Lords Sitting of 18 February 1930

Preamble
The House met at a quarter past four of the clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.
ROTHESAY TRAMWAYS AND OMNIBUSES ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that His Majesty had (by Commission) revoked certain Letters Patent and had appointed the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess of Reading, the Lord Kintore (E. Kintore), the Lord Granard (E. Granard), the Earl Waldegrave, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Lucan, the Viscount Hutchinson (E. Donoughmore), the Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Plymouth, the Earl of Birkenhead, the Viscount Sumner, the Viscount Hailsham, the Lord Denman, the Lord Hylton, the Lord Stanmore, the Lord Colebrooke, the Lord Buckmaster, the Lord Muir Mackenzie, the Lord Hanworth, the Lord Marley, the Chairman of Committees for the time being, and any person who shall have been Chairman of Committees, Speakers of the House in the absence of the Lord Chancellor: The said Commission was read.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:

Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Bradford Extension).

Also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:

East Kent District Water [H.L.],

Mid Kent Water [H.L.],

Liverpool Exchange Company [H.L.],

Sidmouth Electricity [H.L.],

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United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution [H.L.],

Ascot District Gas and Electricity [H.L.].

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

GRANGE AND CARTMEL DISTRICT GAS ORDER, 1930.
Special Order proposed to be made on the application of the Grange and Cartmel District Gas and Waterworks Company:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

WEST LANCASHIRE RURAL ELECTRICITY ORDER, 1930.
Special Order in respect of the parishes or townships of Halsall, Hesketh with Becconsall, North Meols, Rufford, Scarisbrick and Tarleton, in the rural district of West Lancashire, in the County Palatine of Lancaster:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

RAWMARSH GAS ORDER, 1930.
  HALSTEAD GAS ORDER, 1930.
  Report from the Special Orders Committee, That no Petition has been presented praying to be heard against the Special Orders; that they have received and considered a Report from the Board of Trade upon the Orders; that in connection with such Report they have considered the question of "vires" and are of opinion that there is nothing in these Orders to which they think it necessary to call the attention of the House: Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
PADIHAM GAS ORDER, 1930.
Report from the Special Orders Committee, That no Petition has been presented praying to be heard against the Special Order, and that there is nothing in this Order to which they think it necessary to call the attention of the House: Read, and ordered to lie on the Table

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
LORD MARLEY: My Lords, there is no business on the Order Paper. I move that the House do now adjourn.
Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
House adjourned at twenty minutes past four o'clock.