LEGISLATION - GENERAL NOTES

In the list of Bills which follows, the type of Bill is shown at the left-hand margin below the title by the following codes:

A	Government Bills (also denoted by the word 'Government' after the title)
B	Consolidation Bills
W	Private Members' Bills (under the ballot procedure). The number after refers to position in ballot
X	Private Members' Bills (under SO No 58)
Y	Private Members' Bills (under the Ten Minute Rule, SO No 19)
Z	Private Members' Bills starting in the House of Lords

ABBREVIATIONS:

1R	First Reading: date of presentation (no debate at this stage except for Class Y Bills, which have short introductory speeches)
2R	Second Reading (the debate on the principle of the Bill)
MR	Money Resolution (normally taken after Second Reading: shown below only if taken at another time)
SRC	Second Reading Committee (2R taken in Committee: formal 2R in whole House next day unless otherwise stated)
SGC/WGC	Scottish or Welsh Grand Committee consideration of principle (equates with SRC)
Comm	Committee Stage (the detailed examination of the Bill). If no committee is named (eg SC A) a committee of the whole House is indicated
Comm**	House of Lords Committee of the Whole House, taken in a committee room. Debate published in daily Hansard
PBC	Public Bill Committee (committee Stage in the House of Lords, when the consideration is not undertaken by a committee of the whole House)
SPBC	Special Public Bill Committee (committee Stage in the House of Lords, when the consideration is not undertaken by a committee of the whole House. Public evidence is taken)
SSC/SSSC	Special Standing Committee (Special Scottish Standing Committee) on a Bill, where public evidence is taken
SC A, (B, etc)	Standing Committee A, B, etc
CN	Committee negatived. (Indicates that there was no debate at committee stage in the House of Lords)
OCD	Order of Commitment discharged (no debate at committee stage in the House of Lords)
Rep	Report Stage (detailed review of the Bill as amended in committee)
3R	Third Reading (final debate on the Bill)
LA	Lords' Amendments considered in the House of Commons
CA	Commons' Amendments considered in the House of Lords
1st(2nd)Scot SC	1st (2nd) Scottish Standing Committee
GM	Allocation of Time Motion (Guillotine motion)
[HL]	Indicates a Bill which started in the House of Lords
HYBRID BILL	A Public Bill which affects the private interests of particular persons or corporate bodies as distinct from the private interests of all persons or bodies
PROPOSED BILL	Indicates that a motion for leave to bring in a Bill under the Ten Minute Rule (SO No 19) was negatived
P2R (Rep, 3R)	Provisional date for 2nd Reading etc. For Private Members' Bills (if set down for a Private Members Bill Friday) this is followed, in brackets, by the position of the Bill in the order of business for that day, thus giving some indication of the likelihood of debate.