§ 2.44 p.m.
§ THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF LISTOWEL)My Lords, the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper is to provide for Private Bills introduced this Session and now before the House to continue their progress in the next Parliament without putting the promoters of these Bills, and such petitioners as there are against them, to the trouble and expense of depositing their Bills and petitions again after the Dissolution. Paragraph 10 of the Motion 1103 makes a similar provision for any petition which may be placed against a Hybrid Special Order, and also extends the time for depositing petitions against such Orders.
This Motion is in accordance with precedent, and a similar Motion is, I understand, being moved in another place to-day. I beg to move.
§ Moved—
- (1) That the promoters of every Private Bill which shall have been introduced into or presented to this House in the present Session of Parliament, shall have leave to introduce or present the same in the next Session of Parliament, provided that notice of their intention to do so be lodged in the Private Bill Office not later than Noon on the last sitting day of the present Session; and provided that all fees due by them thereon, up to that period, be paid;
- (2) That a list of all such Bills, with a statement of the stages at which they shall have arrived, shall be prepared in the Private Bill Office, and printed;
- (3) That every such Bill shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than Three o'clock on or before the third day on which the House shall sit after the next meeting of Parliament for business other than judicial business, with a declaration annexed thereto, signed by the agent, stating that the Bill is the same in every respect as the Bill at the last stage of the proceedings thereon in this House in the present Session;
- (4) That the proceedings on any such Bill shall, in the next Session of Parliament, be pro forma only in regard to every stage through which the same shall have passed in the present Session, and that no new fees be charged in regard to such stages;
- (5) That the Standing Orders by which the proceedings on Bills are regulated shall not apply to any Private Bill which shall have originated in this House in the present Session, in regard to any of the stages through which the same shall have passed;
- (6) That every certificate from the Examiners in respect of a Petition for Additional Provision in any Private Bill originating in the House of Commons, upon which the proceedings shall have been suspended in that House in the present Session, shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such petition in the next Session of Parliament;
- (7) That no petitioners shall be heard before the Committee on any Bill in the next Session unless their petition shall have been presented within the time limited in the present Session;
- (8) That any report of the Examiner in respect of a Petition for Additional Provision in a Bill presented in the present Session, shall stand referred to the Standing Orders Committee in the next Session;
- (9) That all Standing Orders complied with in respect of any Public Bill presented in the
1104 House of Commons during the present Session shall be held to have been complied with in respect of any Bill presented in that House in the next Session provided that the Bill presented in the next Session is the same in every respect as that which was presented in the present Session; and where the Examiner has already reported that the Standing Orders have been complied with in respect of any such Bill, he shall report only whether any further Standing Orders are applicable; - (10) That any petition presented in respect of any Special Order which stands referred to the Special Orders Committee in the present Session shall stand referred to that Committee in the next Session; further that paragraph (4) of Standing Order 216 in so far as it prescribes the time within which petitions must be deposited shall be dispensed with and that so much of the petitioning time as is unexpired on the day of prorogation shall run from the first sitting day after such prorogation.—(The Earl of Listowel.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to: Ordered that a Message be sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith.