Amendments proposed to the Housing Bill - continued House of Commons

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Mr Keith Hill

104

Schedule     2,     page     151,     leave out line 26.

   

Mr Keith Hill

105

Schedule     2,     page     151,     line     27,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

106

Schedule     2,     page     151,     line     33,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

107

Schedule     2,     page     151,     line     42,     leave out 'judge' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

108

Schedule     2,     page     151,     line     43,     leave out 'his judgment' and insert 'its decision'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

109

Schedule     2,     page     152,     line     2,     leave out 'county court' and insert 'residential property tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

110

Schedule     2,     page     152,     line     5,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

111

Schedule     2,     page     152,     line     8,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

112

Schedule     2,     page     152,     line     16,     leave out 'Court of Appeal' and insert 'Lands Tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

113

Schedule     2,     page     152,     line     19,     leave out 'Court of Appeal' and insert 'Lands Tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

114

Schedule     2,     page     152,     line     42,     leave out 'Court of Appeal' and insert 'Lands Tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

115

Schedule     2,     page     153,     line     1,     leave out 'Court of Appeal' and insert 'Lands Tribunal'.


   

Mr Keith Hill

29

Clause     28,     page     19,     line     8,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

195

Clause     28,     page     19,     line     17,     leave out 'reasonable' and insert 'genuinely adequate'.


   

Mr Keith Hill

20

Schedule     3,     page     154,     line     19,     at end insert—

    '(3A) Any person authorised in writing by the authority may enter any part of the specified premises for the purposes of the taking of any action which the authority are authorised to take under this paragraph.

    (3B) The right of entry conferred by sub-paragraph (3A) may be exercised at any reasonable time.

    (3C) Any reference in this Part of this Schedule (of whatever nature) to a local housing authority entering any premises under this paragraph is a reference to their doing so in accordance with sub-paragraph (3A).'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

116

Schedule     3,     page     156,     line     5,     leave out 'of a court on appeal, recoverable under an order of the court' and insert 'given by a residential property tribunal on an appeal to the tribunal under paragraph 11, recoverable under an order of the tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

117

Schedule     3,     page     156,     line     21,     leave out 'county court' and insert 'residential property tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

118

Schedule     3,     page     156,     line     23,     at end insert—

    '(2A) A residential property tribunal may allow an appeal to be made to it after the end of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) if it is satisfied that there is a good reason for the failure to appeal before the end of that period (and for any delay since then in applying for permission to appeal out of time).'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

119

Schedule     3,     page     156,     line     30,     leave out 'court' and insert ' tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

120

Schedule     3,     page     156,     line     35,     leave out 'Court of Appeal' and insert 'Lands Tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

121

Schedule     3,     page     156,     line     38,     leave out 'Court of Appeal' and insert 'Lands Tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

122

Schedule     3,     page     158,     line     2,     leave out 'county court' and insert 'residential property tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

123

Schedule     3,     page     158,     line     3,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

124

Schedule     3,     page     158,     line     12,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

125

Schedule     3,     page     158,     line     14,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.


   

Mr Keith Hill

30

Clause     32,     page     20,     line     13,     leave out 'county court' and insert 'residential property tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

31

Clause     32,     page     20,     line     15,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

32

Clause     32,     page     20,     line     17,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

33

Clause     32,     page     20,     line     20,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

34

Clause     32,     page     20,     line     24,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.


   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

196

Clause     33,     page     21,     line     12,     leave out 'reasonable excuse' and insert 'genuinely adequate reason'.


   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

197

Clause     38,     page     24,     line     29,     leave out (a).

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

198

Clause     38,     page     24,     line     39,     leave out 'certain'.

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

203

Clause     38,     page     24,     line     39,     after 'circumstances', insert 'specified by the appropriate national authority'.


   

Mr Keith Hill

11

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     3,     at end insert—

      '(ca)  taking emergency remedial action under section (Emergency remedial action);

      (cb) making an emergency prohibition order under section (Emergency prohibition orders); or'.

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

199

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     8,     after 'notice,', insert 'in the event of a notice actually being served'.

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

200

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     9,     after 'notice,', insert 'in the event of a notice actually being served'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

12

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     10,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   The expenses are, in the case of emergency remedial action under section (Emergency remedial action), the expenses incurred in—

      (a) determining whether to take such action, and

      (b) serving the notice required by subsection (7) of that section.'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

13

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     12,     after first 'Act', insert ', an emergency prohibition order under section (Emergency prohibition orders)'.

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

201

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     14,     after 'order,', insert 'in the event of a notice actually being served'.

   

Mr John Hayes
Mr Robert Syms [R]
Mr Mark Field

202

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     18,     after '24,', insert 'in the event of a notice actually being served'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

35

Clause     40,     page     26,     line     22,     leave out 'court' and insert 'tribunal'.


   

Mr Keith Hill

14

Clause     41,     page     26,     line     32,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   In the case of emergency remedial action under section (Emergency remedial action), the charge may be recovered from the person served with the notice required by subsection (7) of that section.'.

   

Mr Keith Hill

15

Clause     41,     page     26,     line     34,     leave out second 'or' and insert—

      '(aa) an emergency prohibition order under section (Emergency prohibition orders), or'.


   

Mr Keith Hill

36

Clause     43,     page     28,     line     14,     at end insert—

'Residential property tribunalSection (Residential property tribunals)'.


NEW CLAUSES RELATING TO PART 1

Consultation with fire authorities in certain cases

   

Mr Keith Hill

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   This section applies where a local housing authority—

      (a) are satisfied that a prescribed fire hazard exists in an HMO or in any common parts of a building containing one or more flats, and

      (b) intend to take in relation to the hazard one of the kinds of enforcement action listed in section 5(2) or section 7(2).

    (2)   Before taking the enforcement action in question, the authority must consult the fire authority for the area in which the HMO or building is situated.

    (3)   In the case of any proposed emergency measures, the authority's duty under subsection (2) is a duty to consult that fire authority so far as it is practicable to do so before taking those measures.

    (4)   In this section—

"emergency measures" means emergency remedial action under section (Emergency remedial action) or an emergency prohibition order under section Emergency prohibition orders);"fire authority" means—

      (a) a fire authority constituted by a combination scheme under the Fire Services Act 1947 (c.41);

      (b) a metropolitan county fire and defence authority;

      (c) the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority; or

      (d) a county council acting as the fire authority for its area under section 4 of the Fire Services Act 1947 (c.41);

"prescribed fire hazard" means a Category 1 or 2 hazard which is prescribed as a fire hazard for the purposes of this section by regulations under section 2.'.

 
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