§ The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN of WAYS and MEANS (Mr. Whitley)I beg to move, "That Standing Orders 220 and 246, relating to Private Bills, be suspended for the remainder of the Session:
"That, as regards Private Bills returned by the House of Lords with Amendments, such Amendments shall be considered on the day on which the House shall next sit.
"That, when it is intended to propose any Amendments thereto, notice of such Amendments shall be given at the Private Bill Office on the day on which the Bill shall have been returned from the Lords."
Question put, and agreed to.
§ Provisional Order Bills (no Standing Orders applicable)—Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the case of the following Bill, referred on the First Reading thereof, no Standing Orders are applicable, namely:—
§ Severn Fisheries Provisional Order Bill.
§ Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time to-morrow.
§ Glasgow Gas Consolidation Bill,
§ Lords Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Gas Companies (Standard Burner) (No. 1) Bill [Lords] (by Order),
§ Gas Companies (Standard Burner) (No. 2) Bill [Lords] (by Order),
§ Gas Companies (Standard Burner) (No. 3) Bill [Lords] (by Order),
§ Consideration, as amended, deferred till to-morrow.
§ Paisley Gas Order Confirmation Bill [Lords],
§ Read the third time, and passed without Amendment.
1728§ Falkirk Corporation Gas Order Confirmation Bill,
§ Considered; to be read the third time to-morrow.
§ Water Orders Confirmation Bill [Lords] (by Order),
§ Read a second time, and committed.
§ Fraserburgh Water Order Confirmation Bill,
§ "To confirm a Provisional Order under The Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Fraserburgh Water," presented by the Lord Advocate; and ordered (under Section 7 of the Act) to be considered to-morrow.
§ Message from the Lords,—That they have agreed to—
§ Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill,
§ Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Bill, without Amendment,
§ Small Holdings (No. 3) Bill, with an Amendment,
§ Little Hulton Urban District Council Bill,
§ Yorkshire Registries and Driffield Navigation Bill,
§ Middlesbrough Corporation Bill,
§ Pontypridd and Rhondda Joint Water Board Bill,
§ Rhondda Urban District Council (Tramways Extension, etc.) Bill,
§ Eastbourne Corporation Bill,
§ Southampton Corporation Bill, with Amendments.