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  House of Lords Bill - Decline to give a Second Reading - rejected
  
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  The majority No voters rejected an amendment to the [http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/034/1999034.htm House of Lords Bill] that would have declined to give it a Second Reading. A Second Reading allows a Bill to move onto the Committee Stage.
  
  The main intention of the House of Lords Bill was to abolish the hereditary peers who sit within the Lords. Dr Liam Fox's amendment is as follows:[1]
  
  :'''This House declines to give a Second Reading to the House of Lords Bill'''
  * ''as'' it fails to address the role of the Second Chamber, its relationship to this House and its long term composition,
  * ''hence'', rather than improving the governance of the United Kingdom by establishing a sustainable, balanced and effective constitution, it merely adds to the incoherence of Her Majesty's Government's piecemeal constitutional changes.
  
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  * [1] [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1999/feb/02/house-of-lords-bill#column_741 Dr Liam Fox], 2 February 1999, House of Commons
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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