Motion summary
It was moved by the Baroness Maddock, in Clause 55, page 37, line 17, at end to insert: “( ) In exercising the power conferred by subsection (3), the appropriate national authority must ensure that the following fall within the prescribed description of HMOs for the purposes of subsection (2)(a)— (a) upon such an order coming into force, HMOs of 3 or more storeys and occupied by 5 or more persons; (b) within one year of such an order coming into force, HMOs of 3 or more storeys and occupied by 4 or more persons; and (c) within 2 years of such an order coming into force, HMOs of 3 or more storeys and occupied by 3 or more persons.”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and