LORD DENMANasked the Lord Chancellor if the Local Government (England and Wales) Electors Act, 1888 Repeal Bill [H. L.] maybe on the Paper for Second Reading on Thursday, the 13th of December?
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HALSBURY)said, that the noble Lord had greatly enlarged the Question on the Paper, but he had no difficulty in answering it. The mere negation of the Question, "That the Bill be now read a second time," did not prevent a Bill being put down a second time on the Paper. In earlier times it was not an uncommon thing to move that a Bill be rejected; but now they had adopted the courteous form of postponing it. If, however, Bills were put down from time to time, it might be necessary to revert to the earlier practice. The noble Lord now asked whether it would be irregular to again put down the Bill which he had mentioned, and in reply he had to say that it certainly would not be irregular.