§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD SHEPHERDMy Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(Lord Shepherd.)
1253§ On Question, Bill read 2a: Committee negatived.
§ Then, Standing Order No. 41 having been dispensed with (pursuant to Resolution), Bill read 3a, and passed, and returned to the Commons.