§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (VISCOUNT SIMON)My Lords, in a couple of sentences I beg to move the Second Reading of this Bill. It is a pure Consolidation Bill, the object being to put into this single Statute what is now to be found in three separate Acts of Parliament. If your Lordships give the Bill a Second Reading it will be sent to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Bill read about ita, and referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.