Rejection of bill by select committee

46.27A select committee rejects a private bill by reporting to the House ‘That it is not expedient to proceed further with the bill’. This report is ordered to lie on the Table, and the bill is removed from the list of bills in progress in House of Lords Business.1

Footnotes

  1. 1. For Commons bills rejected by Lords select committees, see Birmingham Corporation Bill, Walsall Corporation Bill and West Bromwich Corporation Bill, LJ (1955–56) 74, 321; Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill, ibid (1990–91) 198; for Lords bills so rejected, see Darlington Borough Council Bill, ibid (1990–91) 447.