§ Order for Committee read.
§ Mr. SPEAKERUnder the Standing Orders, I have to deal with the Instructions which stand on the Order Paper. The Instruction in the name of the hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Holt) is out of order. ["That it be an instruction to the Committee that they may amend the Bill 1386 so as to provide that the wife of any man registered as a voter in respect of a household qualification shall also be registered as a voter in respect of that qualification."] The second Instruction in the name of the hon. Member for North Somerset (Mr. King) can be inserted as an Amendment. ["That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they may amend the Bill so as to provide that no woman be registered as a Parliamentary voter until she has first signified in writing that she desires to be so registered."] The third Instruction, in the name of the hon. Member for Scarborough (Mr. Rea), is beyond the scope of the Bill. ["That it be an Instruction to the Committee that they may amend the Bill so as to provide for the enfranchisement of husband and wife occupying a house of less than—20 annual value."]
Bill considered in Committee.
Committee report Progress, to sit again to-morrow (Thursday).