§ THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF LISTOWEL)My Lords, in moving this Motion, I should like to explain the purpose of the two Motions standing in my name. They are to enable two Private Bills to continue their progress through Parliament in the next Session. It is not due to the fault of the Promoters that the Bills have not been through both Houses of Parliament before the end of this Session. A similar Motion to carry over the two Bills into the next Session has been agreed in another place. If your Lordships agree to this Motion I will formally move the sub-sequent Motion on the Clyde River Purification Bill.
Moved, That the Promoters of the Bill have leave to suspend any further proceedings thereon in this Session, in order to proceed with the Bill, if they shall think lit, in the next Session of Parliament, provided that notice of their intention to do so be lodged in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than three o'clock on the 4th August 1971;
That such Bill shall be deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than three o'clock on or before the third day on which the House shall sit after the commencement of the next Session of Parliament, 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;
That the proceedings on 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;
That the Standing Orders by which the proceedings on Bills are regulated shall not apply, in the next Session of Parliament, to such Bill in regard to any of the stages through which the same shall have passed during the present Session.—(The Earl of Listowel.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.