§ 3.7 p.m.
§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Aberdare)My Lords, I beg to move the first Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. In doing so I shall speak, if I may, to the other three. These are further Motions to enable Private Bills to be carried over from this Session to the next.
The first Motion relates to a Commons Bill now in this House. The second Motion refers to Lords Bills now in the House of Commons. The third relates to Commons Bills still in that House, and the fourth Motion to a Lords Bill still in this House.
Moved. That the Promoters of the Bill have leave to suspend any further proceedings thereon, in order to proceed with it if they shall think fit, in the next 911 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, if the Bill is brought from the Commons in the next Session, the Agent for the Bill shall deposit in the Private Bill Office a declaration, signed by him, stating that the Bill is the same, in every respect, as the Bill which was brought from the Commons 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.—(The Chairman of Committees.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and it was ordered that a Message be sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith and to desire their agreement.