Lords Sitting of 18 December 1936

Preamble
The House met at eleven of the clock, The EARL OF ONSLOW on the Woolsack.
Lord Passfield—Affirmed.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.

EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendment agreed to.
PUBLIC ORDER BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.
TRUNK ROADS BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.

CLEARING OFFICE (SPAIN) AMEND MENT No. 2 ORDER, 1936.
Order, dated 17th December, 1936, made by the Treasury under Sections 1 and 3 of the Debts Clearing Offices and Import Restrictions Act, 1934:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) for affirmative Resolution and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

THE RECESS.
THE EARL OF LUCAN: My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend the Leader of the House, I beg to move, That the House on its adjournment do adjourn for business, other than Judicial Business, until the 26th of January, except that if it appears to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor that the public interest

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requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during such adjournment, the Lord Chancellor may give notice to the Peers that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice, and shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to that time.
Moved, That the House on its adjournment do adjourn for business, other than Judicial Business, until the 26th of January, except that if it appears to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during such adjournment, the Lord Chancellor may give notice to the Peers that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice, and shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to that time.—(The Earl of Lucan).
On Question, Motion agreed to, and ordered accordingly.

PONTYPOOL GAS ORDER, 1936.
WATFORD AND ST. ALBANS GAS ORDER, 1936.
HARTLEPOOL GAS ORDER, 1936.
ST. IVES (CORNWALL) GAS ORDER, 1936.
BOGNOR GAS ORDER, 1936.
BURGESS HILL AND ST. JOHN'S COMMON GAS ORDER, 1936.
BATH GAS (No. 2) ORDER, 1936.
SOUTHAMPTON GAS ORDER, 1936.
LORD TEMPLEMORE: My Lords, I beg to move that these Special Orders be agreed to.
Moved, That the Special Orders, as reported from the Special Orders Committee yesterday, be approved.—(Lord Templemore).
On Question, Motion agreed to.

KIRKBURTON SHELLEY AND SHEPLEY GAS ORDER, 1936.
TAUNTON GAS ORDER, 1936.
LORD TEMPLEMORE: My Lords, I beg to move that these Special Orders be agreed to, with an addition.
Moved, That the Special Orders, as reported from the Special Orders Committee yesterday, be approved, with and addition.—(Lord Templemore).
On Question, Motion agreed to.

CLEARING OFFICE (TURKEY) (No. 2) ORDER, 1936.
LORD TEMPLEMORE: My Lords, on the Motion that this Order be approved, an explanation is, I think, due to your Lordships. This is an Order made by the Treasury on the 27th November, 1936, under Section 1 of the Debts Clearing Offices and import Restrictions Act, 1936, and on the 2nd September, 1936, a Trade and Clearing Agreement was signed between the United Kingdom and Turkey which came into force on the 17th September, 1936. On the 8th September, 1936, the Treasury made an Order under the Debts Clearing Offices and Import Restrictions Act of 1934, setting up an Anglo-Turkish Clearing Office in London and providing that the sterling collected by the Clearing Office should be applied in accordance with the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 2nd September, 1936. When Parliament reassembled in October after the Summer Recess, steps should have been taken, in accordance with the Act of 1934, to lay the Order before Parliament and to submit it for the approval of each House within 28 Parliamentary days, that is, by the 20th November, 1936. Unfortunately, by an oversight, which is very much regretted by my right honourable friend and by His Majesty's Government, these steps were not taken and the Order accordingly lapsed on the 29th November, 1936. The Act provides, however, that such lapsing of an Order shall be without prejudice to anything done under it or to the making of a new Order. The Treasury accordingly made, on the 27th November, a new Order which would operate from the 30th November, the date following that on which the earlier Order lapsed. Except for the necessary changes of dates, the new Order, which the House is now being asked to approve, repeats the provisions of the Order of the 8th September. I beg to move.
Moved, That the Special Order, as reported from the Special Orders Committee yesterday, be approved.—(Lord Templemore).
On Question, Motion agreed to.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.

ROYAL COMMISSION.
The following Bills received the Royal Assent:

Expiring Laws Continuance,

Trunk Roads,

Public Order.

House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.
House adjourned at twenty minutes before twelve o'clock.