SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS BILL (Hansard, 4 August 1966)

§ Mr. Speaker

Before I call—[Interruption.] Order. Will hon. Members please leave the Chamber quietly.

Before I call the first new Clause which is selected, it might be for the convenience of the House if I indicate how the provisions of the guillotine Order will apply today.

The time which has elapsed between 3.30 this afternoon and the beginning of the consideration of the Bill has to be added to the time laid down in the Order of the House of 19th July. The result is that tonight the Chair is bound, by Order of the House, to end the consideration stage of the Bill at 37 minutes after 8.30, for that is the time which has passed since 3.30 today. The Question for the Third Reading of the Bill has to be put at 37 minutes after 11.30 p.m. tonight.

The House must also appreciate that when the Guillotine falls the question under discussion at that moment is disposed of in the usual way, but thereafter the Question on any Amendment moved by a member of the Government has to be put in the form "that the Amendment be made".

The first Amendment selected is new Clause 1. I think that it will be for the convenience of the House if, with this new Clause, we discuss new Clause 2—Reduction in cost of clerical work for local authorities—new Clause 6—Electrical and gas contracting and retailing public bodies—Amendment No. 73, in Clause 4, page 5, line 38, after "to", insert "but not in excess of".