STANDING ORDERS, COMPLIANCE WITH WHICH IS TO BE PROVED BEFORE THE EXAMINERS OF PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS. Definitions 55 1. Notices by Advertisement. Particulars specified in notice 55 4. Further particulars in case of second class bills and certain first class bills 55 5. Particulars in notices for burial ground, gas works, &c., bills 6. Notices in case of tramway bills 10. Posting of notices in case of tramway or underground railway bill - 57 2. Notices and Applications to Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers of Lands and Houses. 11. Application to owners, &c., on or before 15th December 12. Lists of owners, &c., assenting, dissenting, and neuter 13. Notice to frontagers in case of tramways 58 58 13a. Notice to owners and lessees of railways, tramways, or canals crossed, affected, or interfered with by proposed tramway 58 14. Notices when it is proposed to abstract water from any stream - 58 15. Notice to owners and occupiers of houses in case of burial grounds, gas works, &c., bills 58 16. Notice to owners, &c., in case of relinquishment of works provisions 17a. Notice to owners, &c., in cases of alteration or repeal of provisions relating to nuisance 18. Notice in case of application for compulsory running powers 19. Mode of making application and serving notice 20. Evidence of application and notice 21. Notices not to be given on Sunday, &c. 22. Consents in case of tramways bill PAGE 59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59 3. Documents Required to be Deposited, and the Times and Places of Deposit. 23. Deposit not to be made on Sunday, &c. 24. Deposit of plans, books of reference, and sections with Clerk of the Peace, &c. 25. Deposit of plans, &c., in Private Bill Office 26a. Deposit in case of bill affecting banks, &c., of river 27. Deposit of plans, &c., with Board of Trade 28. Deposit of plans and sections with London County Council 29. Deposit in certain cases with certain local authorities 256. Deposit of map in case of bills for supply of electrical energy 26. Deposit in case of bill affecting tidal lands 34a. Deposit of bills with road authorities. 64 64 30. Deposit of plans, in certain cases, with Home Office and Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 31. Gazette notice to be deposited with plans, &c. 32. Petition for bill, &c., to be deposited in Private Bill Office ments 34. Deposit of hills with the London County Council 35. Deposit of estimates, &c., in Private Bill Office joint stock companies bills 36. Copies of estimates and declaration to be printed, and delivered at Private Bill Office 37. Form of estimate 38. Deposit of statement relating to working class houses 39. Deposit of plans, &c., in case of provisional orders in Private Bill Office 4. Plans, Books of Reference, Sections and Cross Sections. 40. Description of plans 41. Description required in case of canals, &c. 42. Particulars in case of railways 43. Diversion of roads, &c., to be shown 44. In case of junctions, course of existing line to be shown 45. Plans in the case of street tramway bills. 45a. Definition of improvement and improvement area 6969 46. Contents of book of reference 47. Sections 48. Improvement, &c., of navigations 50. Distances and vertical measures 53. Embankments and cuttings 54. Tunnelling and viaducts 55. Gradient in case of junctions 5. Estimates and Deposit of Money, and Declarations: 56. Estimate in bills of the second class 57. Percentage to be deposited 59 58. Cases in which declarations may be deposited in lieu of money Cases in which declaration and estimate of amount of rates may be deposited 60 6. Bills brought from the House of Lords. Deposit of bills brought from the House of Lords 61. Notices and deposits where work altered while bill is in Parliament 7. Consents of Proprietors, Members of Companies, and Persons Meeting of proprietors in case of certain bills originating in 70 - 70 70 62 70 63. Meeting of members of companies, &c., in case of certain bills originating in this house - 71 64. Meeting of proprietors in case of certain bills originating in House of Lords = 72 65. Meeting of members of companies, &c., in case of certain bills originating in House of Lords 66. Consent of proprietors of any company to sum authorised to be raised in aid of undertaking of another company 67. Provision as to railway bills charging payments on local rate in Ireland 68 Proof of consent of directors, &c., who are named in the bill PROCEEDINGS OF EXAMINERS, OF CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS, AND OF COMMITTEES. Reference of Bills, &c., to, and Duties of, and Practice before Examiners. 69. When examination of petitions to commence 72. Reference to examiner of petitions for additional provision and estate bills from Lords, &c. 73. Notice in cases of petitions for additional provision in private bills, &c. 74. Memorial complaining of non-compliance 75. Locus standi of proprietors dissenting at meeting under Orders 62 to 66 76. Proof by affidavit 77. Report in cases of bills originating in the Lords 78. Special report in certain cases 79. PAGE 79 79 Chairman of ways and means to seek a conference with chairman of committees of House of Lords Chairman of ways and means to examine all private bills, &c. - 80 81. Chairman of ways and means to report on bills relating to Government contracts 80. 82. Copies of bill, as proposed to be submitted to Committee, to be laid before chairman of ways and means, &c. 83. Power to chairman to report special circumstances, &c., to the house 84. Copy of bill as amended in committee to be laid before chairman of ways and means, &c. 85. Clause or amendment on consideration of bill, or on third reading, to be submitted to chairman of ways and means, &c. 81 86. Copy of amendments by House of Lords, and of proposed amendments thereto, to be laid before chairman of ways and means, &c. Proceedings of, and in relation to, the Referees on Private Bills. 87. Referees on private bills to be constituted 88. Rules of practice and procedure to be made by chairman of ways and means 89. Referees on private bills to decide as to locus standi of Proceedings of, and in relation to, the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 91. Committee on standing orders 92. Report as to dispensing with standing orders in cases of noncompliance 93. Report in cases of bills originating in Lords 95. Report as to dispensing with sessional or standing orders 96. Report as to re-insertion of petitions 94. Proceeding in case of special report 97. Report in cases of amendments proposed on consideration 98. Proceedings of, and in relation to, the Committee of Selection, and of the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills. Committee of selection S3 99. General committee on railway and canal bills 83 100. Committee of selection may discharge members and add others 103, Committee of selection and general committee to group private bills 104. Railway and canal unopposed bills 105. Committee of selection and general committee on railway, &c. bills, to appoint first sitting of committee 106. Committee of selection and general committee to name bill or bills to be considered on the first day 107. Bills not to be considered opposed 108. Committees on opposed private bills 109. Committees on unopposed private bills 113. Committee of selection may substitute members for others Proceedings of Committees on Opposed Bills. PAGE 83 83 83 83 83 84 84 84 84 121. Proceedings to be suspended if quorum not present 122. Members absent to be reported to the house 123. Absence of members by death or otherwise to be reported 124. Method of deciding questions 125. Order in which Bills are to be considered 126. Causes of adjournment to be specially reported. 127. Petition against bill must distinctly specify grounds of · 84 85 85 85 134. Locus standi of municipal authorities and inhabitants of towns, &c. 87 134a. Local authorities to have a locus standi against lighting and water bills 134c. County councils to have a locus standi against a water bill or a tramway bill 134d. Locus standi of owners of rivers or river conservancies, &c. |