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section (Parliamentary Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Committee) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act

2008,”.’.

Parliamentary Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee

Dr Brian Iddon

Dr Desmond Turner

Dr Ian Gibson

NC6

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	There shall be a Committee of Members of both Houses of Parliament, to be

called the Parliamentary Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee, to

consider human fertilisation, embryology and related ethical issues, and to make

recommendations.

(2)	The Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to

report from time to time, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply

information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity

within the Committee’s order of reference.

(3)	The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee shall consist of fifteen

members of the House of Lords nominated by the Lord Speaker and fifteen

members of the House of Commons nominated by the Speaker of the House of

Commons, to be appointed on the passing of this Act to serve for the duration of

the present Parliament and thereafter to be appointed at the commencement of

each Parliament to service for the duration of that Parliament.

(4)	Any causal vacancy occurring by the reason of the death, resignation, or

incapacity of a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee

shall be filled by the nomination of a member by the Lord Speaker or the Speaker

of the House of Commons, as the case may be.

(5)	The powers and duties of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee

may be exercised and discharged by any twelve members thereof, and the

Committee shall be entitled to sit and transact business whether Parliament be

sitting or not, and notwithstanding a vacancy in the membership of the

Committee.

(6)	Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Committee may regulate its own procedure.’.

Order of the House [12th MAY 2008]

That the following provisions apply to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

[Lords]:

Commital

1.	The following shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House—

(a)	Clauses 4, 11, 14, and 23 and Schedule 2;

(b)	any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to the termination of

pregnancy by registered medical practitioners.

2.	The remainder of the Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

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Proceedings in Committee

3.	Proceedings in Committee of the whole House shall be completed in two

days.

4.	Those proceedings shall be taken on each of those days as shown in the first

column of the following Table and in the order so shown.

5.	The proceedings on each of those days shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second

column of the Table.

TABLE

	Proceedings	Time for conclusion of proceedings
	First day
	Clause 4	Three hours after the commencement
		of proceedings on the Bill
	Clause 11 and Schedule 2	Three hours after the commencement
		of proceedings on Clause 11

	Second day
	Clause 14 and 23	Three hours after the commencement
		of proceedings on the Bill
	Any new Clauses or new Schedules	Three hours after the commencement
	relating to the termination of	of proceedings on any such new
	pregnancy by registered medical	Clauses or new Schedules
	practioners

6.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to the

proceedings in Committee of the whole House.

7.	Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 17th June 2008.

8.	The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

9.	When the provisions of the Bill considered, respectively, by the Committee

of the whole House and by the Public Bill Committee have been reported to

the House, the Bill shall be proceeded with as if it had been reported as a

whole to the House from the Public Bill Committee.

Consideration and Third Reading

10.	Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

day on which those proceedings are commenced.

11.	Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

12.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Other proceedings

13.	Any other proceedings on the Bill (inlcuding any proceedings on

consideration of any message from the Lords) may be programmed.

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Order of the Committee [3rd June 2008]

That—

(1)	the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday

3rd June) meet—

(a)	at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd June;

(b)	at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 5th June;

(c)	at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 10th June;

(d)	at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 12th June;

(e)	at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th June;

(2)	the proceedings shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 3; Clause

5; Schedule 1; Clauses 6 to 10; Clauses 12 and 13; Schedules 3 and 4; Clauses

15 to 22; Clauses 24 to 28; Schedule 5; Clauses 29 to 56; Schedule 6; Clauses

57 to 65; Schedule 7; Clause 66; Schedule 8; Clauses 67 to 69; new Clauses

(not relating to the termination of pregnancy by registered medical

practitioners); new Schedules (not relating to the termination of pregnancy by

registered medical practitioners); remaining proceedings on the Bill.

(3)	the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th June.

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Revised 10 June 2008