INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL [H.L.] (Hansard, 12 April 1973)

§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, here again I beg to move that the Order of Re-commitment be discharged. I understand that no Amendments have been set down to this Bill and that no noble Lord has indicated a wish to move a manuscript Amendment or to speak in Committee. Therefore, unless any noble Lord objects, I beg to move. Your Lordships will remember that this is a pure consolidation Bill. The Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills made certain Amendments which they considered 778 necessary to improve the form of the Bill and to bring it into conformity with existing law. They considered that, as amended, the Bill is a pure consolidation Bill and represents existing law, and that therefore in its present form there is no point to which the attention of Parliament should be drawn. I therefore beg to move, pursuant to Standing Order No. 45(2), that the Order of Re-commitment be discharged.