HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Wednesday 7th January 2004
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Portsmouth.
Papers
1. Instrument withdrawn—The following instrument, laid before the House on 18th December, was withdrawn:
Draft Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Board) Order 2004.
2. Command Paper—The following paper was presented to the House by command of Her Majesty and ordered to lie on the Table:
Civil Contingencies—Government Response to the Report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Civil Contingencies Bill. (6078)
3. Regulatory Reform—The following order was laid before the House under section 6(1) of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 and referred to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee:
Draft Regulatory Reform (National Health Service Charitable Trust Accounts and Audit) Order 2004, together with a statement by the Department of Health and the National Assembly for Wales.
4. Negative Instrument—The following instrument was laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2003, laid under the Civil Procedure Act 1997. (3361)
5. Paper not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following paper was laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
Report of the making of a Call-Out Order to support operations in Iraq, laid under the Reserve Forces Act 1996.
Select Committee Report
6. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform—The following report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
3rd Report, on the following bills:
Gender Recognition Bill [HL];
Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL];
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [HL];
Health Protection Agency Bill [HL];
Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill [HL];
Fishery Limits (United Kingdom) Bill [HL];
Air Traffic Emissions Reduction Bill [HL]. (HL Paper 17)
Public Business
7. Cancer registration (Balloted debate)—It was moved by the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff that there be laid before the House papers relating to the arrangements for cancer registration in England and their role in support of the National Health Service Cancer Plan; after debate, the motion was (by leave of the House) withdrawn.
8. Electricity supply (Balloted debate)—It was moved by the Lord Tombs that there be laid before the House papers relating to the possibility of power interruptions in the electricity supply industry; after debate, the motion was (by leave of the House) withdrawn.
9. Harbours Bill [HL]—It was moved by the Lord Berkeley that the bill be now read a second time; after debate, the motion was agreed to and the bill was committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
The House was adjourned at twenty-one minutes before eight o’clock
till tomorrow, eleven o’clock.
PAUL HAYTER
Clerk of the Parliaments | 
