Example sentences of "private member ['s] bill " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 2 | ( ii ) The ‘ 10 minute ’ rule This is a development of the method of introducing a Bill by motion now rarely used in the case of Government Bills and it is extremely rare for legislation to result from its use for Private Members ' Bill purposes . |
| 3 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 4 | More Tory ( 54 ) than Labour ( 28 ) MPs supported a 1926 Private Members ' bill to enable local authority welfare centres to give family-planning advice to married women . |
| 5 | this time in promoting a Private Members ' Bill , which came to the statute book as the Civic Amenities Act , 1967 . |
| 6 | Then a Private Members ' Bill established a trust to protect it , consisting of representatives from five local councils . |
| 7 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 8 | But secularizing moves by the English liberals — over the Education Bills of 1902 , 1906 , and a private member 's Bill of 1911 — led the Irish hierarchy to question some of the political intentions of the Irish politicians , who it was feared might sell out the church 's interest in schools . |
| 9 | That means it will be the first time abortion has been debated as part of government legislation , rather than on the basis of a private member 's Bill . |
| 10 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 11 | Sir Richard Body , a farmer who has kept pigs himself for many years , explained that he intends to press on with his Private Member 's Bill since it would phase out the sow stalls within five years instead of the Minister 's eight years . |
| 12 | In the summer , an anti-hacking private member 's bill was withdrawn by Ms Emma Nicholson , Tory MP for Devon West and Torridge , in the belief that government action would follow . |
| 13 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |
| 14 | The result gives us a breathing space , but there is still the risk of a private member 's Bill . ’ |
| 15 | The Labour MP John Stonehouse had a private member 's bill on the subject about to begin its passage through the Commons . |
| 16 | So Lord Campbell of Alloway is trying to go it alone with a private member 's bill in the House of Lords . |
| 17 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 18 | Last year , Sir Richard Body brought in a private member 's bill to introduce within five years a ban on the use of sow stalls and tethers — devices that make it easier and cheaper to manage the animals during their four months of pregnancy . |
| 19 | A proposal for a Private Member 's Bill may emanate from the Member himself , or may have been urged upon him by another Member or Members , or by an outside pressure or interest group . |
| 20 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 21 | In 1989 a Private Member 's Bill attempted to bring television under the Obscene Publications Act , while widening the legal definition of obscenity . |
| 22 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 23 | An awful lot of wind has been generated by Mr Kevin NcNamara 's Private Member 's Bill to ban fox-hunting . |
| 24 | Baroness Lockwood has introduced a Private Member 's Bill , The Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill 1992 , to the House of Lords . |
| 25 | A recent Private Member 's Bill in the UK seeks to introduce sanctions against persons or organisations who engage in financial dealings with tax havens . |
| 26 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 27 | A private member 's Bill which would reform the law on Sunday trading is currently being promoted in the Commons by Labour back-bencher Ray Powell . |
| 28 | He got his chance when Manchester MP Alf Morris won the ballot to introduce a private member 's Bill in Parliament . |
| 29 | For example , in early 1983 MP Jack Ashley was attempting to secure the passage of a Private Member 's Bill through parliament which would require pharmaceutical companies to establish a ‘ no blame compensation fund ’ . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the 1986 Disabled Persons Act , arising from a private member 's Bill and now on the statute book , seeks to carry forward for adults some of the more positive features of the 1981 Education Act — for example , it provides for the rights of all people with disabilities to take part or be represented in discussion and decision-making concerning services provided for them . |