Standing Orders of the House of Commons - Private Business 2000

Arrangement of Clauses (Contents)

Appendix A

[Form referred to in Standing Orders 13 and 61]

Form of notice to owners, etc.

No. ..........

Sir,

[Short title of bill]

  We beg to inform you that application [has been] [is intended to be] made to Parliament in the [present] [ensuing] session for leave to introduce this bill.

  We understand that your interest in the property mentioned in the annexed schedule is as stated in Part(s) I [& II] thereof. If the bill passes into law, the property mentioned in Part I of the schedule, or a right to use the same, will be liable to be acquired compulsorily under the powers of the Act [and the property mentioned in Part II of the annexed schedule will be liable to the imposition of an improvement charge].

  A plan [and section] relating to the purposes of the bill, with a book of reference thereto, [was] [were] [will be on or before 20th November next] deposited for public inspection with the [here insert the officers of the local authorities with whom deposit is required by the standing orders]. A copy of so much of the said plan [and section] as relates to the [parish or other area in accordance with the terms of Standing Order 36] in which the property in which you are interested is situate, with a book of reference thereto, [has been] [will be on or before 20th November next] deposited for public inspection with the [officer mentioned in the said order], on which plan the said property is designated by the number or numbers in the annexed schedule.

  If the annexed schedule contains any error or misdescription will you kindly inform us at your earliest convenience?

  Copies of the bill or the relevant parts thereof [have been] [will be on or before 4th December next] deposited for public inspection and for sale at the [here insert the several offices at which deposits have been or are to be made in accordance with Standing Order 4A].

  [We also beg to inform you that it is intended that the bill shall provide that, notwithstanding section 92 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 you may be required to sell and convey a part only of your property, numbered......... on the deposited plan.]

  [We also beg to inform you that it is intended that the bill shall exclude section 92 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, and shall substitute therefor a provision restricting the power of acquiring compulsorily a part only of a house, building or manufactory to cases where the part can be taken without material detriment to the house, building or manufactory and restricting the power of acquiring compulsorily a part only of a park or garden belonging to a house to cases where the part can be taken without seriously affecting the amenity or convenience of the house.]

  Objection to the bill may be made by depositing a petition against it. We shall be pleased, on receiving from you a request in writing, to inform you of the latest date on which you may deposit a petition in either House. For your present information, the latest date for depositing a petition against the bill [in the first House is 6th February, if the first House is the House of Lords, or 30th January, if the first House is the House of Commons. The latest date for depositing a petition against the bill in the second House is the tenth day after that on which the bill receives its first reading in that House][1]. If this date is a Sunday, Christmas Day, or a bank holiday, or a day on which the House does not sit, the final date for depositing may be postponed.

  Copies of the standing orders of both Houses of Parliament relating to the time and mode of presenting petitions in opposition to bills are annexed hereto.

We are, Sir,

Your most obedient servants,

To.............







1   If the bill is a late bill, substitute for the words in brackets "in either House is the tenth day after that on which the bill receives its first reading in that House". Back


 
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