S.C.A.
NOTICES OF AMENDMENTS
given up to and including
Tuesday 16th May 2000
STANDING COMMITTEE A
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL [LORDS]
NOTE
The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the Committee [2nd May], as follows:
Clauses 1 to 8, new Clauses relating to Part I, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 9 to 22, Schedule 1, Clauses 23 to 38, Schedule 2, Clauses 39 to 44, new Clauses relating to Part II, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 88 to 90, Clauses 45 to 52, Clause 75, Clause 53, Schedule 3, Clauses 54 to 74, Clauses 76 and 77, new Clauses relating to Part III, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 84 and 85, Clauses 78 to 83, new Clauses relating to Part IV, new Schedules so relating, Clauses 86 and 87, Clauses 91 to 94, Schedules 4 and 5, Clauses 95 and 96, remaining new Clauses, remaining new Schedules.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
81
Clause 13, page 9, line 12, at end insert, 'or
(v) by a committee of the authority'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
82
Clause 14, page 9, line 42, at end insert, 'or
(v) a committee of the authority'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
54
Clause 14, page 10, leave out line 4.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
55
Clause 14, page 10, line 7, leave out 'another member' and insert 'other members'.
Hilary Armstrong
127
Clause 14, page 10, line 27, leave out second 'executive'.
Hilary Armstrong
128
Clause 15, page 10, line 39, leave out 'executive' and insert 'council manager'.
Hilary Armstrong
129
Clause 15, page 10, line 42, leave out 'council manager' and insert 'executive'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
83
Clause 15, page 10, line 43, at end insert, 'or
(iii) by a committee of the authority'.
Hilary Armstrong
130
Clause 15, page 10, line 43, at end insert—
'( ) In deciding—
(a) whether or how to exercise any functions, or
(b) whether to arrange for any functions to be discharged by the executive or an officer of the authority,
the council manager must have regard to any advice given by the elected mayor.'.
Hilary Armstrong
131
Clause 15, page 10, line 45, leave out first 'council manager' and insert 'executive'.
Hilary Armstrong
132
Clause 15, page 10, line 45, leave out second 'council manager' and insert 'executive'.
Hilary Armstrong
133
Clause 15, page 11, line 1, leave out 'an executive or council manager' and insert 'a council manager or executive'.
Hilary Armstrong
134
Clause 15, page 11, line 2, leave out 'a council manager' and insert 'an executive'.
Hilary Armstrong
135
Clause 15, page 11, line 3, leave out 'executive or council manager' and insert 'council manager or executive'.
Mr Don Foster
Mr Adrian Sanders
285
Clause 17, page 11, line 17, leave out 'an executive of'.
Mr Don Foster
Mr Adrian Sanders
286
Clause 17, page 11, line 17, leave out 'or a committee or specified member of such an executive'.
Hilary Armstrong
136
Clause 17, page 11, line 26, after second 'committee' insert 'or sub-committee'.
Hilary Armstrong
137
Clause 17, page 11, line 27, leave out from 'authority' to end of line 29 and insert 'established to discharge functions in respect of part of the area of the authority and in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied—
(a) the area of that part does not exceed two-fifths of the total area of the authority,
(b) the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed two-fifths of the total population of the area of the authority as so estimated, and
(c) the members of the committee or sub-committee who are members of the authority have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which fall wholly or partly within that part,'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
56
Clause 17, page 11, line 28, leave out 'and which satisfies other conditions as may be specified,'.
Hilary Armstrong
138
Clause 18, page 12, line 2, leave out first 'is' and insert 'are'.
Hilary Armstrong
139
Clause 19, page 12, line 41, after 'section' insert '101(2) or'.
Hilary Armstrong
140
Clause 19, page 12, line 46, after 'section' insert '101(2) or'.
Hilary Armstrong
141
Clause 19, page 13, line 6, at end insert 'committee or'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Mr Tim Loughton
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
271
Clause 20, page 13, leave out lines 13 and 14 and insert 'arrangements for the overview and scrutiny of the executive (such arrangements referred to in this Part as overview and scrutiny arrangements)'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Mr Tim Loughton
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
272
Clause 20, page 13, line 14, at end insert—
'(1A) Overview and scrutiny arrangements may provide for the discharge of functions and the exercise of powers by—
of the authority (in this Part referred to as overview and scrutiny bodies).'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Mr Tim Loughton
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
273
Clause 20, page 13, leave out lines 16 and 17 and insert 'arrangements make provision so that the powers of overview and scrutiny bodies include powers, between them.'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
57
Clause 20, page 13, line 18, leave out 'or other action taken,'and insert 'prior to their enactment,'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
19
Clause 20, page 13, line 32, at end insert—
'(f) to advise the executive on the future discharge of its executive functions.'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Mr Tim Loughton
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
242
Clause 20, page 13, line 32, at end insert—
'(f) to require that the implementation of any such decision as is referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection is deferred until a decision has been made whether or not to exercise the power conferred by subsection(3).'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Mr Tim Loughton
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
274
Clause 20, page 13, line 33, leave out 'committee' and insert 'body'.
Mr Don Foster
Mr Adrian Sanders
287
Clause 20, page 13, line 39, at end insert—
'( ) Unless the matter is certified by the authority's monitoring officer to be urgent, no decision by an executive, a member of an executive or a committee of an executive, under its executive arrangements, shall be implemented within less than five working days after the decision is published.'.
Hilary Armstrong
142
Clause 20, page 13, line 40, at beginning insert 'Subject to subsection (4A)'.
Mr Nigel Waterson
Mr Tim Loughton
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
275
Clause 20, page 13, line 40, leave out subsection (4).
Mr Nigel Waterson
Sir Paul Beresford
Mr David Curry
Mr Peter Atkinson
Mr Tim Loughton
28
Clause 20, page 13, line 40, leave out 'may not discharge any' and insert 'may by resolution of the authority discharge'.
Hilary Armstrong
143
Clause 20, page 13, line 41, at end insert—
'(4A) If or to the extent that a local authority's function of conducting best value reviews under section 5 of the Local Government Act 1999 is not the responsibility of an executive of the authority, the authority may arrange for their overview and scrutiny committee (or any of their overview and scrutiny committees) to conduct such a review.'.
