§ The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES (Lord Aberdare)My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Its purpose is to enable the Anglian Water Authority Bill, which is now being considered in another place, to resume its progress through Parliament next Session. It is in no way the fault of the Promoters that the Bill will not have received Royal Assent by the end of this Session. The corresponding procedural Motion was agreed in another place last Thursday. I beg to move.
§ 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 fit, 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 Five o'clock on the day before the close of the present Session;
§ 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 1119 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.—(Lord Aberdare.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to; and a Message ordered to be sent to the Commons accordingly in reply to their Message of Thursday last.