§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (VISCOUNT HALDANE)My Lords, I rise to move the Second Reading of this Bill. It is a Bill of a very useful class with which your Lordships are already familiar. It proposes to take the mass of statutory provisions regarding the law of forgery and to consolidate them into something approaching to a Code. Should your Lordships think fit to read the Bill a second time I shall move that it he referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills which was set up for the purposes of a Bill of the same character—the Perjury Bill—and which is still in existence; and that Committee will then be in a position to suggest any further useful amendments of the law that may be agreed to, and thus enable the Bill to assume a inure complete form. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(viscount Haldane.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a.
§ VISCOUNT HALDANEI now move that the Bill be referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.
§ Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to, and a Message ordered to be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint them therewith.