Lords Sitting of 2 May 1884

MINUTES.
Took the Oath for the First Time—The Lord Bishop of Liverpool.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading—Electric Lighting Provisional Order* (75); Public Health (Confirmation of Bye-Laws)* (76).
Second Rending—Marriages Legalization (Wood Green Congregational Church) (66).
Third Reading—Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Provisional Order * (61), and passed.

MARRIAGES LEGALIZATION (WOOD GREEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH) BILL.—(No. 66.)
(The Lord Carrington.)
MARRIAGES LEGALIZATION (WOOD GREEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH) BILL.—(No. 66.)

  SECOND READING.
  Order of the Day for the Second Beading read.
  LORD CARRINGTON, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, the object of the Bill was to make legal marriages which had taken place in this church through inadvertence, it not having been properly licensed.
  Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a." —(The Lord Carrington.)
  THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid, he must repeat what he had said on other occasions when Bills of this kind had been introduced into their Lordships' House—namely, that in his view it was a scandal to the law that such Bills should from time to time be necessary in order to legalize marriages in places which had not been registered. He had been in communication with the President of that branch of the High Court of Justice which had matrimonial causes under its jurisdiction, and it was his intention shortly to introduce a Bill for the purpose of dealing generally with cases of this kind, and with others in which doubts might exists as to the validity of marriages, on merely formal grounds.
  Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.

  PUBLIC HEALTH (CONFIRMATION OF BYE LAWS) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Public Health Act, 1875, so far as relates to the confirmation of Byelaws—Was presented by the Lord CARRINGTON; read 1a. (No. 76.)
  House adjourned at half past Four o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.