§ 2.53 p.m.
§ THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (LORD MERTHYR) rose to move that the following Amendments to the Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, et cetera, consequent upon the coming into force on April 1, 1965, of certain provisions of the London Government Act, 1963, and the Water Resources Act, 1963, be approved:
| Standing Order 1, | line 2, leave out ("or metropolitan") |
| Standing Order 1, | line 27, leave out ("or metropolitan") |
| Standing Order 4A, | line 40, leave out ("or metropolitan") |
| Standing Order 25, | in the last paragraph leave out ("the London County Council") |
| Standing Order 32, | line 11, after ("River") insert ("Authority or Catchment") |
| Standing Order 33, | line 4, leave out first ("Board") and insert ("Authority") |
| Standing Order 33, | lines 10 and 11, leave out ("Board, or each of those Boards") and insert ("Authority or Board, or each of them") |
| Standing Order 36, | line 10, leave out ("metropolitan") |
| Standing Order 40, | leave out subsection (2) |
| Standing Order 42, | line 4, leave out first ("Board") and insert ("Authority") |
| Standing Order 42, | line 8, after the second ("the") insert ("Authority or") |
| Standing Order 43, | line 7, after ("River") insert ("Authority or Catchment") |
| Standing Order 47, | subsection (2), leave out ("(other than metropolitan boroughs)") |
§ The noble Lord said: My Lords, the Amendments which I am proposing to the Private Bill Standing Orders this afternoon, which are set out in a Marshalled List, are, with a few exceptions, made necessary by the passing of the London Government Act, 1963.
§ The Greater London Council and the new London boroughs came into being on July 31, 1963, the date of Royal Assent to the 1963 Act. Since then, they have existed side by side with the London County Council, the metropolitan boroughs and other local authorities in Greater London for the transitional 11 period until April 1, 1965, which was the date appointed for the disappearance of the superseded authorities. Your Lordships will remember that last July I moved a series of Amendments to the Standing Orders in order to provide for the deposit of various documents required by the Standing Orders with both the old and new authorities during this transitional period. The old authorities having now disappeared, it is necessary again to amend Standing Orders so as to remove allusions to them.
§ The exceptions that I mentioned in my opening words are the Amendments Nos. 4, 5, 8 and 9, which are made necessary by the passing of the water Resources Act, 1963. By Statutory Instrument under this Act, April 1, 1965, was the appointed day for the transfer of functions of the old river boards to the new river authorities, and I am now proposing consequential Amendments in the relative Standing Orders to provide for the deposit of Bills and ancillary documents with the new authorities. With the permission of the House I should like to take these Amendments en bloc and, if your Lordships agree, I will now move that the Amendments set out in the Marshalled List be agreed to.
§ Moved, That the Amendments as set out in the Marshalled List be agreed to.—(Lord Merthyr.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.