§ Order for Second Reading read.
11.40 pm§ The Solicitor-General (Sir Ian Percival)I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
This is a consolidation Bill. Its purpose is to bring together in one enactment the principal enactments relating to the British Steel Corporation. As usual, the Joint Committee has considered the Bill, and we are greatly indebted to it for checking and assuring us that it makes no change in the law.
On that basis, I commend the Bill to the House.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read a Second time.
§ Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House.—[Mr. Mather.]
§ 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.
723§ Bill accordingly read the Third time and passed, without amendment.