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Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

– in the House of Lords at 3:20 pm on 28 June 2005.

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Photo of Baroness Amos Baroness Amos President of the Council, Privy Council Office, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords (Privy Council Office) 3:20, 28 June 2005

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

Moved, That the draft order be referred to a Grand Committee.—(Baroness Amos.)

Photo of Lord Tordoff Lord Tordoff Liberal Democrat

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene, but I see that the order is to be referred to a Grand Committee. In that case, it will presumably be possible to table amendments, but it is not possible to table amendments to orders. There is confusion and we ought to sort it out. The Procedure Committee should have yet another look at the matter, because the order is not being referred to a Grand Committee, but to the House sitting in the Moses Room or some other place off the Floor of the House.

Photo of Baroness Amos Baroness Amos President of the Council, Privy Council Office, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords (Privy Council Office)

My Lords, we have discussed the issue before. It is a shorthand way of identifying the location.

Photo of Lord Tordoff Lord Tordoff Liberal Democrat

My Lords, it may be a shorthand way, but it is wrong.

Photo of Baroness Amos Baroness Amos President of the Council, Privy Council Office, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords (Privy Council Office)

My Lords, I am happy for a committee to take the matter away and look at it again, but it is what has been agreed by the usual channels.

On Question, Motion agreed to.

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