HC Deb 06 August 1896 vol 43 cc1652-3

Any person who, but for her sex, would be entitled to be placed on the Parliamentary Register of Electors shall be entitled to be placed on the Burgess Roll in respect of any qualification which enables male persons to vote for an alderman or councillor of the city; and the Irish Registration Acts shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to include women.

It is not competent for the hon. Member to move any clause on Report which would have required an Instruction if it were to be considered in Committee. This clause would certainly have required an Instruction. For the same reason the following clause, in the name of the hon. Member for the College Green Division (Mr. Carew), is out of order:—