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Order ID:370

UK Parliament — House of Lords

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2025 — 23rd October 45 Commitment of bills [27 March 1621]

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).

If, at the time appointed for the House to go into committee on a bill, no amendment has been set down and it appears that no Lord wishes to speak to the bill or to table a manuscript amendment, the Lord in charge of the bill may, having given notice, move, “That the order of commitment (or re-commitment) be discharged”: provided that the Question shall not be put on any such motion if a single Lord objects.

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2025 — 23rd October 45 Commitment of bills [27 March 1621]

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).

If, at the time appointed for the House to go into committee on a bill, no amendment has been set down and it appears that no Lord wishes to speak to the bill or to table a manuscript amendment, the Lord in charge of the bill may, having given notice, move, “That the order of commitment (or re-commitment) be discharged”: provided that the Question shall not be put on any such motion if a single Lord objects.