HC Deb 18 November 1918 vol 110 cc3203-4

That they have agreed to,—

Gas Provisional Orders Bill,

Gas and Water Provisional Orders Bill, with Amendments.

Brentford Gas Bill and South Shields Gas Bill,

The Lords have come to the following Resolution, namely:—

That the Promoters of the Brentford Gas Bill and South Shields Gas Bill have leave to suspend any further proceeding thereon in order to proceed with the Bills, if they shall think fit, in the next Session of Parliament, provided that notice of their intention to do so be lodged in the Private Bill Office not later than Three o'clock on the day prior to the close of the present Session and that all fees due thereon up to that period be paid:

That such Bills shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than Three o'clock on or before the third day on which the House shall sit after the next meeting of Parliament, with a declaration annexed thereto, signed by the Agent stating that the Bill is the same in every respect as the Bill at the last stage of the proceedings thereon in this House in the present Session:

That the proceedings on such Bills shall be pro formâ only in regard to every stage through which the same shall have passed in the present Session, and that no new-fees be charged in regard to such stages:

That the Standing Orders by which the proceedings on Bills are regulated shall not apply to such Bills in regard to any of the stages through which the same shall have passed during the present Session.