COAST PROTECTION BILL [H.L.] (Hansard, 24 November 1949)

§ LORD SHEPHERD

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do now consider the Commons Amendments to this Bill. In doing so, I desire to make a brief statement about our procedure to-day. This 969 Bill was introduced originally into your Lordships' House, and following its passage here it has been undergoing revision in another place. The Amendments there inserted in the Bill are now before us. They are largely agreed Amendments, which will not give rise to discussion, and I think it would meet the wishes of your Lordships if, instead of going through the eighty-odd Amendments that I am bound to ask the House to adopt, we took them in batches as they appear in each clause. I Would then move formally that we agree to the Amendments. I beg to move that the Commons Amendments be now considered.

§ LORD LLEWELLIN

My Lords, I have been carefully through these eighty-three Amendments which have been made to this Bill in another place. So far as I can see, no controversy is raised by any of them. If I may say so without being called out of order, I think that in this case the other place have acted as a very good revising Chamber to our original work. I do not believe that any noble Lord wishes to speak on any Amendment until we reach those to page 55, line 11; at the end of the Marshalled List. I understand that my noble friend Lord Clydesmuir would like to make a few remarks on behalf of Scotland upon that group of Amendments. If it is convenient to your Lordships, I should be content if down to that point these Amendments were put to the House en bloc.