§ The Chairman of Committes (Lord Aberdare)My Lords, the two Motions which appear in my name on the Order Paper are the usual Motions which come before the House at the end of each Session in order to allow Private Bills to continue on their way through Parliament in the next Session. The first Motion refers to those Bills which started in this House and which have not yet completed their passage through it, and the second Motion relates to those Bills which started their progress in another place and have now reached this House.
I beg to move the first Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
Moved, That the promoters of the Bills have leave to suspend any further proceedings thereon, in order to proceed with the Bills, 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 three o'clock on the day before the close of the present Session, and that all fees due thereon up to that period shall have been paid;
That such Bills shall be deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than three o'clock on the third day on which the House shall sit after the commencement of the next Session of Parliament, with a declaration annexed to each, 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 Bills 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 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 Bills 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.