HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

ill without Question put either in an emergency (such as a member
being taken ill) or for a lunch or dinner break). If consideration of the bill
is not completed, the House is resumed on motion and can again go into
committee on a future day.
Procedure in Committee of the whole House
8.81 SO 30, which forbids a member to speak more than once to any
motion, does not apply when the House is in committee. 1 A next
business motion (see paragraph 4.53) is not permitted.
Clause stand part
8.82 As soon as the amendments to each clause have been disposed
of, the Lord in the Chair puts the Question that the clause (or the clause
as amended) stand part of the bill. On this Question a general debate on
the clause may take place. Any member who wishes to leave out the
clause speaks to this Question. Warning of such opposition will normally
have been given by means of an italic notice on the marshalled list, and if
there is no italic notice any member who wishes to speak on “clause
stand part” should inform the Lord in the Chair. Once a clause has been
disposed of, the committee cannot return to it and consider it further.
8.83 Where there are several consecutive clauses to which no
amendment has been set down, the Question is put on all of them en
bloc. If members wish to speak to one of these clauses or move a
manuscript amendment they may do so when the clauses are called; but
in this case they should warn the Lord in the Chair of their intention, and
that clause or those clauses are then dealt with separately.
Postponement of clauses
8.84 Clauses or Parts may be postponed on a motion made to that
effect of which notice has been given; they may also be postponed as the
result of an instruction. A clause may be postponed without notice after
consideration of it has begun but it may not be postponed if it has
already been amended.
1 See also SO 62.
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