§ Lord ABERDAREMy Lords, I beg to move the first of the next two Motions standing in my name on the Order Paper. Perhaps I may speak to the third Motion while moving the second. Both are procedural Motions with the same purpose: to enable these two Bills, the first of which is a Lords Bill and the second a Commons Bill, to continue their progress through Parliament in the next Session. It is in no way the fault of the Promoters that the Bills have not been through both 1129 Houses before the end of this Session. I beg to move the second Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
§ 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 he lodged in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than five o'clock on the 28th July 1977:
§ 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.— (Lord Aberdare.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and a Message ordered to be sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith.