§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (VISCOUNT HALDANE)My Lords, this Bill purposes to consolidate and simplify the great mass of enactments relating to forgery and kindred offences. The Bill has already been before your Lordships in the last session of Parliament, and should you 78 assent to its Second Reading to-day I propose to move that it be referred to a Joint Committee of both Houses in order that its provisions may be investigated.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a.
§ Then it was moved, "That it is desirable that the said Bill be referred to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament" (The Lord Chancellor); agreed to: Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Commons to communicate this Resolution and desire their concurrence thereto.