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Commons amendments) in Committee of the whole House without
formally recommitting the bill. 1 The effect, in accordance with SO 62, is to
give greater “freedom of debate” with regard to those amendments. When
consideration of the specific amendments is concluded the House is
resumed, and proceedings continue without further interruption; the bill is
not formally reported to the House, and no report or third reading stage
follows. The decisions of the Committee in respect of the amendments have
the same effect as decisions taken by the House itself.
REPORT STAGE
8.130 If a bill has been amended in Committee of the whole House, the
report stage cannot be taken until a later day, unless SO 46 has been
suspended or dispensed with.
8.131 The motion “That this report be now received” may be objected
to and debated and voted on; an amendment may be moved to
postpone the report until a specified time; or a reasoned amendment 2
may be moved in opposition to the motion or to record a particular
point of view in assenting to the motion.
Amendments on report
8.132 When the Question that the report be now received has been
agreed to, any amendments are called in the usual way. Notice of these is
given in the same way as for committee, and the same practices apply for
marshalling and grouping. The proceedings are confined to dealing with
amendments, either in the order in which they relate to the bill or in a
particular sequence agreed to in advance by order of the House.
Repeat amendments 3
8.133 Amendments identical (or of identical effect) to amendments pressed
to a vote by the mover and defeated in committee may not be retabled on
report. However, an issue which has been debated and voted on in
committee can be reopened, provided that the relevant amendment is more
than cosmetically different from that moved in committee.
1 See Minutes of Proceedings, 9 November 2009.
2 See paragraphs 8.38–8.41.
3 Procedure 1st Rpt 1998–99.
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