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THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (EARL JELLICOE) rose to move, That Standing Order No. 43 be amended as follows:
In line 10, after "commitment" insert "(or re-commitment)".
§ The noble Earl said: My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. May I remind your Lordships that last May this House amended Standing Order No. 43 to allow the discharge of a Committee stage if it appeared to the Peer in charge of the Bill that no Amendment had been tabled and that no Peer wished to speak in Committee. This procedure has been used on a number of occasions and I think your Lordships will agree that, by and large, the small change has been a useful one.
§ However, when we amended Standing Order No. 43 the question of discharging a Committee on Re-commitment stage had not been considered by the Procedure Committee. The Procedure Committee subsequently recommended that a Re-commitment stage should be treated in the same way as an ordinary Committee stage, namely, that the Peer in charge of the Bill should be able to discharge the order of Re-commitment. Your Lordships will doubtless recall that the Second Report of the Procedure Committee was approved by this House on March 2, and the Motion standing in my name merely implements the Procedure Committee's recommendations. My Lords, I beg to move.
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Moved, That Standing Order No. 43 be amended as follows—
In line 10, after ("commitment") insert ("(or re-commitment) ")—(Earl Jellicoe.)
§ On Question. Motion agreed to.