§ Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read.
§ 10.56 p.m.
Lieut.-Colonel MOORSI beg to move, "That the Lords Amendments be now considered."
In view of the rather voluminous nature of these Amendments, I hope that the House will give me a minute to explain them. When the Bill was in Committee, owing to a compromise which had been made, certain Amendments were carried through and accepted very quickly, and the Bill was left in a somewhat untidy condition. Unfortunately, the time was very short between the Committee stage and the Report stage, and therefore the Government had not time to do the necessary tidying up. The Measure went to another place, and the Government took the opportunity of making the Bill a more workable and efficient instrument. In the other place there were only two types of Amendments introduced, namely, those by the Government which were of a purely drafting nature, and two or three slight amendments to meet the representations of the butchers. There is nothing that disturbs the substance of the Bill.