§ The Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Colonel Clifton Brown)I beg to move,
Where it is intended to make application for a Private Bill a draft of the notices relating to the Bill proposed to be published in accordance with the requirements of Standing Orders 10 and 11 shall twenty-one days at least before the 4th day of December be deposited at the office of the Ministry of Information.If it appears to the Minister of Information that the publication of such notices in accordance with those Orders would be contrary to the national interest he shall not later than seven days before the said date so notify the Promoters of the Bill and the Chairman of Ways and Means, and in that case those notices shall not be published, and in lieu thereof such notices of the proposed Bill shall be published within such time and in such manner as the Chairman of Ways and Means may direct.Where the Minister does not issue any such notification the notices, as published, shall not differ from the draft deposited with him except so far as he by general or special direction may allow.In the case of a Bill for which the Petition is deposited or proposed to be deposited by leave of the House after the 27th day of November the provisions of this Order shall apply subject to the following modification that is to say for the reference to the 4th day of December there shall be substituted a reference to the date on which the Petition for the Bill is deposited in the Committee and Private Bill Office.I have to point out that this is a new Motion appearing for the first time on Sessional Orders, and it is made entirely in the interests of security.
§ Question put, and agreed to.