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Consideration of Bill: 31st March 2008                  

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Mr Clive Betts

 

Lembit Öpik

 

12

 

Page  46,  line  22,  leave out Clause 114.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

67

 

Page  48,  line  14  [Clause  117],  after ‘principles’, insert—

 

‘(a)    

shall provide for section 97(3) to be disregarded for the purpose of

 

subsection (5)(a), and

 

(b)    

.’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

68

 

Page  51,  line  29  [Clause  127],  leave out ‘non-profit’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

69

 

Page  51,  line  30  [Clause  127],  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

A direction may be given to a profit-making registered provider only in so far as

 

its accounts relate to social housing activities.’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

70

 

Page  52,  line  14  [Clause  128],  leave out ‘non-profit’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

71

 

Page  52,  line  25  [Clause  129],  leave out ‘non-profit’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

72

 

Page  55,  line  25  [Clause  136],  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

section [companies exempt from audit].’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

73

 

Page  55,  line  28  [Clause  136],  at end insert—


 
 

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‘(c)    

section [exempt companies: extraordinary audit].’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

74

 

Page  56,  line  9  [Clause  138],  leave out ‘non-profit’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

75

 

Page  56,  line  10  [Clause  138],  leave out ‘non-profit’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

76

 

Page  56,  line  20,  leave out Clause 139.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

77

 

Page  57,  line  27  [Clause  141],  leave out ‘making of an order’ and insert ‘presenting

 

of a petition’

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

78

 

Page  57,  line  30  [Clause  141],  at end insert—

 

‘But not the presenting of a petition by the directors or other

  
 

governing body of the registered provider’.

  
 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

79

 

Page  57,  line  34  [Clause  141],  at end insert—

 

‘A decision by the directors or other governing body of a

The directors or governing body’.

 
 

registered provider to present a petition for winding up where

  
 

the registered provider is—

  
 

(a)    

a registered company, or

  
 

(b)    

an industrial and provident society.

  
 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

80

 

Page  58,  line  1  [Clause  142],  after ‘28’, insert ‘working’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

81

 

Page  58,  line  6  [Clause  142],  after ‘provider’, insert ‘whom the regulator is able to


 
 

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locate after making reasonable enquiries’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

82

 

Page  58,  line  19  [Clause  142],  leave out paragraph (b) and insert—

 

‘(b)    

such of its secured creditors as the regulator is able to locate after making

 

reasonable enquiries.’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

83

 

Page  58,  line  32  [Clause  143],  after ‘provider’, insert ‘whom the regulator is able

 

to locate after making reasonable enquiries’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

84

 

Page  59,  line  1  [Clause  144],  at end insert—

 

‘(A1)    

During a moratorium the HCA—

 

(a)    

may not give the registered provider a direction under section 36(4), and

 

(b)    

may not take steps to enforce such a direction against the registered

 

provider.’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

85

 

Page  59,  line  30  [Clause  145],  after ‘by’, insert ‘—

 

(a)    

section [right to acquire], or

 

(b)    

’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

86

 

Page  59,  line  31  [Clause  145],  after ‘housing’, insert ‘in Wales’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

87

 

Page  60,  line  23  [Clause  147],  leave out ‘its secured creditors’ and insert ‘such of

 

its secured creditors as the regulator is able to locate after making reasonable enquiries’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

88

 

Page  60,  line  31  [Clause  147],  leave out ‘of a registered provider agrees to’ and

 

insert ‘to whom proposals were sent agrees to the’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

89

 

Page  60,  line  34  [Clause  147],  after ‘creditor’, insert ‘to whom the proposals were

 

sent’.


