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8.123 If a committee is unable to complete its consideration of the bill, it
makes a special report to that effect and reports the bill without
amendment.
Recommitment
8.124 A bill which has been referred to a select or joint committee is,
after being reported by that committee, recommitted to a Committee of
the whole House unless the select or joint committee has reported that
the bill should not proceed. Consolidation bills and hybrid bills are the
most common examples of bills which are recommitted.
8.125 Other bills may, on motion (which is debatable and of which
notice is required) moved at any time between committee and third
reading, be recommitted to a Committee of the whole House or Grand
Committee in their entirety, or in respect of certain clauses or Schedules.
8.126 This course is adopted when it is desirable to give further detailed
consideration to the bill or certain parts of it without the constraints on
speaking which apply on report and third reading; for instance:
when substantial amendments are tabled too late in the
committee stage to enable them to be properly considered;
where there is extensive redrafting; or
where amendments are tabled at a later stage on subjects which
have not been considered in committee.
This procedure reserves to the report stage its proper function as an
opportunity to review and perfect the bill as amended in committee.
8.127 A motion that the House resolve itself into a committee on
recommitment on a bill may be debated and opposed in the same way as
the motion to go into committee. Procedure on recommitment is the
same as in Committee of the whole House. The next stage of any bill or
part of a bill subject to recommitment is report stage. However, the
minimum interval between committee and report does not apply to
recommitment.
8.128 SO 47(2) provides for the order of recommitment to be
discharged on the same conditions as apply to the order of commitment.
Consideration in Committee of the whole House at later stages of bills
8.129 In exceptional circumstances the Lord in charge of the bill may, with
notice, move that the House consider particular amendments (including
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