Petitions

30.70If no petitions are deposited against the bill, the bill proceeds as a public bill in the usual way.1 If petitions are deposited, the bill is committed after second reading to a select committee.

Footnotes

  1. 1. Commons Registration Bill, LJ (1964–65) 109, 134; Caldey Island Bill, ibid (1989–90) 688, 701; Oversea Superannuation Bill, ibid (1990–91) 221, 223, 253; Agriculture and Forestry (Financial Provisions) Bill, ibid (1990–91) 374, 383.