The Standing Orders of the House of Lords         House of Lords

 
 
Public Petitions
Public Petitions.
24 June 1969.
    75. - (1) No Petition, other than a Petition relating to Judicial or Private Business, shall be received, unless it is presented by a Lord and bears his signature.
 
      (2) A Lord may present a Petition in person to the House, or may deposit it with the Clerk of the Parliaments, or may hand it in at the Table of the House.
 
      (3) In presenting a Petition in person to the House, a Lord may only read out the Prayer of the Petition and state the number of Petitioners who have signed it.
 
      (4) A Petition to which this Standing Order applies shall not be printed, unless a Lord gives notice of a Motion relating to it for a particular day.
 
 
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