§ Considered on Report (according to Order).
§ MAIDSTONE CORPORATION (TROLLEY VEHICLES) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL
§ House in Committee (according to Order), on Report from an Unopposed Bill Committee.
§ House resumed: Bill reported without amendment; Report received.
§ PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDER (GREAT YARMOUTH NEW BRITANNIA
PIER) BILL
§ House in Committee (according to Order), on Report from an Unopposed Bill Committee.
§ House resumed: Bill reported without amendment; Report received.
869§ PIER AND (HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDER (GREAT YARMOUTH PORT AND HAVEN)BILL
§ House in Committee (according to Order), on Report from an Unopposed Bill Committee.
§ House resumed: Bill reported without amendment; Report received.
§ PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDER (LANGSTONE HARBOUR) BILL
§ House in Committee (according to Order), on Report from an Unopposed Bill Committee.
§ House resumed: Bill reported without amendment; Report received.
§ REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND) REGULATIONS, 1962
§ 2.56 p.m.
THE MINISTER OF STATE, HOME OFFICE (EARL JELLICOE)My Lords, I feel your Lordships will probably wish me to give you a brief explanation of these Regulations. However, in view of the recommendation of the Special Orders Committee, I also feel that your Lordships wall not wish me to detain you with a lengthy disquisition on them. Briefly, the Regulations flow from the consolidation of the electoral law of Northern Ireland as an Act of the Northern Ireland Parliament passed this year. For some years past it has been found convenient to combine together in Northern Ireland three sets of electoral registers; those to the United Kingdom Parliament; those to the Northern Ireland Parliament; and those to local authorities there. So far as this Parliament is concerned, the matter has been regulated by the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations, 1950, as amended by subsequent legislation. The Regulations which I am now commending to your Lordships make further amendment to the 1950 Regulations as a result of the Northern Ireland electoral law to which I have already referred. Their purpose, nevertheless, remains the combining of these various electoral registers. My Lords, I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations, 1962, be approved.—(Earl Jellicoe.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.