§ 3.1 p.m.
§ Lord Williams of MostynMy Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Amendments to Standing Order 40 are intended to give effect to our decision on 24th July to meet on Thursdays at 11 a.m. and to take Starred Questions at 3 p.m. Most of the other amendments were proposed by the Procedure Committee in the third and fifth reports. The amendment to Standing Order 47 717 implements the recommendation that Peers in charge of Bills should move a Motion after Second Reading to determine the type of Committee to which the Bill will be referred. The others are drafting amendments to bring Standing Orders up to date. Your Lordships will be pleased to hear that a new edition of Standing Orders, incorporating those amendments, should they be approved, will be published for the start of the new Session.
Moved, That the Standing Orders relating to public business be amended as follows:
Standing Order 37 (Short and time-limited debates)
In paragraphs (1) and (2), leave out "Short Debate" and insert "balloted debate".
Standing Order 40 (Arrangement of the Order Paper)
In paragraph (1), at end insert ", except on Thursdays, when business other than Unstarred Questions may be entered before Starred Questions".
In paragraph (3), at beginning insert "Subject to paragraph (1),".
In paragraph (3), leave out "except Starred Questions".
In paragraph (6) leave out "on a draft order laid under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 or".
In paragraph (7), leave out ", (5) and (6)" and insert "to (6A)".
Standing Order 47 (Commitment of bills)
Leave out paragraph (1) and insert—
"(1) After second reading, Bills are committed to a committee on a motion in the name of the Lord in charge of the Bill (except that in case of a Bill of Supply or a Bill certified by the Speaker as a Money Bill the House may order that the Bill be not committed.)"
Standing Order 51 (Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills)
In paragraph (6), leave out "Northern Ireland Act 1974" and insert "Northern Ireland Act 2000".
Standing Order 64 (Sessional Committees)
Leave out "Delegated Powers and Deregulation Committee" and insert
"Constitution Committee
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
Economic Affairs Committee"
Leave out "European Communities Committee" and insert "European Union Committee".
Standing Order 72 (Affirmative Instruments)
For Standing Order 72(1) substitute:
"72.—(1) No Motion for a resolution of the House to approve an Affirmative Instrument shall be moved until:
(a) except in the case of any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern 718 Ireland Act 2000, or a draft remedial order or remedial order laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998, or a draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, or any subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under that Act, there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments;
(b) in the case of a draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee; and
(c) in the case of a draft remedial order or remedial order laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998, there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Joint Committee on Human Rights:
Provided that the report is laid
such periods to be calculated in the manner prescribed by Schedule 2 to the Act; and
- (i)in the case of a draft remedial order, within 60 days of the laying of the draft order or
- (ii)in the case of an order not approved in draft, within 119 days of making the order,
(d) in the case of a Hybrid Instrument, the proceedings under Private Business Standing Order 216 or 216A have been terminated."
Standing Order 73 (Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments)
In paragraph (1) leave out "Northern Ireland Act 1974" and insert "Northern Ireland Act 2000".
In paragraph (1) leave out "and any draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994".
In paragraph (1) after "Human Rights Act 1998" insert "and any draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, or any subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under that Act".—(Lord Williams of Mostyn.)
On Question, Motion agreed to; it was ordered that a message be sent to the Commons to acquaint them with the amendment to Standing Order 51, and that the Standing Orders relating to Public Business be printed as amended. (HL Paper 189)