HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Die Jovis 5° Aprilis 2001
The House met at three o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Oxford.
Judicial Business
1. Director General of Fair Trading (Original Respondent and Cross-Appellant) v. First National Bank plc (Original Appellants and Cross-Respondents)—The appeal was set down for hearing and referred to an Appellate Committee.
2. Regina v. Lambert (Appellant) (On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))—The appeal was set down for hearing and referred to an Appellate Committee.
Papers
3. Command Paper—The following paper was presented to the House by command of Her Majesty and ordered to lie on the Table:
Armed Forces—Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body Service Medical and Dental Officers Supplement to the Thirtieth Report 2001. (4994)
4. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. (i) Dual-Use Items (Export Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2001— (1344)
(ii) Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) (No. 5) Regulations 2001— (1366)
(iii) Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 2001— (1370)
(iv) Financial Services (EEA Passport Rights) Regulations 2001— (1376)
laid under the European Communities Act 1972;
2. Waddeton Fishery Order 2001, laid under the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967; (1380)
3. Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001, laid under the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998; (1390)
4. Education (Teachers’ Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001, laid under the Education Reform Act 1988; (1391)
5. Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) Order 2001, laid under the Education Act 1994. (1392)
5. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Account for 1999-2000 of the Barrow Community Education Action Zone, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
2. Account for 1999-2000 of the Commission for Racial Equality, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the Race Relations Act 1976.
Public Business
6. Business of the House—It was moved by the Baroness Jay of Paddington that Standing Order 46 (No two stages of a bill to be taken on one day) be dispensed with today to enable the First and Second Readings of the Elections Bill to be taken and on Monday 9th April to enable the remaining stages of the Bill to be taken; the motion was agreed to.
7. Select Committees—It was moved by the Chairman of Committees that the Lord Brabazon of Tara, Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, be appointed Chairman of the European Union Committee in the place of the Lord Tordoff and a member of the House of Lords’ Offices Committee and the Procedure of the House Committee; the motion was agreed to.
8. Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [HL]—It was moved by the Lord Chancellor that the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order:
Clauses 1 and 2
Schedule 1
Clauses 3 and 4
Schedule 2
Clauses 5 to 33
Schedule 3
Clauses 34 to 56
Schedule 4
Clauses 57 to 65
Schedule 5
Clauses 66 to 69
Schedule 6
Clauses 70 to 99
Schedule 7 |
Clauses 100 to 120
Schedule 8
Clauses 121 to 138
Schedule 9
Clauses 139 to 141
Schedule 10
Clauses 142 to 148
Schedule 11
Clauses 149 and 150
Schedule 12
Clauses 151 to 154
Schedule 13
Clauses 155 to 157; |
the motion was agreed to.
9. Elections Bill—A bill to postpone local elections in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, to require polls for different elections in Northern Ireland to be taken together if they are to be taken on the same day, and to make consequential provision, having been brought from the Commons on 4th April and printed pursuant to Standing Order 50 (HL Bill 44), was read a first time; then, Standing Order 46 having been dispensed with, it was moved by the Lord Bassam of Brighton that the bill be now read a second time; after debate, the motion was agreed to and the bill was committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
10. Elections Bill—It was ordered that the Explanatory Notes relating to the bill be printed. (HL Bill 44-EN)
11. Election Publications Bill [HL]—The bill was returned from the Commons agreed to.
12. Railtrack—The Lord Beaumont of Whitley asked Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have, in the light of recent events and of public opinion, to nationalise Railtrack; after debate, the question was answered by the Lord Macdonald of Tradeston.
The House was adjourned at twenty-six minutes before eight o’clock
to Monday next, half-past two o’clock.
MICHAEL DAVIES
Cler: Parliamentor: | 
