HL Deb 05 July 1949 vol 163 c893

5.42 p.m.

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, this is another of these Consolidation Bills. They are coming thick and fast. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.

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

On Question, Bill read 2*. Bill, together with a Memorandum laid before the House on the 22nd June last, and any representations made with respect thereto under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949, referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.