HL Deb 14 July 1959 vol 217 c1203

6.58 p.m.

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, this is the Bill which your Lordships may remember I mentioned when introducing the Town and Country Planning Bill as being a Bill which the Secretary of State for Scotland intended to introduce by extracting the Scottish parts of that Bill and re-enacting them in that form, a procedure which our predecessors, the Labour Government, did conveniently with the Bill in 1947. It therefore follows the procedure of a Consolidation Bill. 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 referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.