POLLING DISTRICTS (COUNTY COUNCILS) BILL [H.L.]

HL Deb 22 May 1903 vol 122 cc1501-2

[SECOND READING.]

Order of the Day fur the Second Reading read.

LORD RIBBLESDALE

The object of this Bill is to allow a little more flexibility in the polling arrangements when they have been made. It appears that when the County Councils have made their polling arrangements, Sir Edward Clarke and Sir Robert Finlay both hold that those arrangements, when once made, are, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, incapable of being altered. It is obvious that circumstances may arise which may make it desirable that the polling arrangements should be changed, and this Bill will enable County Councils to change them.

Bill read 2^a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.