Gas. A bill [as amended by Standing Committee D] to provide for the establishment of area gas boards and a gas council and for the exercise and performance by those boards and that council of functions relating to the supply of gas and coke and certain other matters; for the transfer to such boards as aforesaid and to the said council of property, rights, obligations and liabilities of gas undertakers and other persons; for co-ordinating the activities of area gas boards and the National Coal Board relating to carbonization; to amend the law relating to the supply of gas; to make certain consequential provision as to income tax; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid [electronic resource].