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8.134 An amendment agreed to on a vote in committee may not be
reversed on report except with the unanimous agreement of the House.
Amendments grouped and en bloc
8.135 As in committee, amendments may be grouped, and a member
may ask leave to speak to a number of related amendments. Likewise
consecutive amendments may be moved en bloc but without any need
to confine each bloc within a clause or Schedule.
Opposition to clause or Schedule
8.136 The Question that the clauses and Schedules stand part is not put
on report, so a proposal to leave out a clause or Schedule appears as an
amendment. Such an amendment should not be tabled if the purpose
underlying the amendment is to initiate a general debate, rather than a
genuine desire to leave out the clause or Schedule: it may, however, be
appropriate when, for instance, a member wishes to learn the outcome
of an undertaking given in committee. 1
Manuscript amendments
8.137 Manuscript amendments are not out of order on report, but the
disadvantages and inconvenience attaching to the moving of manuscript
amendments on report are even greater than at committee stage. The
rule requiring the text of such amendments to be read out to the House
applies on report as in committee.
Rules of debate on report
8.138 On report no member may speak more than once to an
amendment, except the mover of the amendment in reply or a member
who has obtained leave of the House, which may only be granted to:
a member to explain himself in some material point of his speech,
no new matter being introduced;
the Lord in charge of the bill; and
a minister of the Crown. 2
1 Procedure 9th Rpt 1970–71.
2 SO 30.
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