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the Committee moves in the House that the Report be agreed to. On consideration of the Report the House may, if it think fit, refer the Bill back to the Committee. 106. All further amendments proposed on the consideration of the Report on a Bill, and all amendments proposed on the third reading of a Bill that has been reported without amendment, shall be referred to the Committee on the Bill; and no further proceedings on the Bill shall be taken by the House until the Report of the Committee has been brought up. In this Order " amendment " means a material or substantive amendment, and does not include an amendment that is formal or verbal merely, or consequential on an amendment already made. An amendment to leave out an amendment made by the Committee shall be deemed to be a " further amendment " within the meaning of this Order. The provisions of Order one hundred and three hereof shall apply to any amendment made by the Committee on a reference to them under this Order. 107. When a Bill is referred back, or any further amendment, or any amendment proposed on the third reading, is referred to the Committee on the Bill, it shall not be necesary to make an order for reviving the Committee, but the Committee shall be deemed to be still in being for the purpose of reconsidering the Bill, or of considering the further amendment, or the amendment, as the case may be. 108. No amendments, save such as are merely verbal, shall be made to any Bill on the third reading thereof. 109. After a Bill has been read the third time and passed, it shall be printed fair at the promoter's expense. 110. The Speaker shall certify on one of such fair prints that the Bill so printed is in accordance with the Bill as passed, and the Bill so certified shall be carried to the other House. 111. In the other House the Bill may be read the first time on motion without notice, as though it were a Public Bill, but shall at all subsequent stages be dealt with in the manner prescribed by these Orders. Procedure in Private Bill Office. 112. The parties promoting a Bill shall from time to time give notice to the Examiner of the days respectively proposed for the first and second reading of the Bill, for taking the Report on the Bill into consideration, where this is necessary, and for the third reading of the Bill. Notice of the day proposed for the first reading may be given on the previous day, but in every other case one clear day's notice at the least must be given. Notice of the second reading shall not be given until after the day whereon the Bill has been read the first time, and notice of the third reading shall not be given until after the day whereon the Bill has been reported, or whereon the Report has been taken into consideration, as the case may be. 113. Printed copies of any further amendment proposed to be offered on the consideration of the \ Report on a Bill, or of any amendment proposed to j be offered on the third reading of a Bill, shall be lodged : with the Examiner one clear day at the least before - the day appointed for consideration of the Report, ' or for the third reading, as the case may be. 114. Notices relating to Private Business must be ] handed in at the Private Bill Office before five o'clock | in the afternoon on a sitting-day, and before one s o'clock in the afternoon on any other day.

Further amendments, how dealt with. 5.0., No. 77.

Order to revive Committee unnecessary.

Amendments on third reading. S.O. of House of Commons, No. 219. Bill to be reprinted after third reading. 5.0., No. 78. Speaker to certify Bill.

How Bill dealt with in other House. Ibid., No. 81.

Notices by Agent. S.O. of House of Commons, Nos. 235, 239, and 243.

Further amendments to be printed and copies lodged with Examiner. Ibid., Nos. 217 and 242.

Notices to be given during office hours. 5.0., No. 5.