HC Deb 13 December 1922 vol 159 cc2899-900

When any Bill originating in this House either as introduced into Parliament, or as amended, or proposed to be amended, on petition for additional provision, contains a provision authorising any Company incorporated by Act of Parliament, or any class of holders of share or loan capital in any such Company, to subscribe or to alter the terms or conditions of any subscription towards, or to guarantee or to raise any money in aid of the undertaking of another Company (which Bill is not brought in by the Company so authorised, or of which such Company is not a joint promoter), proof shall be required before the Examiner within five weeks of the date on which the Petition for the same was indorsed by the Examiner, if such provision is contained in the Bill as introduced into Parliament, that the Company or the class of holders of share or loan capital so authorised has consented to such subscription, alteration, guarantee, or raising of money, at a meeting of the proprietors of the Company, or of any such class of holders of share or loan capital, as the case may be, held specially for that purpose, in the same manner and subject to the same provisions as the meeting directed to be held under Standing Order 64; and in case such provision is contained in the Bill as introduced into Parliament, that the Notices for the Bill state the specific sum, if any, proposed to be subscribed, or guaranteed or raised, or the alteration of the terms or conditions of the subscription, as the case may be, or in case such provision shall In proposed to be inserted in the Bill on a petition for additional provision that Notices stating the specific sum, if any, proposed to be subscribed, or guaranteed or raised or the alteration of the terms or conditions of the subscription, as the case may be, and stating that the consent of the Company, or of such class of holders of share or loan capital, has been given as aforesaid, have been published once in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in the County Newspapers in which the Notices for the Bill were published, for two successive weeks during the six weeks immediately preceding the presentation of such Petition for additional provision; in any case in which such consent has been given, it shall not be necessary to submit the Bill, in respect of such provision a aforesaid, to the approval of a meeting to be held in accordance with Standing Order 64.

Amendments made: After the word "London" insert the word "or."

Leave out the words "or Dublin."