HL Deb 06 November 1986 vol 481 c1242

A message was brought from the Commons that they have made the following orders: That, when the Committee on the Bill reports the Bill to the House, further proceedings on the Bill shall be suspended until the next Session of Parliament: That if a Bill is presented in the next Session in the same terms as those in which the Channel Tunnel Bill stood when proceedings thereon were suspended in this Session—

  1. (a) the Bill shall be ordered to be printed and shall be deemed to have been read the first and second time;
  2. (b) if the Committee has reported that it has gone through the Bill, the Bill shall be deemed to have been reported from a Select Committee;
  3. (c) if the Committee has reported that it has not completed its consideration of the Bill—
    1. (i) the Bill shall stand committed to a Select Committee of the same Members as the Members of the Committee in this Session;
    2. (ii) all Petitions presented in this Session which stand referred to the Committee and which have not been withdrawn shall stand referred to the Committee in the next Session;
    3. (iii) any minutes of evidence taken and any papers laid before the Committee in this Session which have been reported to the House shall stand referred to the Committee in the next Session;
    4. (iv) the Instruction [17th July] shall be an Instruction to the Committee;
    5. (v) only those Petitions mentioned in subparagraph (ii) above, and any Petition which may be presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office and in which the Petitioners complain of any matter which has arisen during the progress of the Bill before the Committee in the next Session, shall stand referred to the Committee;
    6. (vi) any Petitioner whose Petition stands referred to the Committee in the next Session shall, subject to the Rules and Orders of the House and to the Prayer of his Petition, be entitled to be heard by himself, his Counsel or Agents upon his Petition provided that it is prepared and signed in conformity with the Rules and Orders of the House, and the member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents in favour of the Bill against that Petition;
    7. (vii) the Committee shall have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it;
    8. (viii) three shall be the Quorum of the Committee;
    9. (ix) any person registered in this Session as a parliamentary agent entitled to practice as such in opposing Bills only who, at the time when proceedings on the Bill were suspended in this Session, was employed in opposing the Bill shall be deemed to have been registered as such a parliamentary agent in the next Session:
  4. (d) the Standing Orders and practice of the House applicable to the Bill, so far as complied with or (in the case of the Standing Orders relating to Private Business) dispensed with in this Session, shall be deemed to have been complied with or (as the case may be) dispensed with in the next Session; and
  5. (e) if the Bill is reported, or is deemed by virtue of paragraph (b) above to have been reported, from a Select Committee in the next Session, it shall thereupon stand re-committed to a Standing Committee.

That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.