HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

who reads out the numbers of those voting in the normal way and
announces the result as follows:
(a) on a motion to advance a bill by a stage, or on an amendment to
such a motion:
“There being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing
Order No. 56, which provides that no proposal to reject a bill
shall be agreed to unless there is a majority in favour of such
rejection, I declare the motion agreed to [the amendment
disagreed to].”
(b) on an amendment to a bill:
“There being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing
Order No. 56, which provides that no proposal to amend a bill
in the form in which it is before the House shall be agreed to
unless there is a majority in favour of such an amendment, I
declare the amendment disagreed to.”
(c) on an amendment to an amendment:
“There being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing
Order No. 56, which provides that the Question before the
House shall be resolved in the negative unless there is a majority
in its favour, I declare the amendment to the amendment
disagreed to.”
(d) on the Question in Committee of the whole House that “a clause
stand part” of a bill or that “this be a Schedule” to a bill, since the
effect of resolving this Question in the negative would be to
amend the bill:
“There being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing
Order No. 56, which provides that no proposal to amend a bill
in the form in which it is before the House shall be agreed to
unless there is a majority in favour of such amendment, I declare
the Question resolved in the affirmative.”
(e) on consideration of a Commons amendment, since the form of
the bill before the House is taken to be the bill as amended by the
Commons:
“There being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing
Order No. 56, which provides that no proposal to amend a bill
in the form in which it is before the House shall be agreed to
unless there is a majority in favour of such amendment, I declare
the Commons amendment agreed to.”
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