HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL [H.L.]

HL Deb 27 April 1949 vol 162 cc115-6

5.25 p.m.

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, this is a consolidation Bill. I am moving the Second Reading in order that it may go before the appropriate Committee which will go through the Bill and see that it is a consolidation Bill and nothing but a consolidation Bill. I beg to move that the Bill be now read a second time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read 2^a.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Bill read 2^a, and referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.