line 41, at end add—'(8A) The Treasury shall provide appeal tribunals within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1998 and general and special commissioners with sufficient funds to enable them to determine expeditiously appeals against determinations made under this section.'.
Mr Eric Pickles 45 Clause 10, page 6, line 36, leave out from 'to' to end of line 37 and add 'approval by resolution of both Houses of Parliament.'.
Mrs Jacqui Lait 14 Page 8, line 4, leave out Clause 15.
Mr Eric Pickles 21 Clause 16, page 8, line 31, at end insert, 'including in both cases a childcare tax credit component.'.
NEW CLAUSESHousing costs
Steve Webb NC4 To move the following Clause:—'In section 135 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, there shall be inserted— "(1A) The applicable amount prescribed for a working families tax credit and a disabled person's tax credit shall include an amount for prescribed housing costs".'.
Takeup
Steve Webb NC5 To move the following Clause:—'The Board shall have a duty to inform persons whom it has reasonable grounds for believing may be entitled to a tax credit to submit a claim for it.'.
Transitions from Income Support
Steve Webb NC6 To move the following Clause:—'(1) Where a person who has been in receipt of income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance or housing benefit commences full-time work he shall in prescribed circumstances continue to be entitled to the benefit in question for four weeks after he commences such work. (2) Regulations shall prescribe the meaning of "full-time work" for the purposes of this section.'.
Passported benefits
Steve Webb NC7 To move the following Clause:—'Recipients of a tax credit shall be entitled to the benefits to which claimants of family credit and disability working allowance were entitled under the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1998 as they had effect immediately prior to the coming into force of this Act.'.
Amendment of Children Act 1989
Mrs Jacqui Lait NC8 To move the following Clause:—'Section 71 of the Children Act 1989 shall be amended as follows:
Division of childcare tax credit
Mrs Jacqui Lait NC9 To move the following Clause:—'Where a childcare tax credit is payable as a component of either working families tax credit or disabled person's tax credit in respect of a child or children whose parents do not live together, then that childcare tax credit shall be shared between the parents in proportion to the amount of time, in the course of a year, that each of them looks after the child or children, and any regulations establishing or amending provisions relating to tax credits shall so provide.'.
Super-affirmative procedure
Mr Eric Pickles NC10 *To move the following Clause:—'(1) Any regulations made under this Act, whether by the Board or another person, shall not have effect unless the regulations concerned (for the purposes of this section, "the Regulations") are approved in accordance with this section. (2) The Regulations shall be laid before a committee of the House of Commons constituted for the purpose of considering the Regulations (for the purposes of this section, the "Commons Committee"). (3) The Commons Committee shall consider the Regulations as soon as is reasonably practicable and shall have power to amend, change or alter the Regulations as it sees fit. (4) The Commons Committee shall, following its consideration pursuant to subsection (3) above, present the Regulations to the House of Commons and the Regulations shall come into effect on the date that the Regulations are approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.'.
Payments to be in trust for employees
Mr Eric Pickles NC11 *To move the following Clause:—'(1) In respect of any amount paid by the Board to an employer under this Act in respect of an employee, the employer shall be treated as holding that amount on trust for the employee and the employee shall be treated as being beneficially entitled to that amount. (2) In any case where the employer fails to pay any amount referred to in subsection (1) above to the employee, the employee concerned shall be entitled to take proceedings for the recovery of that amount as a breach of trust.'.
Mr Eric Pickles 11 Schedule 1, page 10, line 6, leave out 'tax'.
Mr Eric Pickles 12 Schedule 1, page 10, line 8, leave out 'tax'.
Mr Eric Pickles 43 Schedule 2, page 13, leave out lines 18 and 19.
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