§ The Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone)My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to consolidate the greater part of the Companies Acts. I may modestly say that it is 599 pages long. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ Lord Elwyn-JonesMy Lords, perhaps I may say that we cannot wait to read it.
§ On Question, Bill read a first time, and to be printed.