1Amendments of Act of 1945.
(1)The [1945 c. 18 (9 & 10 Geo. 6.).] Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945 shall be amended as follows.
(2)The period for presenting petitions under the Act against an order subject to special parliamentary procedure, and the resolution period as defined by section 4(2) of the Act, shall each be twenty-one days, instead of fourteen days, and accordingly for the words " fourteen days " there shall be substituted the words " twenty-one days " in—
section 3(1) and 3(3),
section 4(1) (in both places),
section 9(a), and
in the part of section 10(3) setting out section 4(1) of the Act as it applies in Scotland.
(3)In section 3(3) of the Act (under which the Lord Chairman of Committees and the Chairman of Ways and Means must consider whether a petition discloses a substantial ground of objection to the order) the words " and that the petition discloses a substantial ground of objection to the order " shall cease to have effect.
(4)A petition of general objection shall under section 4(2) of the Act stand referred to a joint committee of both Houses unless either House of Parliament has within the resolution period as defined in that subsection resolved that it be not so referred, and accordingly in the proviso to the said section 4(2) for the words—
“that petition shall not stand so referred unless either House has ordered as aforesaid that the petition be so referred”
there shall be substituted—
“that petition shall not stand so referred if either House has resolved within the resolution period that the petition be not so referred”,
and the proviso to section 4(1) of the Act (under which either House may order that a petition of general objection be referred to a joint committee) shall cease to have effect.