HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

Report from Examiners
8.216 If the Examiners report that no standing orders are applicable, the
bill may proceed on its ordinary course.
8.217 However, if the Examiners find that the standing orders relating to
private business are applicable, the bill is a hybrid bill, and (unless the
House orders otherwise) an order of the House is made providing for
petitions against the bill to be deposited by a given date.
Petitions
8.218 If no petitions are deposited against the bill, the bill proceeds as a
public bill in the usual way. If petitions are deposited, the bill is committed
after second reading to a select committee.
Commitment
8.219 Since the bill is a public bill, and has been affirmed in principle on
second reading, the preamble does not have to be proved before the
select committee; but in other respects the committee broadly follows
the procedure of a select committee on an opposed private bill (see
paragraph 9.38). When the bill is reported from the select committee it is
recommitted to a Committee of the whole House and thereafter follows
the usual course of a public bill. The bill is reprinted as amended by the
select committee and the amendments are also printed separately.
Hybridising amendments
8.220 A bill may become prima facie hybrid as a result of an amendment
made to it (and a hybrid bill may be amended in such a way as to affect
private or local interests not previously affected). If an amendment is
agreed to which, in the opinion of the Public Bill Office, has such an
effect, the bill may be referred to the Examiners before its next stage, on
a motion moved by the Chairman of Committees.
MEASURES
8.221 A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England
is, under the provisions of the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act
1919, as amended by the Synodical Government Measure 1969,
submitted to Parliament for a resolution directing that it be presented to
Her Majesty for Royal Assent.
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