Schedule
11
Public
health protection: further
amendments
Mr.
Bradshaw:
I beg to move amendment No. 243, in
schedule 11, page 160, line 4, at
end insert—
‘ (1) Section 5
of the 1984 Act (financial provisions as to port health authorities) is
amended as follows.
(2) In
subsection (2), for the words from “shall” onwards
substitute “shall be defrayed by the constituent districts in
such proportions and in such manner as may be determined by or in
accordance with the
order.”
(3) In
subsection (3), omit “or rating
districts”.’.
The
Chairman:
With this it will be convenient to discuss
Government amendments Nos. 244, 245 and
246.
Mr.
Bradshaw:
A principal aim of the new public health measure
is to update the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984.
Amendment No. 243 updates section 5 of that Act by removing the
obsolete reference to rating districts. Section 5 makes financial
provisions in relation to port health authorities, especially for PHAs
that are joint boards consisting of two or more constituent
authorities.
PHAs are
created by an order of the Secretary of State and such an order may
state how the expenses of a joint board are to be defrayed. If the
order does not state how they are to be defrayed, section 5 sets out a
mechanism that uses a common fund to which the constituent districts or
rating districts contribute. However, as the relevant definition of
rating district in the General Rate Act 1967 has been repealed, the
provision is out of date. Amendment No. 243 simply removes the
mechanism to which I referred and the others are consequential
amendments.
Amendment
agreed
to.
Amendment
made: No. 244, in
schedule 11, page 166, line 43, at
end insert—
‘( )
“rating district”;’.—[Mr.
Bradshaw.]
Schedule
11, as amended, agreed
to.
Further consideration
adjourned.—[Steve
McCabe.]
Adjourned
accordingly at ten minutes past Seven o’clock till Thursday 24
January at Nine
o’clock.
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