§ 2.55 p.m.
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ EARL FORTESCUEMy Lords, on behalf of the noble and learned Viscount who sits on the Woolsack, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. I have to inform your Lordships that it is purely a Consolidation Bill.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a. —(Earl Fortescue.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a, and referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.