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§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (VISCOUNT JOWITT)My Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to declare the meaning of references in Acts of Parliament to the laying of instruments or other documents before Parliament or before either House of Parliament and the effect during a vacancy in the office of the Lord Chancellor or of the Speaker of the House of Commons of the requirement in Section four of the Statutory Instruments Act, 1946, to send notification forthwith to each of them of an instrument's being made so as to operate before it has been laid before Parliament. I beg to move that it be read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Bill read 1a, and to be printed.