Ordered,

That—

(1) the Promoters of every Private Bill which has originated in this House, and the title of which is included in the Schedule to this Order, shall have leave to suspend any further proceeding thereon in order to proceed with that Bill, if they think fit. in the next Session;

(2) the Agent for the Promoters of any such Bill intending to suspend any further proceeding thereon shall give notice to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office not later than Five o'clock this day of their intention to suspend further proceeding thereon or, if the Bill having passed this House is then pending in the House of Lords, of their intention to proceed with the same Bill in this House in the next Session; provided that all fees due upon any such Bill up to that date be paid;

(3) an alphabetical list of all such Bills, with a statement of the stage at which they have been suspended, shall be prepared by the Clerks in the Private Bill Office and printed;

(4) every such Bill shall be presented to the House not later than the third day on which the House sits after the next meeting of Parliament;

(5) there shall be deposited with every Bill so presented a declaration signed by the Agent for the Bill, stating that the Bill is the same, in every respect, as the Bill with respect to which proceedings have been suspended at the last stage of its proceeding in this House in the present Session;

(6) every Bill so presented shall be laid by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the Table of the House on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the causes of Her Majesty's calling the Parliament have been declared thereunto;

(7) every Bill so laid on the Table shall be deemed to have been read the first and second time (if the Bill has been read a second time before its suspension); and if such Bill has been reported by the Chairman of Ways and Means in the present Session, it shall be ordered to be read the third time;

(8) all Petitions against any Bill presented in the present Session which stood referred to the Committee on the Bill shall stand referred to the Committee on the same Bill in the next Session;

(9) any Standing Orders complied with in respect of any Bill originating in the House of Lords, upon which the proceedings have been suspended in that House, shall be deemed to have been complied with in respect of such Bill if the same is brought from the House of Lords in the next Session, and any notices published or given and any deposits made in respect of such Bill for the present Session shall be held to have been published, given and made, respectively for the Bill so brought from the House of Lords in the next Session;

(10) no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on a Bill in respect of which fees have already been incurred during the present Session;

That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.

Ashdown Forest Bill.

British Railways Bill.

British Transport Docks Bill.

British Waterways Bill.

Burmah-Total Refineries Trust Bill.

Clifton Suspension Bridge Bill.

Greater London Council (General Powers) Bill.

London Transport Bill.

Merseyside Metropolitan Railway Bill.

Morpeth Common Bill.

Old London Road, Hythe, Burial Ground Bill.

Orkney County Council Bill.

Spanish and Portuguese Jews' (Golders Green) Burial Ground Bill.

Thurrock District Council Bill.

University of Bristol Bill.

Workington Harbour Bill.

Zetland County Council Bill.—[ The Chairman of Ways and Means.]

Ordered,

That—

(1) all Standing Orders complied with in respect of any Public Bill presented during the present Session shall be held to have been complied with in respect of any Bill presented in the next Session which is the same in every respect as the Bill which was presented in the present Session; and where the Examiner has reported that the Standing Orders have been complied with in respect of any such Bill, he shall report only whether any further Standing Orders are applicable;

(2) any Petitions against the Bill presented in pursuance of any Order of the House of the present Session and not withdrawn shall stand referred to any Select Committee to whom the Bill may be Committed in the next Session;

That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.—[Mr. Peyton.]