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Amendments proposed to the Anti-social Behaviour Bill - continued	House of Commons

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Annette Brooke
Simon Hughes
Matthew Green

182

Clause 55, page 40, leave out lines 24 and 25.

NEW CLAUSES RELATING TO PART 7

Removal of unauthorised encampments and waste

Mr James Paice
Mr Nick Hawkins
Mr Mark Francois

NC5

To move the following Clause:—

'.—The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is amended as follows:

In Section 61 (Power to remove trespassers on land)

(a)	For subsection (1) there is substituted—

"(1)

If the senior police office present at the scene reasonably believes that two or more persons are trespassing on land and are present there with the common purpose of residing there for any period and that reasonable steps have been taken by or on behalf of the occupier to ask them to leave he may direct those persons or any of them to leave the land and to remove any vehicles, other property or waste they have with them on the land or which appears to the officer to be connected to their presence on the land.".

(b)	Subsection (2) is omitted.

(c)	In Subsection (4) there is inserted after paragraph (b)—

"(c)	Fails to remove any vehicles, other property or waste which he has with him on the land or which appears to be connected to his presence on the land.".

(d)	In Subsection (6) paragraph (b) is omitted.'.

Graffiti removal notices

Siobhain McDonagh

NC6

To move the following Clause:—

'(1) Where there is graffiti to which this section applies in the area of a local authority on a surface to which this Act applies, if that authority considers it to be detrimental to the amenity of the area or offensive, they may—

(a)	serve a removal notice on the owner of the structure, apparatus or plant which include the surface; or

(b)	if after reasonable inquiry the identity of the owner cannot be ascertained, affix a removal notice to the surface.

(2) A removal notice is a notice requiring the owner to remove or obliterate the graffiti within a period specified in the notice, being not less than 14 days after the service or affixation of the notice.

(3) Subject to the right of appeal mentioned in section 2, if the person required by a removal notice to remove or obliterate graffiti fails to do so within the time limited by the notice, the local authority may themselves remove or obliterate the graffiti and they may recover from the said person the expenses reasonably incurred by them in so doing.

(4) In proceedings by the local authority against the person served with the notice for the recovery of any expenses which the authority are entitled to recover from that person, it shall not be open to that person to raise any question which could have been raised on an appeal under section 2.

(5) Sections 291 and 293 of the Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49) shall have effect as if references therein to that Act included references to this Act.

(6) Graffiti to which this section applies includes any writing, letter, picture, device or representation, other than an advertisement within the meaning of the Act of 1990.'.

Appeals against graffiti removal notices

Siobhain McDonagh

NC7

To move the following Clause:—

'(1) A person on whom a removal notice has been served under section 1(1)(a) above, or the owner of the structure, apparatus or plant which include a surface to which a removal notice has been affixed under section 1(1)(b) above may appeal to a magistrates' court on any of the following grounds—

(a)	that the graffiti is not detrimental to the amenity of the area and is not offensive;

(b)	that there has been some informality, defect or error in, or in connection with, the removal notice;

(c)	in the case of a removal notice under section 1(1)(a) above, that the notice should have been served on another person.

(2) If and in so far as an appeal under this section is based on the ground of some informality, defect or error in, or in connection with, the notice, the court shall dismiss the appeal, if it is satisfied that the informality, defect or error was not a material one.

(3) Where the grounds upon which an appeal under this Act is brought include a ground specified in subsection (1) (c) above, the appellant shall serve a copy of his notice of appeal on each other person referred to in the notice of appeal.'.

Removal of graffiti at request of owner

Siobhain McDonagh

NC8

To move the following new Clause:—

'(1) Where there is graffiti to which this section applies in the area of a local authority on a surface to which this Act applies and the owner of the structure, apparatus or plant which include that surface requests that authority to remove or obliterate that graffiti, the authority may do so and they may recover from the said owner the expenses reasonably incurred by them in so doing.

(2) Graffiti to which this section applies includes any writing, letter, picture, device or representation, and any advertisement within the meaning of the Act of 1990, other than an advertisement for the display of which deemed or express consent has been granted under the Act of 1990 or regulations made thereunder.'.

Interpretation

Siobhain McDonagh

NC9

To move the following Clause:—

'(1) In this section and sections (Graffiti removal notices) (Appeals against graffiti removal notices) (Removal of graffiti at request of owner)—

"the Act of 1990" means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8);

"local authority" means—

(a)	in relation to England, a district council, a county council that is the council for a county in which there are no district councils, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly,

(b)	in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council;

"road" has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27).

(2) A surface to which this section and sections (Graffiti removal notices) (Appeals against graffiti notices) (Removal of graffiti at request of owner) applies is the surface of any structure, apparatus or plant situated in or on any road, where that surface is readily visible from a place to which the public has access.'.

RESOLUTION OF THE PROGRAMMING SUB-COMMITTEE [29th APRIL 2003]

That—

(1) during proceedings on the Anti-social Behaviour Bill the Standing Committee, in addition to its first sitting on Tuesday 6th May at 10.30 a.m., shall meet on that day at 4.30 p.m. and thereafter on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9.10 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.;

(2) 12 sittings shall be allotted to the consideration of the Bill in Committee;

(3) the proceedings shall be taken in the order specified in the Table below;

(4) the proceedings specified in the first column of the Table shall be brought to a conclusion (unless already concluded) at the time specified in the second column of the Table.

TABLE

Proceedings	Time for conclusion of proceedings
Part 1, New Clauses relating to Part 1, New Schedules relating to Part 1	9.55 p.m. at the 2nd sitting
Part 3, New Clauses relating to Part 3, New Schedules relating to Part 3, Part 4, New Clauses relating to Part 4, New Schedules relating to Part 4, Clauses 12 to 14, Schedule 1, Clauses 15 to 17, New Clauses relating to Part 2, New Schedules relating to Part 2	6.55 p.m. at the 6th sitting
Clauses 36 to 39, Schedule 2, Clauses 40 and 41, New Clauses relating to Part 5, New Schedules relating to Part 5, Part 6, New Clauses relating to Part 6, New Schedules relating to Part 6, Clauses 45 to 47	6.55 p.m. at the 10th sitting
Clauses 48 to 55, New Clauses relating to Part 7, New Schedules relating to Part 7, Clause 56, Schedule 3, Clauses 57 to 61, remaining New Clauses, remaining New Schedules, remaining proceedings on the Bill	5.15 p.m. at the 12th sitting

Mr Bob Ainsworth has given notice of his intention to move a motion in the terms of the Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee [Sessional Order C(9) relating to Programming (28th June 2001)].




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