HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Die Martis 2° Martii 1999
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Bristol.
Judicial Business
1. Head and others (A.P.) (Appellants) (formerly Docker and others (A.P.) (Appellants)) v. Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police (Respondent) (England)— The appeal of Albert Head, William Rea Lamont, Steven Rhodes and John Clark was presented and it was ordered that in accordance with Standing Order VI the statement and appendix thereto be lodged on or before 13th April next.
2. Reynolds (Respondent) v. Times Newspapers Limited and others (Appellants) (England)— The appeal of Times Newspapers Limited, Alan Ruddock and John Witherow was presented and it was ordered that in accordance with Standing Order VI the statement and appendix thereto be lodged on or before 13th April next.
3. MCC Proceeds Inc (incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware as trustee of The Maxwell Macmillan Realization Liquidating Trust) (Petitioners) v. Bishopsgate Investment Trust plc and others (Respondents)— The petition of MCC Proceeds Inc praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee (lodged 7th January).
4. Passmore (Petitioner) v. Morland plc and others (Respondents)— The petition of David John Passmore praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
5. Reynolds (Respondent) v. Times Newspapers Limited and others (Appellants) (England)— It was ordered that the appellants be allowed to prosecute the appeal without giving the usual security for costs as required by Standing Order.
Papers
6. Command Paper—The following paper was presented to the House by command of Her Majesty and ordered to lie on the Table:
Industrial Injuries—Report by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council in accordance with Section 171 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 reviewing the prescription of diseases induced by ionising and non-ionising radiation. (4280)
7. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999, laid under the Family Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1993; (—)
2. (i) Education (Budget Statements and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 1999— (486)
(ii) Education (Budget Statements) (Wales) Regulations 1999— (451)
laid under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
3. (i) Education (Amount to Follow Permanently Excluded Pupil) Regulations 1999— (495)
(ii) Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Capital Grants) (Wales) Regulations 1999— (440)
laid under the Education Act 1996;
4. Scottish Local Elections Amendment (No. 2) Rules 1999, laid under the Representation of the People Act 1983. (492)
8. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. (i) Accounts for 1997-98 of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General—
(ii) Report for 1997-98 of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils—
laid under the Science and Technology Act 1965;
2. Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Pensions Increase) Order 1999, laid under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act 1865.
Select Committee Reports
9. Statutory Instruments—The 11th Report from the Joint Committee was made on certain statutory instruments, including the following affirmative instruments:
Draft National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999;
Draft Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999;
Draft National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999;
Draft Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1999;
Draft Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1999;
Draft Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments - No. 1) Order 1999;
Draft Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Amendment Regulations 1999;
Draft Railways (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1999;
Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 1) Order 1999;
it was ordered that the Report be printed. (HL Paper 35)
10. European Communities—The following Reports from the Select Committee were made and ordered to be printed:
Future Financing of the EU: who pays and how? (6th Report—HL Paper 36)
Schengen and the United Kingdom’s Border Controls. (7th Report—HL Paper 37)
Public Business
11. Financial Services and Markets—It was moved by the Chairman of Committees that the Commons message of yesterday be now considered and that a Select Committee of eight Lords be appointed to join with the Committee appointed by the Commons, as the Joint Committee on Financial Services and Markets, to report on the consultative document on the draft financial services and markets bill presented by Her Majesty’s Command on 21st December 1998 and any further draft of the bill which may be laid upon the Table of both Houses by a Minister of the Crown;
That, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the Committee:
L. Burns
L. Eatwell
L. Fraser of Carmyllie
L. Haskel
L. Montague of Oxford
L. Poole
L. Taverne
V. Trenchard;
That the Committee have power to agree with the Commons in the appointment of a Chairman;
That the Committee have leave to report from time to time;
That the Committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;
That the Committee have power to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom;
That the minutes of evidence taken before the Committee from time to time shall, if the Committee think fit, be printed and delivered out;
That the Committee shall report by 30th April 1999;
and that the Committee do meet with the Committee appointed by the Commons this day at half past four o’clock in Committee Room 3A;
the motion was agreed to and a message was ordered to be sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith.
12. Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [HL]— The report was received; amendments were agreed to; an amendment was moved and (by leave of the House) withdrawn; it was ordered that the bill be printed as amended. (HL Bill 30)
13. Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill—A bill to reduce the age at which, and to make provision with respect to the circumstances in which, certain sexual acts are lawful; to make it an offence for a person aged 18 or over to engage in sexual activity with or directed towards a person under that age if he is in a position of trust in relation to that person; and for connected purposes was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 28)
14. Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill——It was ordered that the Explanatory Notes relating to the bill be printed. (HL Bill 28-EN)
15. Scottish Enterprise Bill—A bill to make provision with respect to the financial limits in section 25(2) of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 29)
16. Scottish Enterprise Bill—It was ordered that the Explanatory Notes relating to the bill be printed. (HL Bill 29-EN)
17. Financial Services and Markets—A message was brought from the Commons that they have ordered:
That the Committee appointed by them to join with a Committee of Your Lordships on Financial Services and Markets, do meet the Committee appointed by Your Lordships in Committee Room 3A this day at half-past four o’clock, as Your Lordships have proposed.
18. Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill—The report was received; amendments were moved and (by leave of the House) withdrawn; an amendment was agreed to; it was ordered that the bill be printed as amended. (HL Bill 31)
19. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [HL]— The report was received; amendments were moved and (by leave of the House) withdrawn; amendments were agreed to; an amendment was disagreed to (see division list); further consideration on report was adjourned.
20. National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (Amendment) Regulations 1999—It was moved by the Lord Sainsbury of Turville that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 16th February be approved; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
21. National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999—It was moved by the Lord Sainsbury of Turville that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 16th February be approved; the motion was agreed to.
22. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [HL]— The bill was further considered on report; amendments were moved and (by leave of the House) withdrawn; further consideration on report was adjourned after amendment 55.
The House was adjourned at fourteen minutes before ten o’clock
till tomorrow, half-past two o’clock.
MICHAEL DAVIES
Cler: Parliamentor:
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