HC Deb 09 March 1966 vol 725 cc2073-4

Ordered, That

  1. (1) the Promoters of every Private Bill which has originated in this House in the present Session of Parliament shall have leave to suspend any further proceeding thereon in order to proceed with that Bill, if they think fit, in the next Session;
  2. (2) the Agent for any such Bill intending to suspend further proceeding thereon shall give notice to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office not later than noon on the last day of the present Session of their intention to suspend further proceeding thereon provided that all fees due upon any such Bill up to that date be paid;
  3. (3) a list of all such Bills, with a statement of the stage at which they have been suspended shall be prepared by the Clerks in the Private Bill Office and printed;
  4. (4) every such Bill shall be presented to the House not later than the third day on which the House sits after the next meeting of Parliament;
  5. (5) there shall be deposited with every Bill so presented a declaration signed by the Agent for the Bill, stating that the Bill is the same, in every respect, as the Bill with respect to which proceedings have been suspended at the last stage of its proceedings in the present Session;
  6. (6) every Bill so presented shall be laid by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the Table of the House on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the causes of Her Majesty's calling the Parliament have been declared thereunto;
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  7. (7) every Bill so laid on the Table shall be deemed to have been read the first time and if the Bill has been read a second time before its suspension shall be deemed to have been read the first and second time;
  8. (8) any Bill which, under the provisions of paragraph (7) of this Order, is deemed to have been read the first time or to have been read the first and second time shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read;
  9. (9) all Petitions against any Bill presented in the present Session which stood referred to the Committee on the Bill shall stand referred to the Committee on the same Bill in the next Session;
  10. (10) in relation to any Bill to which this Order applies, Standing Order 127 (Right of audience before committees on opposed bills), relating to Private Business, shall have effect as if the words "under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against bill)" were omitted;
  11. (11) any Standing Orders complied with in respect of any Bill originating in the House of Lords, upon which the proceedings have been suspended in that House, shall be deemed to have been complied with in respect of such Bill if the same is brought from the House of Lords in the next Session, and any notices published or given and any deposits made in respect of such Bill for the present Session shall be held to have been published, given and made respectively, for the Bill so brought from the House of Lords in the next Session;
  12. (12) no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceeding on a Bill in respect of which fees have already been incurred during the present Session;
  13. (13) any report of the Examiner in respect of a Petition for additional Privisions in a Bill presented in the present Session, shall stand referred to the Standing Orders Committee in the next Session;
  14. (14)
    1. (a) all Standing Orders complied with in respect of any Public Bill presented during the present Session shall be held to have been complied with in respect of any Bill presented in the next Session, which is the same in every respect as the Bill which was presented in the present Session; and where the Examiner has already reported that the Standing Orders have been complied with in respect of any such Bill, he shall report only whether any further Standing Orders are applicable;
    2. (b) any Petition against the Bill presented in pursuance of any Order of the House of the present Session and not withdrawn shall stand referred to any Select Committee to whom the Bill may be committed in the next Session.

That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]

To be communicated to the Lords.