Amendments proposed to the Access to Justice Bill [Lords] - continued House of Commons

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Mr Geoffrey Hoon

218

Clause     65,     page     39,     line     31,     leave out '56' and insert '59D and the heading after that section (inserted by section 64 above)'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

219

Clause     65,     page     39,     line     32,     leave out '56A' and insert '59E'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

220

Clause     65,     page     39,     line     36,     after '55(1)' insert 'or 59A(1)'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

221

Clause     65,     page     40,     line     11,     leave out '56A(2)' and insert '59E(2)'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

222

Clause     65,     page     40,     line     19,     leave out '56A' and insert '59E'.


   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

38

Schedule     11,     page     107,     line     43,     at end insert—

    '( ) To the extent that that duty has effect as a duty of the Lord Chancellor he shall comply with it by making payments to persons or bodies in respect of the provision of representation by them; and, accordingly, references in this Act and any other enactment to representation (or services) funded by the Commission as part of the Criminal Defence Service include representation funded by the Lord Chancellor under this sub-paragraph.

    ( ) The Lord Chancellor shall by order made by statutory instrument make provision about such payments (including provision for reviews of, or appeals against, determinations required for the purposes of the order); and subsections (2) and (3) of section 25 of this Act shall apply to it (as if it were a remuneration order as defined by subsection (4) of that section).'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

169

Schedule     11,     page     110,     line     40,     at end insert—

'Youth courts

    26A.—(1) Subject to any order under paragraph 6 of the Second Schedule to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (as amended by this Act), there shall from the coming into force of section (Constitution of youth courts) of this Act be a combined youth court panel for the area consisting of the inner London boroughs and the City of London (in spite of paragraph 3 of that Schedule).

    (2) If section (Constitution of youth courts) of this Act comes into force before section 64 of this Act, then until section 64 comes into force paragraph 9 of the Second Schedule to the Children and Young Persons Act (as amended by this Act) shall not prevent there being a combined youth panel for the City of London and any other area.'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

223

Schedule     11,     page     112,     leave out line 5.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

224

Schedule     11,     page     112,     line     6,     after 'liabilities' insert 'and to exercise any function'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

225

Schedule     11,     page     112,     line     9,     at end insert—

'Schemes for transfer of property to GLMCA

    30A.—(1) The Lord Chancellor may make one or more schemes for the transfer to the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority of such of the property, rights and liabilities of—

      (a) a magistrates' courts committee,

      (b) the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District,

      (c) the council of an outer London borough, or

      (d) the Common Council of the City of London,

    as appear to him to be appropriate to be transferred for the performance of the Authority's functions.

    (2) In this paragraph, references to the "transferor", in relation to a scheme, are to the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) from whom property is transferred under the scheme.

    (3) A scheme under this paragraph may—

      (a) provide for transfers under the scheme to be on such terms (including terms requiring payment to the transferor) as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit,

      (b) apportion or create rights and liabilities in relation to any property transferred, and

      (c) make any appropriate, consequential, incidental or supplementary provisions.

    (4) On the day appointed by a scheme, the property, rights and liabilities which are the subject of the scheme shall, by virtue of this sub-paragraph, and in spite of any provision (of whatever nature) which would otherwise prevent or restrict the transfer, be transferred in accordance with the scheme.

    (5) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the transferor before the time when a scheme comes into effect for the purposes of, or in connection with, anything transferred under the scheme shall, so far as is required for continuing its effect after that time, have effect as if done by or in relation to the Authority.

    (6) Any reference to the transferor in any document, including any enactment, constituting or relating to anything transferred under a scheme shall, so far as is required for giving effect to the scheme, be construed as a reference to the Authority.

    (7) Where rights and liabilities under a contract of employment are transferred under a scheme under this paragraph—

      (a) for the purposes of Part XI of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (redundancy payments etc.), the employee shall not be regarded as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer, and

      (b) for the purposes of that Act, the employee's period of employment with the transferor shall count as a period of employment with the Authority, and the change of employment shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.

Continuing provision of court-houses, accommodation etc

    30B.—(1) The Lord Chancellor may by regulations provide that any petty sessional court-house or other accommodation specified in the regulations which immediately before the time when paragraph 30A comes into force was provided by—

      (a) the council of an outer London borough, or

      (b) the Common Council of the City of London,

    pursuant to section 55 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (and is not transferred under a scheme under paragraph 30A) shall after that time be provided by that council to the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority for the performance of the functions referred to in section 59A(1) of that Act.

    (2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may—

      (a) prescribe terms and conditions, including conditions as to payment, on which any court-house or other accommodation is to be provided, and

      (b) prohibit a council providing a court-house or other accommodation under sub-paragraph (1) from altering or extending it without the consent of the Lord Chancellor.

    (3) Any duty imposed on a council by regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may at any time be—

      (a) varied or restricted by agreement between the council and the Lord Chancellor, or

      (b) terminated by the Lord Chancellor after consulting the council.

    (4) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

170

Schedule     11,     page     112,     leave out lines 20 to 24.


   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

115

Schedule     12,     page     112,     line     35,     at end insert—

     

'1973 c. 62.

     

The Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973.

     

In section 21(2), the words from ", and in subsection" to the end.

     

1974 c. 47.

     

The Solicitors Act 1974.

     

In section 47, in subsection (2C), the words "excluding any person from legal aid work", in subsection (2D), the words "from such work" and subsection (6).'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

116

Schedule     12,     page     112,     line     45,     at end insert—

     

'1982 c. 48.

     

The Criminal Justice Act 1982.

     

In section 3(2), the words from ", and in subsection" to the end.'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

117

Schedule     12,     page     113,     column     3,     leave out line 3 and insert—

     

     

     

'In section 42, in subsection (3), the words "from such work" and subsection (4)(b) and the preceding "and".

Section 43(4).

Section 44(4).'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

118

Schedule     12,     page     113,     line     11,     column     3,     after '18,' insert '19(b) and the preceding "and",'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

119

Schedule     12,     page     114,     line     14,     at end insert—

     

'1999 c. 00.

     

The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.

     

Section 39(2).'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

226

Schedule     12,     page     114,     line     21,     at end insert—

     

'1974 c. 47.

     

The Solicitors Act 1974.

     

In section 44(2), the words from "and that order" to the end of paragraph (b).

In section 87(1), in the definition of "building society", the words "; and a reference to an account with a building society is a reference to a deposit account".'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

227

Schedule     12,     page     114,     line     36,     column     3,     at end insert 'In Schedule 2, in paragraph 11(2), the words from the beginning to "those provisions,".'.

   

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

171

Schedule     12,     page     116,     line     12,     at end insert—

     

'1996 c. 25.

     

The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.'.'

     

Section 13(1)(cc)

 
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