HC Deb 20 July 1976 vol 915 cc1671-81

Committee

1.—(1) The Standing Committee to which the Health Services Bill (in this Order referred to as 'the Health Bill') is allocated shall report the Bill to the House on or before the 3rd day of August 1976.

(2) The Standing Committee on the Health Bill shall meet at half-past Ten o'clock and half-past Four o'clock on each day (except Mondays and Fridays) on which the House sits on or after the 21st day of July 1976, until the conclusion of proceedings on the Bill.

(3) At a Sitting of the Standing Committee at which any Proceedings on the Health Bill are to be brought to a conclusion under a Resolu- tion of the Business Sub-Committee the Chairman shall not adjourn the Committee under any Order relating to the sittings of the Committee until the Proceedings have been brought to a conclusion.

(4) No Motion shall be made in the Standing Committee relating to the sitting of the Committee except by a Member of the Government, and the Chairman shall permit a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes, and from a Member who opposes, the Motion, and shall then put the Question thereon.

(5) No Motion shall be made in the Standing Committee to postpone any Clause, Schedule, new Clause or new Schedule but the resolutions of the Business Sub-Committee may include alterations in the order in which Clauses, Schedules, new Clauses and new Schedules are to be taken in the Standing Committee.

(6) No dilatory Motion with respect to, or in the course of, Proceedings on the Health Bill shall be made in the Standing Committee except by a Member of the Government, and the Question on any such Motion shall be put forthwith.

(7) On the conclusion of the Proceedings in any Committee on the Bill the Chairman shall report the Bill to the House without putting any Question.

Report and Third Reading

2.—(1) The Proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading of the Health Bill shall be completed in one allotted day and shall be brought to a conclusion at eleven o'clock on that day; and for the purposes of Standing Order No. 43 (Business Committee) this Order shall be taken to allot to the Proceedings on Consideration such part of that day as the Resolution of the Business Committee may determine.

(2) The Business Committee shall report to the House their resolutions as to the Proceedings on Consideration of the Health Bill, and as to the allocation of time between those Proceedings and Proceedings on Third Reading, not later than the second day on which the House sits after the day on which the Chairman of the Standing Committee reports the Health Bill to the House.