Order ID:375

There shall be a select committee consisting of twelve Lords, who shall be appointed at the commencement of every session to join with a committee of the House of Commons as the Joint Committee on Consolidation etc. Bills, to which shall be referred:

consolidation bills whether public or private;

statute law revision bills;

bills prepared pursuant to the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949, together with any memoranda laid pursuant to that Act and any representations made with respect thereto;

bills to consolidate any enactments with amendments to give effect to recommendations made by one or both of the Law Commissions together with any report containing such recommendations; and

bills prepared by one or both of the Law Commissions to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in accordance with Law Commission recommendations, of certain enactments which (except in so far as their effect is preserved) are no longer of practical utility, whether or not they make other provision in connection with the repeal of those enactments, together with any Law Commission report on any such bill.

There shall be a select committee consisting of twelve Lords, who shall be appointed at the commencement of every session to join with a committee of the House of Commons as the Joint Committee on Consolidation etc. Bills, to which shall be referred:

consolidation bills whether public or private;

statute law revision bills;

bills prepared pursuant to the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949, together with any memoranda laid pursuant to that Act and any representations made with respect thereto;

bills to consolidate any enactments with amendments to give effect to recommendations made by one or both of the Law Commissions together with any report containing such recommendations; and

bills prepared by one or both of the Law Commissions to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in accordance with Law Commission recommendations, of certain enactments which (except in so far as their effect is preserved) are no longer of practical utility, whether or not they make other provision in connection with the repeal of those enactments, together with any Law Commission report on any such bill.