§ Ordered,
§ That so much of the Lords Message [18th October] as relates to the Greater London Council (General Powers) (No. 2) Bill and the Severn-Trent Water Authority Bill be now considered.
§ Ordered,
§ That the Promoters of the Greater London Council (General Powers) (No. 2) Bill and the Severn-Trent Water Authority Bill shall have leave to suspend proceedings thereon in order to proceed with the Bills in the next Session of Parliament, provided that in the case of each Bill the Agents for the Bill give notice to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office of their intention to suspend further proceedings not later than the day before the close of the present Session and that all fees due on the Bill up to that date be paid;
§ Ordered,
§ That on the fifth day on which the House sits in the next Session the Bills shall be presented to the House;
§ Ordered,
§ That there shall be deposited with each Bill a declaration signed by the Agents for the Bill, stating that the Bill is the same in every respect as the Bill at the last stage of its proceedings in this House, in the present Session;
§ Ordered,
§ That each Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has 346 been presented and, when so laid, shall be read the first, second and third time and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read;
§ Ordered,
§ That no further fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which fees have already been incurred during the present Session;
§ Ordered,
§ That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]