§ (1) Every committee shall prepare rules for regulating their proceedings (including quorum, time and place of meeting, records, and the exercise generally of their powers and duties), and shall submit the rules for the approval of the Minister.
§ If within such time as the Minister may allow a committee does not prepare rules, or such rules as the Minister approves, the Minister may himself make rules for the committee, which shall have the like effect as though they were prepared by the committee and approved by the Minister.
§ (2) For the purpose of facilitating the preparation of rules the Minister shall prepare and issue a form of model rules.—[Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen.]
§ Brought up, and read the first time.
§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENI beg to move, "That the Clause be read a second time."
Sir J. HOPEI think this is the Clause which the Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions said included dealing with
| SCHEDULE.—ENACTMENTS REPEALED. | ||
| Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
| 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 83 | The Naval and Military War Pensions, etc., Act, 1915 | Sub-section (9) of Section two. |
| 7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 14 | The Naval and Military War Pensions, etc. (Administrative Expenses), Act, 1917 | Section one; Section three from "so however" to the end of the Section; in Sub-section (1) of Section eight the words' Local Government Board means the Secretary for Scotland"; Sub-section (2) of Section eight and Section nine. |
§ Amendment made: Leave out
| 5& 6 Geo. 5, c. 83 | The Naval and Military War Pensions, etc., Act, 1915 | Sub-section (9) of Section two. |
| —[Sir G. Toulmin.] |
§ Schedule, as amended, agreed to.
§ Bill reported.
§ Ordered, "That the Bill be recommitted, to a Committee of the Whole House in respect of an Amendment, to be moved on behalf of the Government."—[Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen.]
§ Bill (re-committed) considered in Committee.
§ [Sir DONALD MACLEAN, Deputy-Chairman, in the Chair.]