Chapter or such clause "stand part of the bill." A motion to post

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pone a clause will not be permitted on report. After, the
clauses of the bill have been disposed of, new schedules
may be proposed in the same manner as new clauses,
after which amendments may be made to the schedules of
the bill as reported by the committee.1

No amendments will be allowed which are inconsistent with the provisions of the bill which have been considered For inad by the house, and clauses have been introduced, not relevant to the subject-matter of the bill, the bill has been ments, see recommitted in respect of those clauses. 6

missible

amend

p. 485.

Procedure upon charges, see pp. 559,

598.

When the amendments proposed to the bill have been Amenddisposed of, the title of the bill has been amended."

ment of title on

Charges

people.

On consideration of a bill on report, no clause or amend-report. ment may be proposed which creates a charge upon the upon the public revenue, or upon rates or local burthens upon the people, but the bill may be recommitted in respect of any such proposed clause or amendment.

In respect of a charge upon rates or local burthens, a bill may be recommitted and considered in committee forthwith but in the case of a clause or amendment which creates a charge upon the public revenue, it is necessary that such charge shall have been recommended by the Crown, and sanctioned by a resolution of a committee of the whole house, which has been agreed to by the house upon report.

It may be necessary to recommit a bill to a committee Bills reof the whole house, and occasionally to a select committee,

under consideration would be a
violation of standing order No. 40,
which directs that when a bill is
brought up on report, the house do
proceed at once to consider the
clauses of the bill, without general
discussion of the bill as a whole.
The preamble should, therefore, be
considered as a clause, and the dis-
cussion thereon should be as much
confined to it, as if a clause was
under discussion, 16 Parl. Deb. 4 s.
298.

1 113 C. J. 285. 339.

* 26th July, 1905, 150 Parl. Deb. 4 s. 375.

122 C. J. 365; 127 ib. 339; 130 ib. 204; 150 ib. 297.

4 122 ib. 365, &c.

5 258 H. D. 3 s. 1597. 1628; 338
ib. 1155; 282 ib. 1198; 354 ib. 184–
189.

119 C. J. 172. Notice taken on
report that a clause has been in-
serted in committee by mistake:
clause struck out, 109 ib. 403.
' 155 ib. 253.

committed

Again re

committed.

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before it is read a third time; and debate on this motion Chapter
must be restricted to the purpose and extent of the pro-
posed recommitment of the bill.1

A bill may be recommitted: 1. Without limitation, in
which case the entire bill is again considered in committee,
and reported with "other" or "further" amendments.
2. The bill may be recommitted with respect to particular
clauses or amendments only, or to the clauses in which
amendments are proposed to be made, and the preamble.3
3. On clauses or schedules being offered, or intended to be
proposed, the bill may be recommitted with respect to these
clauses or schedules. In these two latter cases no other
parts of the bill are open to consideration. A bill, however,
has been recommitted in respect of certain clauses, and
of any new clauses relating to the subject-matter of those
clauses. 4. The bill may be recommitted, and an instruc-
tion given to the committee, that they have power to make
some particular or additional provision. If the member
who has charge of the bill, and other members also, desire
the recommitment of the bill, the former has priority in
making the motion for that purpose.8

A bill may be recommitted as often as the house thinks fit. Bills have been recommitted once or twice,9 and even six, and seven times. 10 The proceedings on the report of a recommitted bill are similar to those already explained: and on report the bill, as amended, is taken into consideration forthwith, and is read the third time (see p. 501), or further proceedings thereon are appointed for a future day. Sometimes, after the house has ordered a bill to be read a third time on a future day, this order is discharged, and the bill recommitted; 11 or amendments have been moved to the

1 212 H. D. 3 s. 1277; 72 Parl. Deb. 4 s. 1079.

283 C. J. 533; 94 ib. 510; 143 ib. 213. 407. 437. 528.

3 Bank Notes Issue Bill, 1865,
&c.; 120 ib. 304; 125 ib. 208. 346.

• 108 ib. 570; 116 ib. 121; 126
ib. 289; 127 ib. 427; 132 ib. 411.
5 179 H. D. 3 s. 826.

128 C. J. 360.

789 ib. 127; 93 ib. 605; 94 ib. 318; 107 ib. 311.

8 179 H. D. 3 s. 800.

83 C. J. 354; 89 ib. 286; 93 ib. 605; 94 ib. 318.

10 65 ib. 384. 396. 420; 69 ib. 420. 444. 460.

11 110 ib. 117; 111 ib. 208; 113 ib. 318. 339. 384, &c.

Chapter question for reading a bill a third time, in order to obtain the recommittal of the bill.1

ΧΙΧ.

Standing committees,

to select

mittees.

Notwithstanding the facilities for discussion afforded by Committed see p. 393. a committee of the whole house, the details of a bill may com often be considered more conveniently by a standing or by a select committee. Indeed, according to the ancient practice, all ordinary bills were committed to such committees, and none but the most important were reserved for the consideration of a committee of the whole house: but now, even though a bill has been considered by a select committee, it is recommitted to a committee of the whole house. Sometimes a bill is committed to a select committee to which other bills have been committed; 2 or to committees. appointed to inquire into or consider other matters (see p. 400); or two or more bills are committed to the same committee. When after the committal of a bill to a committee of the whole house, a member desires to commit the bill to a select or standing committee, the order of the day for the committee of the whole house, is read and discharged, notice not being required, and the bill is comPriority to mitted to a select or standing committee; a motion which charge of can be made, although the bill is under consideration by a the bill, see committee of the whole house.5 Debate on the reference of pp. 478, a bill to a select or standing committee follows the rule stated on p. 395. In the Lords, a bill may be committed to "a private committee of the lords present this day."6 When it is deemed advisable to take evidence, the necessary powers are given to the committee for that purpose.7

member in

498.

