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(c)    

After subsection (7), there is inserted—

 

“(8)    

The Secretary of State shall have a discretion to dismiss an

 

appeal or referral where, having considered the grounds of

 

appeal or referral, the Secretary of State is of the opinion that the

 

appeal or referral—

 

(a)    

is vexatious, frivolous or without substance or

 

foundation, or

 

(b)    

is made with the sole intention of delaying the

 

development or the intention of securing the payment of

 

money, gifts, consideration or other inducement by any

 

person.”’.

 

John Healey

 

536

 

Clause  163,  page  92,  line  36,  after ‘owners’, insert ‘or developers’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment brings developers, as well as owners, within the class of persons potentially liable

 

to CIL.

 

John Healey

 

537

 

Clause  164,  page  93,  line  14,  at end insert—

 

‘(aa)    

a county council, a county borough council, a district council, a London

 

borough council, a metropolitan district council, the Common Council of

 

the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly,’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to enable CIL regulations to empower local authorities (as defined

 

in the amendment) which are not local planning authorities to charge CIL.

 

John Healey

 

538

 

Clause  165,  page  93,  line  29,  after ‘owner’ insert ‘or developer’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 536.

 

John Healey

 

539

 

Clause  165,  page  93,  line  35,  at end insert ‘and’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment paves the way for amendment 542.

 

John Healey

 

540

 

Clause  165,  page  93,  line  38,  leave out ‘called))’ and insert ‘called, and whether

 

general or specific))’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment permits the definition of planning permission in regulations to cover general per­

 

missions or consents for development such as those granted under local development orders made

 

under section 61A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.


 
 

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John Healey

 

541

 

Clause  165,  page  93,  line  38,  leave out ‘and’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment paves the way for amendment 542.

 

John Healey

 

542

 

Clause  165,  page  94,  line  1,  leave out paragraph (c).

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment removes paragraph (c) of clause 165(3) with some of its content being moved to

 

the new subsection (3A) that amendment 544 provides for.

 

John Healey

 

543

 

Clause  165,  page  94,  line  2,  at end insert—

 

    

‘, and

 

(d)    

the time when planning permission first permits development (and the

 

regulations may, in particular, include provision about outline planning

 

permission and provision treating permission as having been given at a

 

particular time in the case of general consents).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to require CIL regulations to define what constitutes the time at

 

which planning permission first permits development for the purposes of CIL liability: in particu­

 

lar, it allows for provision about outline planning permissions (which are approved in stages) and

 

general consents.

 

John Healey

 

544

 

Clause  165,  page  94,  line  2,  at end insert—

 

‘(3A)    

The regulations must include provision for determining which owner or

 

developer is liable in respect of development; and the regulations may, in

 

particular—

 

(a)    

define “owner”;

 

(b)    

define “developer”;

 

(c)    

provide for joint liability (including joint and several liability);

 

(d)    

permit one or more persons to assume sole or joint and several liability;

 

(e)    

permit one or more persons to assume joint and several liability with a

 

person who is liable in accordance with the regulations;

 

(f)    

provide for liability in default of assumed liability;

 

(g)    

provide for transfer of liability (assumed or otherwise);

 

(h)    

make provision about notices.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment requires CIL regulations to make provision for identifying which owner or devel­

 

oper will be liable to pay CIL: in particular, it enables definitions of ‘owner’ and ‘developer’, the

 

imposition of joint and several liability and the transfer or assumption of liability.

 

John Healey

 

545

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  16,  at end insert ‘(which may include provision for

 

consultation, for the appointment of an independent person or a combination).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to ensure that CIL regulations may include provision for consulta­


 
 

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tion, and for examination by an independent person, in connection with setting or revising CIL

 

rates or criteria.

