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No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day.
28 June 1715. |
47. No Bill shall be read twice the same day; no Committee of the Whole House shall proceed on any Bill the same day as the Bill has been read the Second time; no report shall be received from any Committee of the Whole House the same day such Committee goes through the Bill, when any amendments are made to such Bill; and no Bill shall be read the Third time the same day that the Bill is reported from the Committee, or the order of commitment is discharged.
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Commitment of Bills.
27 March 1621. |
48. - (1) Unless the House otherwise orders, Bills are committed after the Second Reading for a date to be appointed.
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(2) 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 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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Amendments on Third Reading.
8 July 1930. |
49. No amendment, other than a privilege amendment, shall be moved upon the Third Reading of a Public Bill unless notice of the amendment has been given to the Clerk not later than the day preceding that on which the amendment is to be moved, in sufficient time to enable the amendment to be printed and circulated in the form in which it is to be moved.
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Commons Bills, if not taken up in twelve sitting days, to be dropped and not to be further proceeded with except after eight days' notice.
4 August 1871. |
50. When a Bill brought from the House of Commons shall have remained on the Table of this House for twelve sitting days without any Lord giving notice of the Second Reading thereof, such Bill shall not be further proceeded with in the same session, except after eight days' notice given by a Lord of the Second Reading thereof.
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Printing of Bills brought from the Commons.
9 November 1961. |
51. - (1) If a Public Bill is passed by the Commons and is carried up to the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments at a time when this House is not sitting, and if it is for the convenience of this House that copies of the Bill should be circulated before the Bill is read a First time, the Bill shall be deemed to have been brought from the Commons and the Clerk of the Parliaments shall arrange for the printing and circulation of copies of the Bill and any Explanatory Notes thereto.
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(2) Likewise, if a Public Bill is returned from the Commons with amendments or Reasons at a time when this House is not sitting, the Clerk of the Parliaments may, pursuant to this Standing Order, arrange for the printing and circulation of any such amendments and Reasons.
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Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.
5 May 1971. |
52. There shall be a Select Committee consisting of twelve Lords, who shall be appointed on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor 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:
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(1) Consolidation Bills whether public or private;
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(2) Statute Law Revision Bills;
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(3) 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;
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(4) 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;
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(5) 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;
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(6) any Affirmative Instrument which but for the provisions of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 would have been enacted by a Consolidation Bill, whether public or private, or by a Statute Law Revision Bill.
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No clause to be annexed to a Bill of Aid or Supply foreign to the matter.
9 December 1702. |
53. The annexing of any clause or clauses to a Bill of Aid or Supply, the matter of which is foreign to and different from the matter of the said Bill of Aid or Supply, is unparliamentary and tends to the destruction of constitutional Government.
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