Private Legislation

Abstract

The Member of Parliament who receives every morning his sheaf of papers from the Vote Office, the Order Paper for the day, the minutes (Votes and Proceedings) of the previous day’s Session, and any other documents which he may have ordered, will often find at the top of the Order Paper a section headed ‘Private Business’. It contains mostly notices of the various stages of Private Bills set down for consideration that day and corresponds roughly to an Order Paper for local and private legislation.