 
 

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Secretary Hazel Blears

 

90

 

Page  60,  line  38  [Clause  147],  after ‘creditors’, insert ‘to whom the original

 

proposals were sent’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

91

 

Page  61,  line  6  [Clause  147],  after ‘creditors’, insert ‘to whom the original

 

proposals were sent’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

92

 

Page  62,  line  33  [Clause  151],  after ‘society’, insert ‘—

 

(a)    

an instrument providing for the amalgamation of the society with another

 

industrial and provident society, or

 

(b)    

.’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

93

 

Page  62,  line  33  [Clause  151],  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

An instrument providing for the amalgamation of a society (“S1”) with another

 

has the same effect as a resolution by S1 under section 50 of the Industrial and

 

Provident Societies Act 1965 (c. 12) (amalgamation of societies by special

 

resolution).’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

94

 

Page  62,  line  38  [Clause  151],  leave out from ‘Authority’ to end of line 39 and

 

insert—

 

‘(4A)    

An instrument does not take effect until the copy is registered.’.

 


 

Sir George Young

 

Lembit Öpik

 

Andrew George

 

131

 

Page  67  [Clause  166],  leave out lines 13 and 14.

 

Sir George Young

 

Lembit Öpik

 

Andrew George

 

132

 

Page  67,  line  15  [Clause  166],  leave out ‘profit-making’.


 
 

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Sir George Young

 

Lembit Öpik

 

Andrew George

 

133

 

Page  67,  line  23  [Clause  167],  leave out ‘non-profit’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

95

 

Page  68,  line  2  [Clause  167],  after ‘under’, insert ‘—

 

(a)    

section [right to acquire], or

 

(b)    

’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

96

 

Page  68,  line  2  [Clause  167],  leave out ‘(as applied by section 172)’ and insert

 

‘(tenant’s right to acquire social housing in Wales)’.

 

Lembit Öpik

 

Andrew George

 

Simon Hughes

 

235

 

Page  68,  line  16  [Clause  168],  leave out ‘and’.

 

Lembit Öpik

 

Andrew George

 

Simon Hughes

 

236

 

Page  68,  line  17  [Clause  168],  at end insert, ‘and

 

(d)    

the local authority in whose area the property is located.’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

97

 

Page  68,  line  37  [Clause  170],  at end insert—

 

‘(za)    

net proceeds of sale to a tenant in pursuance of the right to acquire

 

conferred by section [right to acquire],’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

98

 

Page  69,  line  35  [Clause  172],  leave out ‘shall continue to have effect in relation to

 

social housing in England’ and insert ‘apply in relation to disposals of social housing by

 

registered providers’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

99

 

Page  69,  line  36  [Clause  172],  leave out ‘in subsection (3)’ and insert ‘below’.


 
 

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Secretary Hazel Blears

 

100

 

Page  69,  line  41  [Clause  172],  at end insert ‘and’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

101

 

Page  69,  line  42  [Clause  172],  leave out from ‘(supplemental)’ to end of line 43.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

102

 

Page  70,  line  1  [Clause  172],  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

 

‘(3)    

In those provisions—

 

(a)    

references to a registered social landlord shall be treated as references to

 

a registered provider,

 

(b)    

references to consent given by the Welsh Ministers under section 9 of the

 

1996 Act shall be treated as references to consent given by the regulator

 

under section 166 of this Act,

 

(c)    

references to the Welsh Ministers in connection with a power to make

 

orders or regulations shall be treated as references to the Secretary of

 

State,

 

(d)    

in section 12(5)(b) of the 1996 Act the reference to the Welsh Ministers

 

shall be treated as a reference to the HCA, and

 

(e)    

references to a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales shall be

 

treated as references to a resolution of either House of Parliament.

 

(4)    

This section does not affect the continued application of the provisions listed in

 

subsection (2) in relation to disposals made before this section comes into force.’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

103

 

Page  70,  line  30  [Clause  177],  leave out ‘and’.

 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

104

 

Page  70,  line  33  [Clause  177],  at end insert ‘, and

 

(c)    

section 173 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42)

 

(consent to certain disposals of housing obtained from new town

 

corporations).’.

 


 

Secretary Hazel Blears

 

105

 

Page  72,  line  4  [Clause  178],  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

In section 173 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) (consent

 

to certain disposals of housing obtained from new town corporations)—

 

(a)    

in subsection (1)(a) (consent) for “Secretary of State” substitute

 

“appropriate authority”,

 

(b)    

after subsection (1) insert—


 
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