§ 2.56 p.m.
§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee read.
§ Moved, That the House do now resolve itself into Committee.—(The Earl of Listowel.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly:
§ [The Earl of Drogheda in the Chair.]
§ Clause 1:
§ Independence of Burma.
§ 1.—(1.) On the appointed day, Burma shall become an independent country, neither forming part of His Majesty's dominions nor entitled to His Majesty's protection.
§ (2) In this Act, the expression "the appointed day" means the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-eight.