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  Orders of the Day - Clause 8 - Commencement
  
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  This amendment, which was defeated, would have amended the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmbills/048/2008048.pdf">Bill</a> to ratify the <a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/TREATY%20FINAL%20TEXT.pdf">Lisbon treaty</a> by leaving out page 4 line 8 ("The other provisions of this Act come into force on Royal Assent.") and substituting:
  
  <p pid="a.1866.1/4">'(2A) Section [Referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2)] and Schedule [Conduct of the Referendum (No. 2)] come into force on Royal Assent.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1866.1/5">(2B) The other provisions of this Act come into force if an affirmative answer has been given to the question specified in section [Referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2)] in a referendum held in accordance with that section and Schedule [Conduct of the Referendum (No. 2)] and any legal challenge made under that Schedule has been disposed of by the court or courts in question.'.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1866.1/7"><i> The Committee divided:</i> Ayes 247, Noes 311.</p>
  
  <p>The texts of the proposed section and schedule are given near the beginning of <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-03-05a.1751.4">the debate</a>.</p>
  
  <p>The Liberal Democrats imposed a three line Whip requiring abstention, which led to the resignation of three members of their Front Bench.</p>
  
  
  
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