§ THE ACTING CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (LORD STANMORE)My Lords, the object of the proposed Amendments to Standing Orders which I am about to move is to allow shareholders in companies more opportunity for learning the purpose of Private Bills before the statutory Wharnecliffe meeting takes place. With your Lordships' permission I will move them en bloc.
§ Moved, That the Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, etc., be amended as follows:
§ Standing Order No. 71,
§ Page 38, line 37, after "situate" insert "the first of such insertions being not earlier than the fourth day of December"
§ Page 38, line 41, leave out "ten" and insert "twenty-one"
§ Page 38, line 42, after "meeting" insert "stating the offices at which copies of the Bill may be inspected and obtained, and"
§ Page 39, line 8, leave out "seventh" and insert "twenty-first"
§ Page 39, line 8, leave out "last" and insert "first"
§ Page 39, line 42, at end insert:
§ Provided that in the case of a Bill for which the Petition is deposited or proposed to be deposited after the twenty-seventh day of November the foregoing provisions of this Order shall apply subject to the following modifications—
- (a) the first insertion of the advertisement calling the meeting shall be not earlier than the date of the deposit of such Petition; and
- (b) the circular to proprietors shall be sent by post or delivered not earlier than the date specified in the notice containing a concise summary of the purposes of the Bill as the date on which copies of the Bill may be inspected and obtained.—(Lord Stanmore.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ Standing Orders amended accordingly, and to be printed as amended.