§ Petitions for Private Bills
§ 2. No Private Bill shall be presented to the House unless a petition for the same, signed by the parties, being promoters of the Bill, or some of them, has been previously presented to the House with a printed copy of the proposed Bill annexed.
§ Deposit of re-housing statement
§ 47.—(1) In the case of a Bill whereby it is proposed—
- (a) to authorise the acquisition compulsorily or by agreement of any specified land on which houses are standing; or
- (b) to revive, or to extend the time limited for the exercise of, any power for such acquisition;
- (i) the name of that area;
- (ii) the total number of those houses in that area; and
- (iii) the total number (so far as can be ascertained) of persons residing in them:
§ Provided that, in the case of a Bill whereby it is proposed to revive, or to extend the time limited for the exercise of, any such powers as aforesaid originally conferred by an Act passed not more than four years before the date of the deposit of the Petition for the Bill, then, if a statement in pursuance of this Order, or of any former Standing Order corresponding thereto, was deposited in respect of the Bill for that Act, the houses included in that statement shall be excluded in determining whether a statement is required under this Order to he deposited in respect of the Bill in question.
§ (2) The areas to which this Order applies are London and boroughs, urban districts and rural parishes in England and Wales and outside London.
§ (3) In this Order the expression "house" means any house or part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling.
§ Withdrawal of Memorials
§ 75A. Any Memorialist may withdraw his Memorial, on a requisition to that effect being deposited in the Private Bill Office, signed by him or by the Agent who deposited the Memorial; and where any such Memorial is signed by more than one person, any person signing the Memorial may withdraw from the Memorial by a similar requisition, signed and deposited as aforesaid.
§ Power of Chairman of Ways and Means to select Chairman of Committees on Unopposed Bills
§ 88A. The Chairman of Ways and Means shall have power to select from the panel appointed under paragraph (2) of Standing Order 111 one Member to act as Chairman at every sitting of a Committee on an Unopposed Bill at which neither the Chairman of Ways and Means nor the Deputy Chairman is present, and at any such sitting the Member so selected shall be a Member of the Committee in addition to the three Members selected under paragraph (2) of Standing Order 111.
§ Minutes of Evidence
§ 131A. Whenever copies of the Minutes of the evidence taken before a Committee on an Opposed Private Bill are required they shall be printed at the expense of the parties unless the Committee consider such printing unnecessary.
§ Committees on Unopposed Bills
§ 132.—(1) The Chairman of Ways and Means shall, when present, be ex officio Chairman of every Committee on an Unopposed Private Bill.
§ (2) Every such Committee shall have the assistance of the Counsel to Mr. Speaker.
§ Chairman to report on allegations of bill, etc.
§ 142.—(1) Unless the parties promoting the Bill have informed the Committee that it is not their intention to proceed with the Bill 617 the Chairman of a Committee on a Private Bill, when reporting the Bill to the House, shall report whether the allegations of the Bill have been found to be true.
§ (2) Where any alteration has been made in the Preamble of the Bill, the Chairman shall report such alteration, together with the grounds of making it, and shall report whether the allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, as amended, have been found to be true.
§ (3) Where the parties promoting the Bill have informed the Committee that it is not their intention to proceed with the Bill, the Chairman shall report to the House accordingly when reporting the Bill.
§ Presentation of Petitions for Private Bills
§ 162A.—(1) Every Petition for a Private Bill shall be presented to the House by being deposited in the Private Bill Office.
§ (2) Except as provided in Standing Order 220 (Regulations as to London County Council (Money) Bills) no such Petition (not being a Petition for a Personal Bill) shall be received after the twenty-seventh day of November unless it has been endorsed by the Chairman of Ways and Means.
§ Presentation of Private Bills
§ 163.—(1) Where, in respect of a petition for a Private Bill, the Examiner has reported that the Standing Orders have been complied with the Bill shall be presented to the House not earlier than the day before, nor later than the day after the first sitting day in February or, if the report from the Examiner is laid on the Table of the House on or after the first sitting day in February, not later than the day after the report was so laid.
§ (2) Where, in respect of a petition for a Private Bill, the Examiner has reported that the Standing Orders have not been complied with, and the House on consideration of a report from the Standing Orders Committee that the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with, gives leave to the parties to proceed with the Bill, the Bill shall be presented to the House not later than the following day, or, if such leave was given before the first sitting day in February, not earlier than the day before, nor later than the day after the first sitting day.
§ (3) Where, in respect of a petition for a Private Bill, the Examiner has made a special report then—
- (a) if the Standing Orders Committee determine that the Standing Orders have not been complied with and the House, upon consideration of a report from that Committee that the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with, gives leave to the parties to proceed with the Bill, the Bill shall be presented to the House within the time limited by paragraph (2) of this Order;
- (b) if the Standing Orders Committee report that the Standing Orders have been complied with, the Bill shall be presented to the House not later than the following
618 day or, if the report was made before the first sitting day in February, not earlier than the day before nor later than the day after the first sitting day.
§ (4) A Private Bill shall he presented to the House by being deposited in the Private Bill Office and shall be laid by one of the Clerks of that Office on the Table of the House on the next sitting day.
§ (5) In this Order the expression "sitting day" means a day on which the House sits.
§ Petitions for additional provision
§ 167A.—(1) A Petition for additional provision in a Private Bill shall have annexed thereto a printed copy of the provisions proposed to he added.
§ (2) No such Petition shall he received unless it has been endorsed by the Chairman of Ways and Means.
§ (3) No such Petition shall he received in the case of a Bill brought from the House of Lords.
§ Certain matters to he expressed in titles of Private Bills
§ 167B. In the case of any Bill to which, in the event of originating in this House, Standing Order 64 (Consents of Members of companies, &c., not being promoters, in case of certain Bills originating in this House) will apply, the name of any company, society, association or partnership not being promoters of the Bill, upon which powers are proposed to be conferred or whose constitution is proposed to he altered by the Bill shall he expressed in the title of the Bill.
§ Copies of Petitions
§ 172. A copy of any Petition deposited in the Private Bill Office praying to be heard against, or otherwise relating to, a Private Bill shall, on application and payment by any party interested, be supplied to him by the agent concerned for the Petition not later than the day following that on which the application and payment is received.
§ Opposed Business
§ 174.—(1) No opposed business shall be proceeded with at the time of Private Business.
§ (2) Any such business may, if the Chairman of Ways and Means so directs, be appointed for consideration at seven of the clock on any Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
§ (3) Business appointed for consideration at seven of the clock shall be arranged in such order as the Chairman of Ways and Means may determine.
§ Inspection of Petitions for Private Bills
§ 195. Every Petition for a Private Bill deposited in the Private Bill Office together with the printed copy of the proposed Bill annexed thereto, shall be open to the inspection of all parties.
619§ Notice of adjournment of Committees
§ 199A. Notice, in writing, shall be given by the Clerk attending a Committee on a Private Bill to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office of the day and hour to which that Committee is adjourned.
§ Laying of plans, etc.
§ 239A. Whenever any plans, sections, books of reference or maps have been deposited with any public department in relation to any Special Procedure Order by which it is proposed to authorise the compulsory acquisition or user of land or the construction or alteration of works, duplicates of those documents shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office