Lords Sitting of 23 February 1939

ILKLEY GAS ORDER, 1939.
Special Order proposed to be made on the application of the Urban District Council of Ilkley:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) for affirmative Resolution and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

FENNY STRATFORD GAS ORDER, 1939.
Special Order proposed to be made on the application of the British Gas Light Company Limited, with respect to the Fenny Stratford undertaking of that company:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) for affirmative Resolution and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (HIGH COURT JUDGES) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1939.
Order, for the consideration of the Order by the India and Burma Orders Committee this day, discharged.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1939.
  GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (INDIA-BURMA FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT) ORDER, 1939.

    GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (SHAN STATES FEDERAL FUND) ORDER, 1939.
    Report from the India and Burma Orders Committee, That they have examined the Draft Orders as required by the Standing Orders of the House; that in their opinion the Orders do not raise important questions of policy and principle; that the Orders are founded on precedent; that in the opinion of the Committee the Orders can be passed by the House without special attention, and that no further inquiry is necessary before the House proceeds to a decision on the Resolutions to approve the said Orders:
    Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

SHEEP, MUTTON AND LAMB (IMPORT REGULATION) ORDER, 1939.
Report from the Special Orders Committee, That they have examined the Special Order as required by the Standing Orders of the House; that in their opinion the provisions of the Order raise important questions of policy and principle; that they comply with the terms of the Livestock Industry Act, 1937, under which the Order is submitted; that the Order is not founded on precedent; that in the opinion of the Committee the Order cannot be passed by the House without special attention, but that no further inquiry is necessary before the House proceeds to a decision on the Resolution to approve the said Order:
Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

OTTAWA AGREEMENTS (IMPORTATION OF MEAT) AMENDMENT ORDER, 1939.
Report from the Special Orders Committee, That they have examined the Special Order as required by the Standing Orders of the House; that in the opinion of the Committee the provisions of the Order raise the same important questions of policy and principle as are raised in the Sheep, Mutton and Lamb (Import Regulation) Order, 1939; that the Order is founded on precedent, inasmuch as it provides only for the amendment of an Order which has received already the approval of the House; that in the opinion of the Committee the Order cannot be passed by the House without special attention, but that no further inquiry is necessary before the House proceeds to a decision on the Resolution to approve the said Order:
Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

COUNTY OF LONDON ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY (SURREY) ORDER, 1939.
  CARDIFF GAS ORDER, 1939.

    CHELMSFORD GAS ORDER, 1939.
    ROSS GAS ORDER, 1939.
    Report from the Special Orders Committee, That no Petition has been presented praying to be heard against the Orders, and 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.