§ Order for Second Reading read.
1.31 am§ The Solicitor-General for Scotland (Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn)I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
The Bill consolidates in their entirety the Water (Scotland) Acts of 1946 and 1949, the Water Act 1958 so far as it applies to Scotland and the bulk of the Water (Scotland) Act 1967, together with provisions relating to water in certain other enactments.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read a Second time.
§ Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House.—[Mr. Brooke.]
§ Bill immediately considered in Committee; reported, without amendment.
§ Motion made, and Question, That the Bill be now read the Third time, put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 56 (Third Reading), and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read the Third time and passed, without amendment.