§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD STANMOREMy Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be read a second time, and I trust that your Lordships will agree to pass it through all its stages at this sitting as it is essential that it should receive the Royal Assent to-day.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(Lord Stanmore.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a.
§ Committee negatived: Then (Standing Order No. XXXIX having been suspended) Bill read 3a, and passed.