Lords Sitting of 20 June 1907

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Killery's Divorce Bill [H.L.]—Order of the Day for the Second Reading read; Counsel called in; witnesses examined; Moved that the Bill be now read 2a; the same was agreed to. Bill read 2aaccordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill.—Read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 80.)
Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]—Read 2a (according to order).
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:—Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 3) [H.L.].
The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
Grays and Tilbury Gas Bill.—Read 3a, and passed.
York (Micklegate) Strays Bill [H.L.]; Pasley Children Legitimisation Bill [H.L.]. —Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Taff Vale Railway Bill; Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Bill.—Read 3a, with the Amendments; and passed, and returned to the Commons.
London County Council (Money) Bill. —Committed.
Brockenhurst Gas Bill.—Returned from the Commons with the Amendment agreed to.
Boston Spa Gas Bill.—Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
Murphy Grimshaws Divorce (Validation) Bill [H.L.].—Minutes of evidence and proceedings before this House on the Second Reading, together with the documents deposited in the case, returned from the Commons.
Great Northern and City Railway Bill. —Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the; opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table. The orders made on the 30th of May last and the 4th instant discharged, and Bill committed.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  COLONIES: ANNUAL.
  No. 523. Ashanti (Report for 1906). Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  INDIA (LOANS RAISED IN INDIA).
  Return of all loans raised in India, chargeable on the revenues of India outstanding at the commencement of the half-year ended the 31st March, 1907, with the rates of interest and total amount payable thereon, etc.

  CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.
  List of all pensions granted during the year ended the 31st March, 1907, and payable under the provisions of Section 9 (1) of the, Civil List Act, 1901.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  BOARD OF EDUCATION (BUILDING REGULATIONS, ELEMENTARY).
  Building regulations, being principles to be observed in planning and fitting up new buildings for public elementary schools; together with rules as to construction and certain requirements as to plans. Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS AND PESTS BILL [H.L.]
  Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
  TERRITORIAL AND RESERVE FORCES BILL.
  Brought from the Commons and read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Tuesday next.—(The Earl of Portsmouth). (No. 78).
LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS BILL.
Brought from the Commons and read 1a, and to be printed. (No. 79).

STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL [H.L.]
Bill read 3a (according to order).
THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord LOREBURN): My Lords, I have six pages of Amendments to propose in this Bill, and I shall say a very few words in regard to them. The Bill is one which has been introduced in pursuance of recommendations of the Statute Law Revision Committee. The revised edition already comes down to the year 1896, and the purpose of this Bill is to bring it down to the year 1900, and so close the century. Pursuant to the usual practice, the Bill has been sent to the various Departments concerned, and the Amendments which I have to propose are the suggestions of the Departments. They are all entirely and solely for the purpose of accurately representing what the law is in view of the repeals and qualifications in more recent legislation. The matter is extremely technical, but there is not the least ground for supposing that there is any change at all made in the law. All that is intended is to have a faithful record of what the Statute Law is. Accordingly I propose, following the course adopted by my predecessor, to move the whole of these Amendments en bloc.
Moved, "That the Amendments be added to the Bill."—(The Lord Chancellor).
On Question, Motion agreed to.
Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
House adjourned at twenty minutes before Five o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.