§ Lord DenhamMy Lords, it may be for the convenience of the House if I announce that consideration of Commons Amendments on the Insolvency Bill will be adjourned at approximately 7 p.m. for approximately one hour and that during that adjournment a Motion to disapprove the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules will be taken.
§ Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Bill [H.L.]
§ Swansea City Council (Tawe Barrage) Bill [H.L.]
§ Sonia Ann Billington and Norbury Billington (Marriage Enabling) Bill [H.L.]
§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Aberdare)My Lords, I beg to move the first of the two procedural Motions standing in my name on the Order Paper, and to speak to the second, as they both have the same purpose.
I very much regret that there has been a printer's error in the first Motion and that the second paragraph was not correct. I can read it out if your Lordships wish, but the correct paragaph was contained in the Green Paper's Notices and Orders of the Day and is also available in Xerox form in the Printed Paper Office.
The purpose of these two Motions is to enable the Bills that are listed on the Order Paper to continue their progress through Parliament in the next Session if that is the wish of the promoters. Similar Motions have been moved at the end of previous Sessions in both Houses and there is nothing unusual in what I am proposing. 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;
1093 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.