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the Lords the committee stage of a tax law rewrite bill, being a money
bill, is normally negatived.
Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills
8.212 The chairman of the joint committee is a member of the House of
Commons. Given the subject matter of tax law rewrite bills, procedure in
the joint committee follows the procedure of select committees in the
Commons, where such procedure differs from that of select committees
in the Lords. The chairman has power to select amendments to the bill.
The committee is exempt from the rotation rule. 1
Hybrid bills
8.213 Hybrid bills are public bills which are considered to affect specific
private or local interests, in a manner different from the private or local
interests of other persons or bodies of the same class, thus attracting the
provisions of the Standing Orders applicable to private business (see
paragraph 9.07).
Reference of bills to Examiners
8.214 Each bill introduced in the Lords is examined by the Public Bill
Office to see whether it may affect any private interests to which
protection is given by the Standing Orders. If, prima facie, this is found to
be so, an order is made referring the bill to the Examiners, and the
second reading of the bill cannot be moved until the report of the
Examiners has been received, although notice of second reading of the
bill may be entered in the order paper. In the case of a Commons bill, an
order is made for it to be referred to the Examiners if it was so referred
by that House.
8.215 It is open to any member who considers that a public bill may be
hybrid, or has become hybrid as a result of any amendment made to it
(see below), to move that the bill be referred to the Examiners. Such a
motion is usually moved immediately before second reading, but may be
moved with notice between stages at any time before third reading.
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