HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

must submit a notification and explanation to the Lord Speaker. 1 Their
arrival is recorded in the minutes of the next sitting day’s proceedings.
Days when papers may be laid
3.66 Papers may be laid on the days and times set out in the table.
Days when papers
may be laid
House sitting for
public business
Non-sitting day
(Monday to Friday)
Time at which papers may be deposited in
Printed Paper Office
Earliest
9.30 a.m. (or start of
business if earlier)
Latest
11 a.m. 3 p.m. 2
Prorogation 11 a.m. 3 p.m.
Dissolution
5 p.m. (or rising of
the House if later)
Papers may not be laid
3.67 Departments wishing to lay Command papers or statutory
instruments outside these hours must make special arrangements for
their receipt with the Printed Paper Office.
Entitlement
3.68 Members of the House are entitled to obtain free of charge from
the Printed Paper Office such current parliamentary papers and other
publications as they clearly require to discharge their current
parliamentary duties. 3 These include:
Command papers;
Act papers;
statutory instruments;
Acts and Measures;
1 Statutory Instruments Act 1946, s. 4, as amended by Sch. 6 to the Constitutional Reform Act
2005; SO 71.
2 Procedure 2nd Rpt 2006–07.
3 Offices 4th Rpt 1966–67.
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