ADJOURNMENT. (Hansard, 29 August 1939)

§ The Prime Minister

I beg to move: That this House, at its rising this day, do adjourn till Tuesday next, provided that if it is represented to Mr. Speaker by His Majesty's Government that the public interest requires that the House should meet at any earlier time during the Adjournment, and Mr. Speaker is satisfied that the public interest does so require, he may give notice that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and the Government Business to be transacted on the day on which the House shall so meet shall, subject to the publication of notice thereof in the Order Paper to be circulated on the day on which the House shall so meet, be such as the Government may appoint, but subject as aforesaid the House shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to the day on which it shall so meet, and any Government Orders of the Day and Government Notices of Motions that may stand on the Order Book for Tuesday next or any subsequent day shall be appointed for the day on which the House shall so meet, provided also that in the event of Mr. Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Chairman of Ways and Means, in his capacity as Deputy-Speaker, be authorised to act in his stead for the purposes of this Resolution. The Motion is in the same form as I moved it last week. Let me repeat, in moving this Motion, that it is my intention, as the right hon. Gentleman suggested, to try and keep the House fully informed and continuously, and, therefore, while Tuesday is the day mentioned here, I do anticipate that it will be necessary for me to ask that the House may be called together again before then.