HC Deb 01 July 1930 vol 240 cc1930-2

Order read for further consideration of the Bill, as amended (in the Standing Committee).

HON. MEMBERS

Object!

Mr. DUKES

On a point of Order. Is it not a fact that when Amendments were called last night they were not moved and may I ask now why they appear on the Order Paper for to-day?

Mr. SPEAKER

As a matter of fact, there was no opposition. No objection was raised to the further consideration of the Workmen's Compensation (No. 2) Bill when the Order was read by the Clerk at the Table, and so, in the ordinary course of procedure, I called upon various hon. Members for their Amendments. There was no response. I got as far as the second Amendment on the Paper, in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Altrincham (Mr. Atkinson), and further consideration of the Amendments, after that, was objected to. So it was postponed to a future date.

Mr. DUKES

Do I understand, then, that the Third Reading may be taken now?

Mr. SPEAKER

No; further consideration of the Workmen's Compensation (No. 2) Bill, as amended, will be taken on some future occasion.

Mr. T. KENNEDY (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury)

Is it not a fact that the Third Reading of this Bill was asked for last night and objected to?

Mr. SPEAKER

No, that is not so. Objection was raised to further consideration of the Bill, as amended, when I got down to the second Amendment, in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Altrincham.

Mr. C. WILLIAMS

Is it still in order to put down Amendments to this Bill?

Mr. SPEAKER

Certainly.

Mr. KENNEDY

Has your attention been called to the report that appears in the OFFICIAL REPORT; which bears out my recollection that the Third Reading was asked for and objected to?

Mr. SPEAKER

Yes, I noticed that discrepancy between the Order Paper and the report in the OFFICIAL REPORT and I drew the attention of those concerned to the fact that that was a wrong report in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Mr. DUKES

May I ask if objection was taken only when the Third Reading was requested?

Mr. ERNEST BROWN

May I say that objection was taken on the last Amendment called and the Third Reading was never called?

Mr. SPEAKER

That is so. Objection was taken on the second Amendment, standing in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Altrincham, on page 4159 of the Order Paper. The Third Reading was never called.

Mr. BEAUMONT

And that will appear in future in the OFFICIAL REPORT?

Mr. SPEAKER

Yes. That will appear in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.

It being after half-past Eleven of the Clock upon Tuesday evening, Mr. SPEAKER adjourned the House, without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.

Adjourned at Nineteen Minutes after Twelve o'Clock.