§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
This, too, is a Bill of pure consolidation approved by the Joint Select Committee on the same day as the Bill just dealt with—1st December, 1971.
When the three-year experiment on British Standard Time lapsed at the end of October, 1971, it plainly became sensible to consolidate the three Acts of 1922, 1925 and 1947 in this Bill. That is what the Bill now does.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read a Second time.
§ Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House.—[Mr. Murton.]
§ Committee tomorrow.