§ The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)I have a short statement to make on business, Mr. Speaker.
The proposed order of business on Friday, 26th July, will be as follows:
Second Reading of the Governors' Pensions Bill [Lords].
Committee and remaining stages of the Affiliation Proceedings Bill [Lords] and of the Housing Bill [Lords], which are consolidation Measures.
Consideration of Lords Amendments to the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions)Bill, which is a Private Member's Bill, which the Government propose to facilitate; and to the Coal-Mining (Subsidence)Bill, which are expected to be received from another place tomorrow, Thursday and consideration of the Motion to approve the Draft West Indies (Federation)Order.
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Ordered,
That this day Business other than the Business of Supply may be taken before Ten o'clock; and that if the first two Resolutions proposed shall have been agreed to by the Committee of Supply before half-past Nine o'clock, the Chairman shall proceed to put forthwith the Questions which he is directed to put at half-past Nine o'clock by paragraph (6)of Standing Order No. 16 (Business of Supply).—[Mr. R. A. Butler.]
§ Proceedings of the Committee of Ways and Means exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. I (Sittings of the House).—[Mr. R. A. Butler.]