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Thread #57663 Message #917023
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
24-Mar-03 - 10:03 AM
Thread Name: Licensing Bill moves on -OUR FUTURE
Subject: RE: Licensing Bill moves on -OUR FUTURE
Remember, if the House of Commons reject the Lords amendments, and the Lords insist on them, or on any one of them, the Lords can't be overuled. The version the House of Lords insists on has to become law, unless the Government decides instead to ditch the whole bill and start all over again.
That's because the Bill was introduced by the Government in the House of Lords, not in the Commons.
If all this seems frivolous, in the context of the present war, it's as well to remember that the laws restricting pub opening times, and all kind of other stuff, were pushed through while people were looking the other way, during the Great War. And we were stuck with them for the best part of a century.