4

The irregularity of the conversion, by amendments, of a Power of a

1 112 C. J. 391; 118 ib. 167. 275. 2 84 L. J. 172; 92 ib. 70; 106 C. J. 243; 116 ib. 146; 120 ib. 65; 129 ib. 151; 133 ib. 61. 222, &c.

3 119 ib. 165; 120 ib. 65.

472 L. J. 355; 110 C. J. 143; 111 ib. 207; 112 ib. 337; 119 ib. 256; 148 ib. 116. 417; 150 ib. 86; 152 ib. 222; 153 ib. 247; 156 ib. 266; 159 ib. 222. Similarly the order for committee of the whole house on a bill has been read and discharged with

out notice, and the house has
resolved that it is expedient to
commit the bill to a joint com-
mittee, 149 ib. 66.

5 10 ib. 399. 400; 136 ib. 154. 236;
261 H. D. 3 s. 502; Evidence in
Criminal Cases Bill, 147 C. J. 154.
225; Superannuation Acts, &c., Bill,
147 ib. 221. 264.

666 L. J. 150. 583.

104 C. J. 253; 106 ib. 164.

select com

mittee over a bill.

bill into a new bill, by the committee to whom the bill was
referred, has been considered (p. 491); though a select com-
mittee, after consultation with the Speaker, have negatived
all the clauses, and the preamble of a bill; and made
thereon a special report to the house.1 If the select com-
mittee should fail to report the bill, the committee may be
revived, and the bill recommitted to it.2

Title
Though the power of the house of making relevant
amended
amendments in a bill, under standing order No. 34 (see p.
by select
committee. 479), is, in terms, confined to committees of the whole house,
it is acted upon by select committees, as the rules of select
committees follow, as far as possible, those of the house, and
of committees of the whole house. A select committee has,
consequently, the power of considering a money clause, if
duly sanctioned by a resolution (see p. 560).*

commit

tees.

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Bills reWhen the bill is reported from a select committee, it is ported from select recommitted to a committee of the whole house," unless it be first recommitted to the same select committee. If, in addition to reporting the bill, with or without amendments, the committee desire to inform the house of any Special matters relating to the bill, they make a special report."

Provisional

The appointment, by the committee of selection, of comorder and mittees to consider public bills for confirming provisional hytrid bills. orders or certificates of boards or commissions, and also the class of bills termed "hybrid bills," is mentioned on p. 469, and in Chapter XXX.

Discon

tinuance of ingrossment.

In 1849, the ancient system of ingrossing bills upon parchment, after the report, was discontinued, and both

reports, see p. 418.

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Chapter houses agreed to substitute bills, printed on vellum by the Queen's printer, for the parchment rolls.1 By the adoption of this system, the old form of question, "That this bill be ingrossed," upon the report stage, was dispensed with.

with unusual expedition, see p. 516.

a third

On the third reading of a bill, such amendments as have Third reading. been already described in reference to a second reading (see p. 471) may be proposed to the question for now reading the bill a third time. According to present usage Bills read in the House of Commons, it is not unusual to take the time forththird reading of a bill immediately after the consideration with. Bills passed thereof in the house upon report,2 or upon the report of the bill from a committee of the whole house, if the bill is reported without amendment.3 Bills also have been committed to a committee of the whole house immediately after the second reading, and on the report, without amendment, the bills were read the third time. Nor to the prosee p. 280. posal from the chair of the questions consequent upon such procedure, the general concurrence of the house being accorded, is it necessary to obtain, as a preliminary, the Procedure leave of the house thereto. These facilities are, however, on charges, see p. 560. never accorded in the case of a bill founded on a committee resolution based on the recommendation of the Crown.

Leave of the house,

ments on

The question for the third reading may be negatived: Amendbut, as previously stated (see p. 471), such a vote is not third readfatal to the bill.5 In the Lords, new clauses may be added, ing. and amendments made to the bill, at this stage; and the same practice formerly prevailed in the Commons: but, by standing order No. 42, verbal amendments only can be s. 0. 42, made to a bill on the third reading. When material Appendix I. amendments are desirable, the order for the third reading of the bill may be discharged, and the bill recommitted to introduce the amendments in committee. In such cases it

181 L. J. 16. 25; 104 C. J. 51. 578.620.

2 135 ib. 360; 147 ib. 83. 98. 294. 369, &c.

3 97 ib. 480. 482; 107 ib. 335; 113 ib. 352; 133 ib. 435; 147 ib. 103. 106.

125. 148, &c.

274 H. D. 3 s. 1360; 348 ib. 1112. 1148; 48 Parl. Deb. 4 s. 1079.

5 Combination of Workmen Bill, 18th April, 1853, 108 C. J. 410.