'The Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979 (C 11)

32A. In section 5(2) (which provides that the Secretary of State shall appoint an Amenity Committee and a Fisheries Committee)—

(a) for the words from "two Committees" to "respectively)" there shall be substituted the words "a Committee (in this Act referred to as the Fisheries Committee)"; and

(b)for the words "those Committees" the shall be substituted the words "the Committee".

32B. In Schedule 4 (which makes provision for the constitution and functions of the Amenity Committee and the Fisheries Committee)—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) the words "Amenity Committee and the" shall cease to have effect;

(ii) for the words "them respectively" there shall be substituted the word "it"; and

(iii) for the words "amenity and fisheries respectively" there shall be substituted the word "fisheries";

(b) in paragraph 2 for the words "each of those Committees" and "each Committee" where they respectively occur there shall be substituted the words "the Committee";

(c) in paragraph 3—

(i) the words "Amenity Committee and the" shall cease to have effect; and

(ii) for the words "each of those Committees" there shall be substituted the words "the Committee";

(d) paragraph 5 shall cease to have effect; and

(e) in paragraph 6 the words "Amenity Committee and the" shall cease to have effect.".—[Mr. Allan Stewart.]

I beg to move Amendment No. 112 in page 65, line 15, leave out 'over school age' and insert `taking part therein'. The purpose of this amendment is to make it clear that, although leisure and recreation provision is handed over to the districts, the responsibility for further education in the widest sense will remain the responsibility of the regions. Nothing in the Bill is intended to confine the activities that the regional council might wish to mount to promote the educational development of those within its area.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made: No. 113, in page 65, line 23, at end insert—

'The Tenants' Rights, Etc (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.52)

34A. In Section 2—

(a) in subsection (6) which prescribes a time limit for service of a notice of acceptance—

(i) in paragraph (a) after the words "(3) above" there shall be inserted the words "or by referring the matter to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland under subsection (2)(d) of section 7 of this Act";

(ii) in paragraph (b) for the words from "determined" to "Scotland" there shall be substituted the word "resolved"; and

(iii) after sub-paragraph (iii) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

"(iiia) the service of an offer to sell on him by virtue of subsection (3)(b of section 7 of this Act"; and

(b) at the end there shall be added the following subsection—

"(12 In the foregoing provisions of this section, 'offer to sell' includes such offer to sell as is mentioned in section 7(2)(d) of this Act.'.

34B. In section 7(2) (c) (which relates to matters being referred to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland)—

(a)after the words "right to purchase)" there shall be inserted the words "or has made an order under subsection (3)(b) of this section"; and

(b) after the words "said finding" there shall be inserted the words "or, as the case may be, order".'.—[Mr. Younger.]

I beg to move Amendment No. 114, in page 65, line 31, at end insert—

'35A. In paragraph 33 of Schedule 32 (which makes provision as regards rates in Scotland in respect of lands and heritages in an enterprise zone),—
(a) at the end of sub paragraph (1) there shall be added the following proviso— "Provided that where the lands and heritages are situated only partially within any one enterprise zone their value shall, for the purpose of determining what rates (if any) are payable in respect of the lands and heritages, be apportioned between so much of them as lies within, and so much of them as lies outwith, that zone as if—
(i) the apportionment were by reason of their extending into two or more rating areas; and
(ii) the boundary of the enterprise zone were the boundary of such an area."; and
(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (4) there shall be added the words "; and `rating area' means the area of a rating authority.".'.

This amendment ensures that exemption from a liability to pay rates in respect of certain domestic lands and heritages situated within an enterprise zone in Scotland should clearly apply to those parts of properties straddling a boundary which lie within the enterprise zone. That was always the Government's intention.

Amendment agreed to.

Volume 24: debated on Monday 17 May 1982