§ 2.57 p.m.
§ The Lord Chancellor (Lord Mackay of Clashfern):My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to consolidate the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 and provisions of Part IV of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Bill read a first time, and to be printed.