HC Deb 05 December 1951 vol 494 cc2441-2

Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 9, after "In", insert "section one of"—agreed to.

Mr. Deputy-Speaker

The next Amendment is in page 3, line 11, after "and" insert "in this Act"

Mr. Hutchison

I did not know, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that I had moved the previous Amendment in page 3, line 9, after "In" to insert "section one of" With respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, the discussion so far has been on line 36, at the end, insert new Clause "A," and then come the two Amendments which I have still to move.

Mr. Deputy-Speaker

Is the hon. Gentleman referring to the Amendment in line 11, because we already have the other two?

Mr. Hutchison

With respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I suggest that we have not, in fact, got the other two, and if it is my fault I ask your pardon. We have not discussed the Amendment in page 3, line 9. The discussion which has taken place so far has been on the new Clause.

Mr. Deputy-Speaker

That is the question I have just put and to which we have agreed. No one spoke to the Amendment and it was carried. After all, there is no need to speak to an Amendment if one does not wish to.

Mr. Edward Shackleton (Preston, South)

I think all hon. Members share the disadvantage of the Under-Secretary of State for War. Whether it was our fault or not, we did not notice that it had been moved, and I feel, both in the interests of the House and of the Under-Secretary of State who obviously wishes to make some explanation, it would be of assistance if you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, could find some way within the Rules of Order to allow the Amendment to be moved and discussed.

Mr. Deputy-Speaker

As the hon. Gentleman knows, I cannot go back. He can talk on the next Amendment if he likes.

Lords Amendment: In page 3, line 11, after "and" insert "in this Act"

Mr. Hutchison

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This Amendment is consequential on the one which has slipped past undiscussed and unnoticed. The previous Amendment was, in fact, a definition Amendment to show the two types of use of the word "orders" in the Bill. The word "orders" is used in two different connotations in Clause 1 and elsewhere, and it is merely for the purpose of clarification regarding the meaning of the word that the previous Amendment was inserted, upon which this one is consequential.

Question put, and agreed to.