MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been drawn to the great difficulty of duly appreciating the effect of the Registration of Electors Amendment Bill upon the 20 Acts of Parliament partially or wholly repealed by the Bill, owing to 1299 the difficulty in referring to and collecting those Acts with the changes therein specified in the 2nd Schedule to the Bill; and whether he has any objection to laying upon the Table of the House a statement containing the 20 Acts of Parliament specified in the 2nd Schedule to the Bill, so printed as to display the exact alterations proposed by the Bill to be made in those Acts, and to show the whole effect of the Bill as regards the changes it would make in existing Statutes?
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. II. H. FOWLER,) Wolverhampton, E.I am in communication with the Parliamentary Draftsman on the subject of the suggestion of the hon. Member. It will be my desire to arrange for the adoption of some course which will be in accordance with the wishes of the hon. Member in this matter.
§ MR. HOWELLWill the right hon. Gentleman consent to present the Acts referred to in the form of a Consolidation Bill?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERI do not think that would be very easy. I can hold out no hope of that.
§ MR. BARTLEY (Islington, N.)May I point out that if the various Acts now in force could be codified in some handy form it would much facilitate the discussion of the Bill.