HL Deb 29 October 1984 vol 456 cc352-3
Lord Aberdare

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

Perhaps I may at the same time speak to the third Motion. Both of these are the usual Motions at the end of a Session in order to enable these Bills to proceed on their way through Parliament in the next Session. It is in no way the fault of the promoters of any of these Bills that they have not managed to complete their passage through both Houses before the end of the Session. I beg to move.

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 and it was ordered that a Message be sent to the Commons to desire their concurrence in these resolutions in so far as they apply to the Leicestershire Bill [H.L.], the Oxfordshire Bill [H.L.] and the Surrey County Council Bill [H.L.].