§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
A little explanation is required in connection with this Bill which is to amend the law in respect of the salaries and pensions of persons hereafter appointed as Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland. There are only three short Clauses in the Bill. The first is in connection with the salaries and pensions of future Judges and the effect of it will be a saving of £2,500 a year. The second Clause deals with the power to direct trials without a jury in certain matters requiring prolonged examination either of documents or accounts or prolonged scientific investigation or legal investigation. The third Clause is an explanation of the powers of the Parliament in Northern Ireland to legislate in respect of jurors and juries. Such powers will relate to the preparation and revision of the jury lists and the qualification, selection, summoning and attendance of jurors. The Bill is of purely local interest, and I understand there is no oppo- 2149 sition to it. It does not really concern this country but Northern Ireland.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Bill read a Second time.
§ Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House for Monday next.—[Captain Hacking.]