The two classes into which Table of see Introduction. CONDITIONS ΤΟ BE OBSERVED BY PARTIES BEFORE PRIVATE THE TWO CHAIRMEN (LORDS AND COMMONS). PARLIA MENTARY AGENTS. EXCLUDING the relatively small class of Name, Estate, and other "personal" bills, all private bills to which the private standing orders are applicable are divided-by the standdivided, by ing orders, of both houses, relative to private bills-into S. O. 1 (in both the two following classes according to the subjects to which bills are houses). 1st Class. they relate : 1ST CLASS : Burial Ground, making, maintaining, or altering. Charters and Corporations, enlarging or altering powers of. County or Shire Hall, court-house. Crown, Church, or Corporation Property, or Property held in Trust for Public or Charitable purposes. Electricity Supply. Ferry, where no work is to be executed. Fishery, making, maintaining or improving. Gaol or House of Correction. Gas Work. Improvement Charge, unless proposed in connection with a Second Class Work to be authorized by the Bill. Land inclosing, draining or improving. Letters Patent. Local Court, constituting. Market or Market-place, erecting, improving, repairing, maintain ing or regulating. Pilotage. Police. Poor, maintaining or employing. 1 Cf. infra p. 839 and Chapter XXIX. Chapter Poor Rate. Powers to sue and be sued, conferring. Stipendiary Magistrate, or any Public Officer, payment of. And 2ND CLASS : Making, maintaining, varying, extending, or enlarging any Harbour. 2nd Class. Aqueduct. Archway. Bridge. Canal. Cut. Navigation. Pier. Port. Public Carriage Road. Dock. Drainage,-where it is not Embankment for reclaiming Land from the Sea or any Ferry, where any work is to be executed. Reservoir. Sewer. Street. Subway. Tramway. Tramroad. Tunnel. Waterwork. bills: how For every private bill-to whichever of these two classes Private it belongs and in whichever house it eventually is first intro- solicited duced a petition, signed by the parties (or some of them) and who are suitors for the bill, must be duly deposited in the S. O. 32, 193 (H.C.); Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before s. o. 32 (H. L.). the 17th December, with a printed copy of the bill annexed; and a printed copy of every such bill must also be deposited, on or before the same date, in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords. the case of London In the case of certain bills promoted by the London Deposit in County Council under the conditions described in stand- certain ing order No. 194,1 the deposit of the petition for the bill, and other requisite deposits and notices, are fixed at the later dates mentioned in standing order No. 194B.2 1 Supra p. 675, n. 1. 2 Standing orders Nos. 69 and 69B of the House of Lords, which mutatis mutandis correspond to standing County bills. S. O. 194, 194B orders 194 and 194B (House of Com- (H. C.). Preparing bills. Clauses Compliance required of both XXVI. In preparing their bills for deposit, the promoters must Chapter be careful that no provisions be inserted which are not sufficiently alluded to in the notices, or which otherwise infringe the standing orders; and if the bill be for any of the purposes to which the provisions of any of the Clauses Acts 1 are applicable, these provisions must be incorporated by reference. The bill is otherwise drawn in conformity with what is known as "the Model Bill," by which the best forms are prescribed. This "Model Bill" is annually issued by the office of the Lords' Chairman of Committees, and is a collection of "model clauses" for railway, tramway, and gas and water bills, and of numerous miscellaneous clauses in common use.2 The requirements of the standing orders which are to be with S. O., complied with by the promoters of private bills before Nos. 3-68, application is made to Parliament, were conveniently arranged by the Commons, in 1847, in the following order; introduc- and a similar arrangement has since been adopted by the House of Lords: houses, (a) before tion of Private Bill (S. O. 3-59); "1. Notices by advertisement. 2. Notices and applications to The principal Clauses Acts are Acts will be incorporated "except The "Model Bill"-drawn up Chapter ments required to be deposited, and the times and places of The requirements of the two houses, under each of these after intro 68). In addition to the standing orders above alluded to, there and (b) are others (Nos. 60-68), the compliance with which is duction proved after the introduction of the bills into Parliament; (S. 0.60of these, No. 60 relates only to the deposit of certain bills with government departments, and No. 61,6 and Nos. 62-68,7 will in due course be further mentioned. 5 Compliance, proved. Compliance with the standing orders was formerly re- As to the custody, and as to facilities for the inspection of, documents directed to be locally deposited under the standing orders, cf. the Parliamentary Documents Deposits Act, 1837, and standing order (Lords) No. 146. 2 As to the custody of money deposits required under the standing orders, cf. the Parliamentary Deposits Act, 1846. The standing orders of both houses are numbered alike, from No. 1 to No. 68; but there are two (numbered 25C and 36A) which are in the Lords' standing orders only, and one (numbered 35A) which is only in the Commons' standing orders. The material differences between the Lords' and the Com mons' standing orders No. 22 (Con- The standing orders, of both See infra, p. 755. • See p. 724. See pp. 723 and 842-5. 8 Standing order 2; and cf. report of select committee for revision of the standing orders, 1847, 102 C. J. 825. 880-896. Examiners. Their duties. General XXVI. appointed. A few years later, in 1854, the Lords resolved, chapter When all the petitions for private bills, with printed List of for Bills. S. O. 229 (H. C.). ' Cf. infra, pp. 716 (standing orders committee, House of Commons) and 841 (standing orders committee, House of Lords). When the Examiner has found that the standing orders have not been complied with in the case of a petition for a bill, and the standing orders committee of the house in which the bill originates have reported that they should be dispensed with, the standing orders committee of the second house do not defer their decision until the bill reaches their house, but at once consider and |