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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Tuesday 28th October 2008

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Dormant Bank and Building Society

 

Accounts Bill [Lords], As Amended

 

Simon Hughes

 

1

 

Page  10,  line  5  [Clause  18],  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

Any order made under this section shall ensure that at least half of the distribution

 

of dormant account money for meeting Welsh expenditure must be made for

 

meeting revenue or capital expenditure on or connected with the provision of

 

existing or new services, facilities or opportunities to meet the needs of young

 

people.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

2

 

Page  10,  line  15  [Clause  19],  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

Any order made under this section shall ensure that at least half of the distribution

 

of dormant account money for meeting Scottish expenditure must be made for

 

meeting revenue or capital expenditure on or connected with the provision of

 

existing or new services, facilities or opportunities to meet the needs of young

 

people.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

3

 

Page  10,  line  25  [Clause  20],  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

Any order made under this section shall ensure that at least half of the distribution

 

of dormant account money for meeting Northern Ireland expenditure must be

 

made for meeting revenue or capital expenditure on or connected with the

 

provision of existing or new services, facilities or opportunities to meet the needs

 

of young people.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

4

 

Page  24,  line  26  [Schedule  3],  at end insert—


 
 

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‘Estimates

 

9A         

The Big Lottery Fund shall no later than one month before the end of each

 

financial year publish an estimate of the apportionable income which it expects

 

to have available for the following financial year.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

5

 

Page  9,  line  31  [Clause  17],  after ‘meeting’, insert ‘revenue or capital’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

6

 

Page  9,  line  31  [Clause  17],  after ‘of’, insert ‘existing or new’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

7

 

Page  9,  line  38  [Clause  17],  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

At least three-quarters of the dormant account money for meeting English

 

expenditure distributed in each financial year shall be distributed for the purposes

 

set out in (1)(a) above.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

8

 

Page  9,  line  17  [Clause  16],  after ‘State’, insert ‘no later than 1st March in the

 

preceding financial year’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

9

 

Page  14,  line  36  [Clause  30],  leave out subsections (1) and (2) and insert—

 

‘(1)    

Part 1 shall come into force on 5 January 2009.

 

(2)    

Part 2 shall come into force on 6 April 2009.’.

 

Register of dormant accounts

 

Mr Jeremy Browne

 

Dr Vincent Cable

 

Mr Charles Walker

 

Mr Martyn Jones

 

Dr Ian Gibson

 

John McFall

 

Total signatories: 7

 

Miss Julie Kirkbride

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Treasury may make such regulations as are necessary for the establishment,

 

maintenance and operation of a register of dormant account funds (“the register”).

 

(2)    

The regulations made under subsection (1) shall provide for—

 

(a)    

particulars relating to the dormant account to be entered into the register;


 
 

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(b)    

arrangements to allow any registered charity to enquire of the registrar

 

whether the register includes an account in the name of a deceased

 

individual from whom the charity might expect to benefit;

 

(c)    

arrangements to allow any registered charity to be able to trace an

 

account or accounts at any one time; and

 

(d)    

other particulars as may be prescribed by the Treasury.

 

(3)    

Before making any regulations under subsection (1), the Treasury shall consult—

 

(a)    

such persons as are likely to be affected by those regulations; and

 

(b)    

such persons as the Treasury considers appropriate.

 

(4)    

Regulations made under subsection (1)—

 

(a)    

may make different provision for different cases; and

 

(b)    

may contain such incidental, supplemental, consequential and

 

transitional provision as the Secretary of State thinks fit.

 

(5)    

The power to make regulations under subsection (1) is exercisable by statutory

 

instrument.

 

(6)    

No regulations may be made under subsection (1) unless a draft of the statutory

 

instrument containing the regulations has been laid before, and approved by a

 

resolution of, each House of Parliament.’.

 


 
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