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Amendments to be debated in the House of Lords

Here you can browse the Supplement (a) to the Fifth Marshalled List of Amendments to the Greater London Authority Bill to be moved in Committee in the House of Lords.

  
Before Clause 219		 
  
BY THE LORD WHITTY		 
297HA*     Insert the following new Clause-- 
     ("  .--(1)  Section 55 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (financial provisions relating to designation orders) shall be amended as follows.
 
    (2)  In subsection (1)(a) (accounts in respect of parking places on the highway in the case of London borough councils and the Common Council) after "in the case of" there shall be inserted "Transport for London,".
 
    (3)  In subsection (3A) (London borough councils and Common Council to report to Secretary of State on action taken with respect to deficit or surplus on their parking account)--
    (a)  at the beginning there shall be inserted "Transport for London,"; and
    (b)  for "Secretary of State" there shall be substituted "Mayor of London".
    (4)  In subsection (4) (purposes for which a surplus on a local authority's parking account may be applied) the word "and" immediately preceding paragraph (d) shall be omitted and after that paragraph there shall be added--
      (e)  in the case of a London authority, meeting all or any part of the cost of the doing by the authority in their area of anything--
            (i)  which facilitates the implementation of the London transport strategy, and
            (ii)  which is for the time being specified in that strategy as a purpose for which a surplus may be applied by virtue of this paragraph;
      (f)  in the case of a London authority, the making to any other London authority of contributions towards the cost of the doing by that other authority of anything towards the doing of which in its own area the authority making the contribution has power--
            (i)  to apply any surplus on the account required to be kept under subsection (1) above; or
            (ii)  to incur expenditure required to be brought into that account."
    (5)  At the end of the section there shall be added--		Financial provisions relating to parking places on the highway.
1984 c. 27.
 
        (8)  For the purpose of enabling Transport for London and any other London authorities to discharge jointly any functions conferred by virtue of subsection (4)(f) above by a joint committee established under section 101(5) of the Local Government Act 1972, sections 101(5) and 102 of that Act shall have effect as if Transport for London were a local authority.
        (9)  In the application of this section in relation to Transport for London, any reference to its general fund shall be taken as a reference to the financial reserves for which provision is made under section 70(2)(c) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 in calculating Transport for London's component budget for the financial year in question.
        (10)  In this section--
      London authority" means Transport for London, a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London;
      the London transport strategy" means the transport strategy prepared and published under section 124 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.")
1972 c. 70.
  
Schedule 18		 
  
BY THE LORD WHITTY		 
305B*     Page 251, line 41, at end insert--
    ("(  )  different distances travelled;")
 
  
Schedule 19		 
  
BY THE LORD WHITTY		 
316A*     Page 262, line 25, leave out ("or business customer") and insert (", business customer or business visitor") 
316B*     Page 263, line 5, leave out (", or an employee of a client or customer,") 
316C*     Page 263, line 7, at end insert--
    (""business visitor", in relation to a relevant person, means an individual who--
          (a)  in the course of his employment, or
          (b)  in the course of carrying on a business or for the purposes of a business carried on by him,
 
 {jf48}is visiting the relevant person or any premises whose occupier is the relevant person;"){PA  
  
Schedule 20		 
  
BY THE LORD WHITTY		 
349A*     Page 274, line 22, leave out ("In") 
349B*     Page 274, line 22, at end insert ("shall be amended as follows.
 
    (2)  At the beginning there shall be inserted "(1)".
 
    (3)  In the subsection (1) so formed,")		 
349C*     Page 274, line 24, at end insert--
 
    ("(4)  After the subsection (1) so formed there shall be inserted--
        (2)  The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, make to the Greater London Authority grants of such amounts, and on such terms, as he thinks fit.
        (3)  Any grant made under subsection (2) shall be made for the purposes of the London Development Agency."")
 
  
Schedule 22		 
  
BY THE BARONESS HAMWEE
THE LORD CLEMENT-JONES
THE BARONESS THOMAS OF WALLISWOOD		 
354S*     Page 298, line 46, at end insert--
 
    ("(4)  In subsections (4) and (5) for "Commissioner" there shall be substituted "Metropolitan Police Authority".")		 
  
Clause 303		 
  
BY THE BARONESS ANELAY OF ST JOHNS
THE LORD LUKE		 
455WA*     Page 159, line 31, at end insert ("and
    (d)  to promote Greater London as a centre for the Meetings and Incentives Industry.")
 
  
Schedule 27		 
  
BY THE LORD WHITTY		 
455K*     Page 322, line 19, column 3, at end insert-- 
    ("In section 55(4), the word "and" immediately preceding paragraph (d).") 
 
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