DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL (Hansard, 7 July 1969)

§ THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (LORD SHACKLETON)

My Lords, I rise to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. I would tell your Lordships that the arrangements we are contemplating for this Committee will follow closely those we made last Session for the Gaming Bill, and if any of your Lordships would like to remind yourselves of the procedure we then advocated and which was followed, it is set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT of June 26 last year.

765 I would draw attention to the fact that Amendments to the Bill may be tabled by any Member of your Lordships' House, and such Amendments will be circulated in the normal way. We also established the practice last year, which is consistent with our general approach to Committees in this House, that any noble Lord may attend the meetings of the Committee, whether or not he is named of the Committee, and may move Amendments or speak to them, but unless he is so named he may not vote. These arrangements, which were considered by the Procedure Committee, seem to have worked successfully last Session and I hope that they will prove equally successful for this Bill. I beg to move.

Moved, That a Committee of 12 Lords with the Chairman of Committees be appointed to consider the Bill, and that the Bill be committed to such Committee;

That the procedure of the Committee shall be, so far as possible, that of a Committee of the Whole House;

That the Committee shall first meet at 3 o'clock on Monday the 14th of July, and thereafter have power to adjourn from time to time;

That the Reports of the Committee's debates and the Minutes of the Committee's proceedings be published from day to day as appendices to Hansard and the Minutes of Proceedings respectively; and That the Lords following, with the Chairman of Committees, be named of the Committee:—

E. Buckinghamshire
L. Amulree
L. Arwyn
L. Beaumont of Whitley
L. Brown
L. Crowther
L. Drumalbyn
L. Erroll of Hale
L. Geddes
B. Hylton-Foster
L. Inglewood
B. Phillips