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(7C)	The public may obtain paper and electronically recorded copies of the application

for no more than the cost of copying the material.’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

266

Clause  50,  page  26,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(8A)

The deadline referred to in subsection (8) shall be not less than 28 days from the

first publication of notice of the application.’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

267

Clause  82,  page  38,  line  20,  after ‘written’, insert ‘and oral’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment shifts the consideration by the commission from a primarily written exercise to

include oral representations and site visit.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

268

Clause  82,  page  38,  line  20,  at end insert ‘and the carrying out of a site visit’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See explanatory statement to amendment 267.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

269

Clause  83,  page  38,  line  42,  after ‘representations’, insert ‘whether personally, or

by its counsel, solicitor or agent’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

270

Clause  83,  page  38,  line  42,  at end insert ‘and to call and to cross-examine

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witnesses’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

271

Clause  84,  page  39,  line  12,  after ‘representations’, insert ‘whether personally, or

by its counsel, solicitor or agent’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment establishes a right to be represented at hearings.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

272

Clause  84,  page  39,  line  12,  at end add ‘and to call and to cross-examine

witnesses’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment allows a person at the open-floor hearings to call and cross-examine witnesses.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

273

Clause  85,  page  39,  leave out lines 23 to 25.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

274

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  43,  leave out ‘exceptionally’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

275

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  44,  leave out ‘necessary’ and insert ‘appropriate’.

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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

276

Clause  87,  page  40,  line  45,  at end insert ‘and’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

277

Clause  87,  page  41,  line  3,  leave out from ‘application’ to end of line 5.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

278

Clause  92,  page  42,  line  17,  at end insert—

‘(aa)

the person has an interest in land to which the application relates,’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

279

Clause  92,  page  43,  line  9,  at end insert—

‘(ea)

a parish or town council in England, or a community council in Wales,’.

Mr Clive Betts

280

Clause  5,  page  2,  line  40,  at end insert ‘, and

(c)	has been subject to Parliamentary consideration in accordance with

section [Parliamentary consideration of national policy statements], and

(d)	has been laid before, and approved by, a resolution of each House of

Parliament.’.

Parliamentary consideration of national policy statements

Mr Clive Betts

NC6

To move the following Clause:—

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‘(1)	The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament a draft of a statement which the

Secretary of State proposes to designate as a national policy statement for the

purposes of this Act.

(2)	The Secretary of State may not lay a national policy statement before Parliament

under section 5(1)(d) until after the expiry of the period of Parliamentary

consideration of the draft of that statement, as defined by subsection (3).

(3)	The period for Parliamentary consideration of a draft national policy statement

means the period of 60 days beginning on the day on which it was laid before

Parliament.

(4)	In reckoning the period of 60 days referred to in subsection (4), no account shall

be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during

which either House is adjourned for more than four days.

(5)	In preparing a national policy statement under section 5 following the laying of a

draft of that statement under subsection (1) of this section, the Secretary of State

concerned shall have regard to any representations made during the period for

Parliamentary consideration and, in particular, to any resolution or report of, or

of any committee of, either House of Parliament with regard to the document.

(6)	Together with a national policy statement laid before Parliament under section

5(d), the Secretary of State concerned shall lay a statement giving details of—

(a)	any representations, resolution or report falling within subsection (5);

and

(b)	the changes (if any) which, in the light of any such representations,

resolution or report, the Secretary of State has made to the draft of the

statement laid before Parliament under subsection (1).’.

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