Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

moved Amendment No. 204CB: 204CB: Clause 86, page 57, line 4, leave out ““the whole or”” The noble Lord said: The amendment heads a group with other amendments in my name. They are all minor matters so I shall be brief. Amendment No. 204CB draws the Committee’s attention to the fact that I do not think that subsection (1) makes sense. If it does, perhaps someone can explain how. It is about circumstances in which ““a community governance review”” is being undertaken in part of a district, and, "““a principal council receives a community governance petition which relates to the whole or part of a principal council’s area””." Subsection (1)(b) states that, "““at the time the petition is received, the council is in the course of undertaking a community governance review””," which is somewhere either in the whole or part of the district. Subsection (1)(c) states that, "““the petition area is wholly outside the area under review””." If under paragraph (a) the petition relates to the whole of a principal council’s area, it cannot be wholly outside the area under review because the area under review must include part of the district. That does not make sense and the Government ought to rewrite it so that it does. I shall be brief on the other amendments. I wish to retain the word ““unparished”” to refer to those parts of a district that do not have parish councils. That is the current usage; it is what people say and what they understand, so there is no reason for changing a word or description when it is entirely understood by anybody and everybody who takes an interest in parish councils. I beg to move.