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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Thursday 4 June 2009

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords] Committee 1 and 3

Public Bill Committee

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Local Democracy, Economic Development and

Construction Bill [Lords]

John Healey

To move, That the Bill be considered in the following order; Clauses 1 to 52; Schedule

1; Clause 53; Schedule 2; Clauses 54 to 61; Schedule 3; Clauses 62 to 64; Schedule 4;

Clauses 65 to 82; Schedule 5; Clauses 83 to 116; Schedule 6; Clauses 117 to 142;

Schedule 7; Clauses 143 to 146; new Clauses; new Schedules; remaining proceedings on

the Bill.

John Healey

That, subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the

Committee shall be reported to the House for publication.

Referendums

Graham Stringer

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	A principal local authority must provide a facility for the holding of

referendums—

(a)	in electronic form, or

(b)	in such other manner as the authority considers appropriate.

(2)	A principal local authority must give reasons for not granting a request to use the

facility provided by it under this section for the holding of a referendum.

(3)	A principal local authority must make a scheme (a “referendum scheme”) for the

holding of a referendum.

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(4)	A referendum scheme must be approved at a meeting of the authority before it

comes into force.

(5)	A principal local authority must publish its referendum scheme—

(a)	on its website, and

(b)	in such other manner as the authority considers appropriate for bringing

the scheme to the attention of persons who live, work or study in its area.

(6)	A principal local authority may at any time revise its referendum scheme (and

subsections (3) and (4) apply in relation to any scheme which is revised under this

subsection).

(7)	A principal local authority must comply with its referendum scheme.

(8)	Subject to that, nothing in this Chapter affects the powers or duties of a principal

local authority in relation to any referendum held.’.

Penalties

Graham Stringer

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	A principal local authority commits an offence by failing to comply with a duty

imposed on it by virtue of Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 1.

(2)	A principal local authority found guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is

liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100,000.’.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

2

Page  1,  line  6,  leave out Clause 1.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

3

Page  2,  line  20,  leave out Clause 2.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

4

Page  4,  line  22,  leave out Clause 3.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

5

Page  4,  line  40,  leave out Clause 4.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

6

Page  5,  line  4,  leave out Clause 5.

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Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

7

Page  5,  line  38,  leave out Clause 6.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

8

Page  6,  line  6,  leave out Clause 7.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

9

Page  6,  line  10,  leave out Clause 8.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

10

Page  6,  line  19,  leave out Clause 9.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

11

Page  6,  line  32,  leave out Clause 10.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

12

Page  7,  line  12,  leave out Clause 11.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

13

Page  7,  line  29,  leave out Clause 12.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

14

Page  8,  line  7,  leave out Clause 13.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

15

Page  8,  line  17,  leave out Clause 14.

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Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

16

Page  9,  line  39,  leave out Clause 15.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

17

Page  10,  line  7,  leave out Clause 16.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

18

Page  11,  line  27,  leave out Clause 17.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

19

Page  12,  line  16,  leave out Clause 18.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

20

Page  12,  line  28,  leave out Clause 19.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

21

Page  13,  line  7,  leave out Clause 20.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

22

Page  13,  line  30,  leave out Clause 21.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

23

Page  14,  line  5,  leave out Clause 22.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

24

Page  14,  line  37,  leave out Clause 23.

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Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

25

Page  16,  line  10,  leave out Clause 24.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

26

Clause  25,  page  16,  line  36,  leave out paragraph (b).

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

27

Clause  25,  page  16,  line  40,  leave out paragraph (b).

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

28

Clause  25,  page  17,  line  3,  leave out paragraph (b).

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

29

Page  18,  line  20,  leave out Clause 27.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

30

Page  22,  line  32,  leave out Clause 28.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

31

Page  23,  line  40,  leave out Clause 29.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

32

Page  24,  line  17,  leave out Clause 30.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

33

Clause  31,  page  25,  line  12,  leave out ‘The Secretary of State may by regulations’

and insert ‘local authorities may’.

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Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

34

Clause  31,  page  25,  line  36,  leave out ‘regulations’ and insert ‘arrangements’.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

35

Clause  31,  page  26,  line  19,  leave out ‘Regulations’ and insert ‘Arrangements’.

Mr Paul Goodman

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Philip Dunne

36

Clause  31,  page  26,  line  26,  leave out ‘have regard to any guidance issued by the

Secretary of State’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

37

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘( )	the duty of members of the authority as democratically elected

representatives;’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

38

Clause  11,  page  7,  line  26,  after ‘with’, insert ‘the statutory provisions of’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

39

Clause  11,  page  7,  line  27,  after ‘Chapter’, insert—

‘(a)	prevents a principal local authority from relaxing the requirements of its

petition schemes so as to apply it more widely than is required by this

Chapter of the scheme, or

(b)

’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

40

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  36,  after ‘enactment’, insert ‘or relates to a planning or

licensing application’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

41

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  36,  after ‘enactment’, insert ‘or relates to a planning or

licensing application, or to a matter on which the authority is at the time of the

presentation of the petition, carrying out a formal consultation process in which the

petition may be included’.

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Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

42

Clause  14,  page  9,  line  23,  after ‘to’, insert ‘the appropriate cabinet member or

leader of’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

43

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  43,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

A principal local authority’s petition scheme must secure that where a petition is

made to the authority that relates to matters set out by the appropriate national

authority under section 14(4)(a) or by the Secretary of State under section

14(4)(b), the authority must within the specified period—

(a)	forward the petition to the relevant department of state it considers

responsible for the matters,

(b)	notify the petition organiser in writing of this and of the authority’s

reasons for doing so, and

(c)	publish a notification on the authority’s website.’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

44

Clause  144,  page  87,  line  3,  leave out ‘Chapters 1 and 2’ and insert ‘Chapter 1’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

45

Clause  144,  page  87,  line  6,  at end insert—

‘( )	Chapter 2 shall not come into force until an Act of Parliament has been

passed placing duties on central government departments to make,

publicise, and comply with a scheme for handling both paper and

electronic petitions.’.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

46

Page  9,  line  39,  leave out Clause 15.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

47

Clause  16,  page  10,  line  22,  leave out from ‘means’ to end of line 25.

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

48

Clause  19,  page  12,  line  29,  leave out subsection (1).

Julia Goldsworthy

Dan Rogerson

49

Clause  19,  page  12,  line  31,  leave out from beginning to ‘guidance’.

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Revised 5 June 2009