 

John Healey

 

546

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  16,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The regulations may permit or require charging authorities, in setting or revising

 

rates or other criteria—

 

(a)    

to have regard, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, to actual or expected costs of infrastructure (whether by

 

reference to lists prepared by virtue of section 167(3)(a) or otherwise);

 

(b)    

to have regard, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, to actual or expected increase in value arising from planning

 

permission (calculated in accordance with the regulations);

 

(c)    

to have regard, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, to actual or expected administrative expenses in connection

 

with CIL;

 

(d)    

to have regard, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, to values used or documents produced for other statutory

 

purposes;

 

(e)    

to integrate the process, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, with processes undertaken for other statutory purposes;

 

(f)    

to present the rates or other criteria in the form of a document (a

 

“charging schedule”);

 

(g)    

to produce charging schedules having effect in relation to specified

 

periods (subject to revision).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to provide regulation-making power to permit or require charging

 

authorities to have regard to (amongst other things) the costs of developing infrastructure, in­

 

creases in land value, and, administrative costs in setting CIL rates and criteria and to require

 

these rates to be presented in a charging schedule.

 

John Healey

 

547

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  17,  leave out ‘authorities’ and insert ‘schedules’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This effect of this amendment is to provide a power for CIL regulations to permit or require charg­

 

ing schedules (see amendment 546) to adopt specified methods or criteria for calculating the rate

 

of CIL.

 

John Healey

 

548

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  20,  leave out ‘calculation’ and insert ‘charging schedules

 

to operate’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 547.

 

John Healey

 

549

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(aa)    

permit or require charging schedules to operate by reference to any

 

measurement of the amount or nature of development (whether by

 

reference to measurements of floor space, to numbers or intended uses of


 
 

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buildings, to numbers or intended uses of units within buildings, to

 

allocation of space within buildings or units, to values or expected values

 

or in any other way);

 

(ab)    

permit or require charging schedules to operate by reference to the nature

 

or existing use of the place where development is undertaken;’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment sets out examples of the ways in which the charging schedule (provided for in

 

amendment 546) might operate.

 

John Healey

 

550

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  22,  leave out paragraph (b).

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 546.

 

John Healey

 

551

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  25,  leave out ‘refer to, or permit,’ and insert ‘permit or

 

require charging schedules to operate by’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 546.

 

John Healey

 

552

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  27,  leave out ‘refer to, or permit,’ and insert ‘permit or

 

require charging schedules to operate by’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment is consequent to amendment 546.

 

John Healey

 

553

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  27,  after ‘used’, insert ‘or documents produced’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that regulations may provide for the CIL charging schedule to operate

 

with reference to documents produced for other statutory purposes.

 

John Healey

 

554

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  29,  after ‘permit’, insert ‘or require’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to provide an additional power for CIL regulations to require a

 

charging schedule to contain provision for reductions in CIL .

 

John Healey

 

555

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(6)    

In this section a reference to publication includes a reference to making available

 

for inspection.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that the powers in clause 166(2)(a) to require charging authorities to

 

publish the rates or criteria by reference which they charge CIL includes power to require charg­

 

ing authorities to make them available for public inspection.


 
 

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John Healey

 

556

 

Clause  167,  page  94,  line  34,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

In subsection (1) “infrastructure” includes—

 

(a)    

roads and other transport facilities,

 

(b)    

flood defences,

 

(c)    

schools and other educational facilities,

 

(d)    

medical facilities,

 

(e)    

sporting and recreational facilities,

 

(f)    

open spaces, and

 

(g)    

affordable housing (being social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of

 

the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 and such other housing as CIL

 

regulations may specify).

 

(1B)    

The regulations may amend subsection (1A) so as to—

 

(a)    

add, remove or vary an entry in the list of matters included within the

 

meaning of “infrastructure”;

 

(b)    

list matters excluded from the meaning of “infrastructure”.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment provides certainty about what types of infrastructure CIL can be spent on by list­

 

ing certain items in a definition of “infrastructure”. It also enables regulations to be made to alter

 

the definition.

 

John Healey

 

557

 

Clause  167,  page  94,  leave out line 37 and insert ‘funded by CIL,’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment alters the meaning of clause 167(2) so that the power there becomes a power to

 

specify what works, installations and other facilities may or may not be funded by CIL.

 

John Healey

 

558

 

Clause  167,  page  95,  line  3,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

include provision about the circumstances in which a charging authority

 

may and may not apply CIL to projects not included on the list.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to allow for CIL regulations to control the circumstances in which

 

CIL may be used to fund infrastructure not included in a list of infrastructure which may required

 

to be produced by them under clause 167(3)(a).

