Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)

Mr. Christopher Chope, supported by Mr. Peter Bone, Mr. William Cash, Philip Davies, Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory, Mr. Richard Shepherd, Mr. Andrew Turner, Sir Peter Viggers, Sir Nicholas Winterton and Mr. Roger Gale, presented a Bill to provide that Community treaties, Community instruments and Community obligations shall only be binding in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom insofar as they do not conflict with a subsequent, expressly inconsistent enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 27 February, and to be printed (Bill 45).