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§ Lord WINTERBOTTOMMy Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to make provision to enable the United Kingdom to accede to a Convention for the Reciprocal Recognition of Proof Marks of Small Arms done at Brussels on 1st July 1969; to amend the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868; to extend that Act and the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1950 to Scotland and Northern Ireland; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(Lord Winterbottom.)
§ On Question, Bill read 1a, and to be printed.