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Notices of Motions, Amendments and Questions

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 November 1973.

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Ordered,That this Session:

  1. (a) a notice of a question, or of an Amendment to a Motion standing on the Paper for which no day has been fixed or of the addition of a name in support of such a Motion or Amendment, which is given after half-past Ten o'clock in the evening shall be treated for all purposes as if it were a notice handed in after the rising of the House; and
  2. (b) the proviso contained in paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 8 (Questions to Members) shall not apply.—[Mr. John Stradling Thomas.]

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