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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Thursday 21st June 2007

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

1371-72 and 1373

Consideration of Bill

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Concessionary Bus Travel Bill [Lords], As Amended

Local authority funding

Stephen Hammond

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘At the end of each financial year after the commencement of this Act the

Secretary of State shall lay a report before Parliament setting out—

(a)	the total sum of funds made available to local authorities for the purposes

of providing bus services and concessionary fares thereon in the financial

year just ended;

(b)	the method by which those funds have been made available.’.

Review of reimbursement arrangements

Stephen Hammond

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘Two years after the commencement of this Act the Secretary of State shall

conduct a review of arrangements for allocating funding to local authorities

necessary for the reimbursement of operators under section 3(2) of this Act; and

shall lay before Parliament a report setting out his findings.’.

Stephen Hammond

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Page  2,  line  14  [Clause  1],  at end insert—

‘(4A)

For the purposes of this section a disabled person is a person who—

(a)	is blind or partially sighted,

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(b)	is profoundly or severely deaf,

(c)	is without speech,

(d)	has a disability, or has suffered an injury, which has a substantial and

long-term adverse effect on his ability to walk,

(e)	does not have arms or has long-term loss of both arms,

(f)	has a learning disability, that is, a state of arrested or incomplete

development of mind which includes significant impairment of

intelligence and social functioning, or

(g)	would be defined as having a mental impairment which has a substantial

and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out day-to-day

activities in accordance with section 1 of the Disability Discrimination

Act 1995 as amended, or

(h)	would, if he applied for the grant of a licence to drive a motor vehicle

under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988, have his application refused

pursuant to section 92 of that Act (physical fitness) otherwise than on the

ground of persistent misuse of drugs or alcohol,’.

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Revised 22 June 2007