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  House of Lords Bill - Decline to give a Second Reading - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected an amendment to the <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/034/1999034.htm">House of Lords Bill</a> that would have declined to give it a Second Reading. A Second Reading allows a Bill to move onto the Committee Stage.</p>
  
  <p>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:</p>
  
  <blockquote><p><i>This House declines to give a Second Reading to the House of Lords Bill</i></p>
  <ul><li><b>as</b> it fails to address the role of the Second Chamber, its relationship to this House and its long term composition,</li> 
  <li><b>hence</b> 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.</li></ul>
  
  
  
  
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