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10.53 If no resolution for annulment is passed, any certified petition is
referred to a joint committee, except that a petition of general objection
is not referred if either House has resolved within the resolution period
that it should not be. Any special report of the two Chairmen, and any
counter-petitions, are also referred to the committee.
10.54 If no petition is referred to a joint committee at the end of the
resolution period, and no resolution for annulment has been passed, the
order may come into operation.
Joint committee
10.55 Joint committees under the 1945 Act consist of three members of
each House, and private business SO 209 governs their proceedings.
Where a petition is for amendment, 1 the committee may report the
order with or without amendments to give effect to the petition in whole
or in part. Where the petition is of general objection, the committee may
report the order with or without amendments, or report that the order
be not approved. The report of the joint committee is laid before both
Houses. Where the order is reported without amendment, 2 it may come
into operation from the date when the report of the committee is laid
before Parliament.
10.56 Where the order is reported with amendments, 3 the minister may
bring the order as amended into operation on a date of his choice, or
withdraw the order, or bring it to Parliament for further consideration by
means of a bill for its confirmation.
10.57 Where the committee reports that the order be not approved,
the order does not take effect unless confirmed by Act of Parliament.
Confirming bills
10.58 A confirming bill presented in respect of an order reported with
amendments is a public bill and sets out the order as amended. 4 It is
treated as if the amendments had been made in committee in the House
in which it is presented, and in the second House likewise it proceeds
1 s. 5.
2 s. 6.
3 PBSO 214.
4 s. 6(4).
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