Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill
Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill
An
Assembly Member Bill introduced by Darren Millar AM. Darren Millar AM was successful in a
legislative ballot held on 24 April 2013 and given leave to proceed with his Bill
by the Assembly on 19 June 2013. The Business Committee remitted the Bill to
the Communities,
Equality and Local Government Committee.
About the Bill
The key purposes of the Bill, on introduction, were to modernise the licensing
regime for holiday caravan sites. It sought to give local authorities new
duties and enforcement powers so they could ensure that holiday caravan sites
are safe and well managed, and to robustly tackle breaches of licence
conditions by a combination of statutory enforcement action and financial
penalties to provide an effective deterrent.
The
Bill also sought to end the permanent residential use of holiday caravans by
requiring caravan owners and long-term occupiers to demonstrate that their main
residence is elsewhere, and by giving local authorities powers to deal with
caravan occupiers who fail this test.
The
Bill was intended to give owners and long-term occupiers a legal right to a
written statement of the terms and conditions under which they occupy their
pitch, and prescribe a number of implied terms that will apply to all holiday
caravan agreements.
Current Stage
The
Bill fell at the end of the Fourth Assembly as it was not passed before the end
of the Assembly in which it was introduced (Standing Order 26.77).
Record of Passage in the
National Assembly for Wales
The
following table sets out the dates for each stage of the Bill’s passage through
the National Assembly for Wales.
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Correspondence
from the Member in Charge 29
May 2014 (PDF 232KB) 9
July 2014 (PDF 174KB) Committee Stage 1
report (PDF 522KB) The
Bill fell at the end of the Fourth Assembly as it was not passed before the
end of the Assembly in which it was introduced (Standing Order 26.77). |
Business type: Bill
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: Fallen
First published: 17/03/2014
Documents
- Correspondence from Darren Millar AM - 29 May 2014 PDF 232 KB
- Correspondence from Darren Millar AM - 9 July 2014 PDF 251 KB View as HTML (2) 23 KB
Consultations
- Holiday Caravan Sites (Wales) Bill: consultation (completed)