SPECIAL ORDERS

HL Deb 13 November 1974 vol 354 c782

THE EARL OF LISTOWEL

My Lords, I beg to move the second Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider all such Special Orders as are referred to them and that as proposed by the Committee of Selection the Lords following, with the Chairman of Committees, be named of the Committee:—

• E. Cork and Orrery,
• E. Cowley,
• L. Archibald,
• B. Bacon,
• L. Beaumont of Whitley,
• L. Cawley,
• L. Clwyd,
• L. Fletcher,
• L. Reay,
• L. Stamp,
• L. Stow Hill,
• L. Teviot,
• L. Wise:

and that until further order—

1. (a) the Committee shall not take into consideration any Special Order unless it has been referred to them by the Chairman of Committees on the ground that it appears to him that the Order would, but for the provisions of the Act authorising the making of the Special Order, require to be enacted by a Private or Hybrid Bill;
2. (b) if the Committee are of the same opinion as the Chairman of Committees, that is to say, that the Special Order is of the kind described in Standing Order 216(3)(b) paragraphs (4) and (6) of that Order shall apply, but with the omission from paragraph (6) of the words "In every case" to the end;
3. c) if the Committee are not of that opinion, they shall report that fact to the House forthwith and shall take no further action on the Special Order;
4. (d) Standing Order 216(8) shall have effect as though for the words "of the Special Orders Committee thereon" there were substituted the words "thereon of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and (in the case of any Special Order referred to the Special Orders Committee) that of the Special Orders Committee."—(The Earl of Listowel.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.