§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (LORD SIMONDS)My Lords, this is a Consolidation Bill and it will be referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills. I beg to move that the Bill be now read a second time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(The Lord Chancellor)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a, and (together with the Memorandum laid before the House on the 26th of March last under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949) referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.