§ (1.) When any statute or regulation has been made by the Commissioners, a notice of its having been made, and of the place where copies of it can be obtained, shall be published in the London Gazette, and the statute or regulalation shall be laid as soon as may be before both Houses of Parliament, and shall not be valid until it has been approved by Her Majesty the Queen in Council.
§ (2.) If either House of Parliament within forty days, exclusive of any period of prorogation, after a statute or regulation has been laid before it, presents an address praying the Queen to withhold her assent from the statute or regulation, or any part thereof, no further proceedings shall be taken on the statute or regulation, or on the part thereof to which the address relates, but this provision shall be without prejudice to the making of a new statute or regulation.
§ (3.) The Senate or Convocation of the University of London, or any other person or body directly affected by any such statute or regulation, may, within thirty days after the notification thereof in the London Gazette, petition Her Majesty in Council to withhold her approval of the whole or any part thereof.
§ (4.) Her Majesty in Council may refer any such petition to a Committee of the Privy Council, with a direction that the Committee hear the petitioner personally or by counsel, and report specially to Her Majesty in Council on the matter of the petition.
§ (5.) Thereupon it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, either to declare her approval of the statute or regulation in whole or in part, or to signify her disapproval thereof in whole or in part, but any such disapproval shall be without prejudice to the making of a new statute or regulation.
§ (6.) The cost of any petition under this section may be regulated by the Committee to which the petition is referred.
§ THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE moved, in Sub section (3), to leave out the words "thirty days" and to insert instead thereof the words "three months."
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.