 

John Healey

 

559

 

Clause  167,  page  95,  line  27,  at end insert—

 

‘(6)    

In this section a reference to publication includes a reference to making available

 

for inspection.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that the power in clause 166(3)(a) to make regulations requiring charg­

 

ing authorities to publish a list of CIL- funded projects includes the power to require that this doc­

 

ument is made available for public inspection.


 
 

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John Healey

 

560

 

Clause  168,  page  95,  line  38,  leave out ‘one’ and insert ‘a charging authority or

 

other public’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment is to clarify that a number of charging or other authorities (as opposed to just

 

one) may collect CIL on behalf of a charging authority.

 

John Healey

 

561

 

Clause  168,  page  95,  line  39,  at end insert ‘authority.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 560.

 

John Healey

 

562

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  4,  at end insert ‘or surcharge;’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that regulations on the enforcement of CIL may provide for the imposi­

 

tion of a surcharge.

 

John Healey

 

563

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  8,  after ‘pending’, insert ‘assumption of liability for CIL

 

or pending’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to extend the power in clause 169(1)(2)(e) so that authorities can

 

be empowered to prohibit a development not only when some is liable to pay CIL but when some­

 

one is yet to assume that liability.

 

John Healey

 

564

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  10,  at end insert ‘(including, in particular, offences

 

relating to evasion or attempted evasion or to the provision of false or misleading

 

information, and offences relating to the prevention or investigation of other offences

 

created by the regulations).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment gives examples of the types of criminal offence that may be provided for in CIL

 

regulations.

 

John Healey

 

565

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘(g)    

for enforcement of sums owed (whether by action on a debt, by distraint

 

against goods or in any other way).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment allows for regulations to make provision for enforcing payment of CIL through

 

civil proceedings such as a debt action or by distraint against goods

 

John Healey

 

566

 

Clause  170,  page  96,  line  32,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘or other public authority’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to allow the Secretary of State to issue guidance to other public


 
 

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authorities on CIL connected matters (and not just charging authorities) and to require them to

 

have regard to it.

 

John Healey

 

567

 

Clause  170,  page  96,  line  33,  leave out ‘a charging’ and insert ‘the’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 566.

 

John Healey

 

568

 

Clause  172,  page  97,  line  11,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

CIL regulations may include provision about the exercise of any other power

 

relating to planning or development.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to allow for CIL regulations to provide for how any power relating

 

to planning or development may or may not be used (subject to the restrictions provided for in

 

amendment 570).

 

John Healey

 

569

 

Clause  172,  page  97,  line  12,  leave out from ‘how’ to ‘and’ in line 14 and insert ‘a

 

power relating to planning or development is to be exercised;’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to allow regulations to permit the Secretary of State to issue guid­

 

ance to charging authorities on the use of a power relating to planning or development (subject to

 

the restrictions provided for in amendment 570).

 

John Healey

 

570

 

Clause  172,  page  97,  line  14,  at end insert—

 

‘(3)    

Provision may be made under subsection (1) or (1A), and guidance may be given

 

under subsection (2), only if the Secretary of State thinks it necessary or

 

expedient for—

 

(a)    

complementing the main purpose of CIL regulations,

 

(b)    

enhancing the effectiveness of CIL regulations,

 

(c)    

preventing agreements, undertakings or other transactions from being

 

used to undermine or circumvent CIL regulations,

 

(d)    

preventing agreements, undertakings or other transactions from being

 

used to achieve a purpose that the Secretary of State thinks would better

 

be achieved through the application of CIL regulations, or

 

(e)    

preventing or restricting the imposition of burdens, the making of

 

agreements or the giving of undertakings, in addition to CIL.

 

(4)    

CIL regulations may provide that a power to give guidance or directions may not

 

be exercised—

 

(a)    

in relation to matters specified in the regulations,

 

(b)    

in cases or circumstances specified in the regulations,

 

(c)    

for a purpose specified in the regulations, or

 

(d)    

to an extent specified in the regulations.’.


 
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