HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Thursday 6th July 2006
The House met at eleven o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Chester.
Judicial Business
1. In re B and O (children)—The petition of North Yorkshire County Council praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee (lodged 26th June).
Papers
2. Negative Instrument—The following instrument was laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
Tobacco Products and Excise Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2006, laid under the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979. (1787)
3. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Accounts for 2004-05 of the Public Health Laboratory Service Board, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the National Health Service Act 1977;
2. Accounts for 2005-06 of the Office of Communications Section 400 Licence Fees and Penalties, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the Communications Act 2003;
3. Report and Accounts for 2005-06 of OGC Buying Solutions, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973;
4. Report and Accounts for 2005-06 of the Valuation and Lands Agency, laid under the Northern Ireland Act 2000;
5. Report for 2005-06 of the Central Arbitration Committee, laid under the Employment Relations Act 1999;
6. Report and Accounts for 2005-06 of English Partnerships, laid under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
Public Business
4. Finance (No. 2) Bill—A bill to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 135)
5. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2006—It was moved by the Lord Rooker, on behalf of the Lord President (Baroness Amos), that the Order be referred to a Grand Committee; the motion was agreed to.
6. Police and Justice Bill—The House again resolved itself into a Committee upon the bill; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; the House was resumed.
7. Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006—It was moved by the Lord Warner that the draft Order laid before the House on 19th June be approved; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
The House was adjourned during pleasure.The House was resumed.
8. Police and Justice Bill—The House again resolved itself into a Committee upon the bill; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; amendments were agreed to; the House was resumed after amendment 139A.
The House was adjourned at eight minutes before seven o’clock to Monday next, half-past two o’clock.
PAUL HAYTER
Clerk of the Parliaments | 
