The Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945 shall, in its application to an order or scheme to which it applies by virtue of section 14, 16 or 18 of this Act (not being an order or scheme relating to a harbour in Scotland) have effect as if, in section 4 of that Act (which relates to the proceedings upon an order or other instrument to which the Act applies after the reports of the Lord Chairman of Committees and the Chairman of Ways and Means relating to the instrument have, in pursuance of section 3 of the Act, been laid before Parliament), the proviso to subsection (1) were omitted and, for the proviso to subsection (2), there were substituted the following proviso:—
“Provided that where any petition so certified has been certified as a petition of general objection, that petition shall not stand so referred, if during the resolution period, either House has resolved that the petition be not so referred”.