Koms Rule.
Tin' exact provisions of the V«l,o I Dili have been yiven before in our i columns (says the 'Tablet') but tiny I iii'o easily forgotten : am! our readers | will probably bo glad, at. (his juncture, '■ to have their memories refreshed. ! The Parliament Act —to givo the i measure its proper name—provides I that if any public Bill other than a | money 13i 11 is passed by the House of I Commons in thiee successive sessions I and, having been sent up to the ! House of Loids is rejected by it in eaeli of these sessions, it may on its third rejection be presented foi the Ltoyal assent and become law without the consent of the Second Chamber, provided that this provision shall not take (fleet unless two years have elapsed between the date of the second reading of the Bill in the J louse of Commons in the first of those sessions and the date on which it passes the House of Commons in the" t!-.ird of those sessions. The Home Ilulo Bill passed its second reading on May 'Jth, 1912; so that it is possible for the Bill to become law, in spite of the Lords, by May, 10U.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 3 February 1913, Page 6
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202Koms Rule. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 3 February 1913, Page 6
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