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On the Motion of the CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES (The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos), Standing Orders Nos. 85 and 102 were amended as follows:—
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85. When an Examiner's certificate or special report shall be referred to the Standing Orders Committee, the Committee, if they think fit, shall hear the parties affected by any Standing Order referred to in such certificate or special report, provided such parties have deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than 3 o'clock on the second day after the order for the meeting of the Committee is made, a statement (to be printed in all opposed cases) of the facts to be submitted to the Committee. Such statement shall be confined strictly to the points reported upon by the Examiner, and no party on the consideration thereof by the Committee shall be allowed to travel into any matter not referred to in his statement.
102. In all cases of opposed local Bills in which no parties have appeared on the petitions against such Bills, or, having appeared, have withdrawn their opposition before their case have been fully opened, or whose locus standi has been disallowed, the Committees on such Bills shall report accordingly to the House, and such Bills shall thereupon be referred to the Chairman of Committees, to be dealt with by him as if originally unopposed.
§ Standing Orders to be printed as amended. (No. 227.)