SOUTH AUSTRALIA The Standing Orders OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL RELATING TO PUBLIC BUSINESS TOGETHER WITH THE Joint Standing Orders AGREED TO BY BOTH HOUSES ______________________ Ordered to be printed with amendments, 5 August, 1999 ______________________
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Table of Contents STANDING ORDERS
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Communication Between the Two Houses by Messages, Conferences and Committees | |||||||||||||||
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The Standing Orders OF THE Legislative Council RELATING TO PUBLIC BUSINESS ___________
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Amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 6th and 22nd October, 1903, and approved by the Governor, 30th October, 1903. | ||||||||||||||||
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Amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 4th August, 1914, and approved by the Governor, 13th August, 1914. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendment adopted by the Council, 19th November, 1918, and approved by the Governor, 10th July, 1919. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 2nd October, 1924, and approved by the Governor, 23rd October, 1924. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendment adopted by the Council, 6th December, 1939, and approved by the Governor, 11th January, 1940. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 22nd September, 1953, and approved by the Governor, 24th September, 1953. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 6th October, 1953, and approved by the Governor, 8th October, 1953. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendment adopted by the Council, 4th October, 1956, and approved by the Governor, 11th October, 1956. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 31st October, 1961, and approved by the Governor, 16th November, 1961. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 5th February, 1976, and approved by the Governor, 19th February, 1976. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendment adopted by the Council, 31st July, 1986, and approved by the Governor, 7th August, 1986. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 14th April, 1987, and approved by the Governor, 7th May, 1987. | ||||||||||||||||
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Further amended and amendments adopted by the Council, 5th August, 1999, and approved by the Governor, 9th September, 1999.
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Introductory |
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In all cases not provided for hereinafter or by Sessional or other Orders, the President shall decide, taking as the guide the rules, forms and usages of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in force from time to time so far as the same can be applied to the proceedings of the Council or any Committee thereof. |
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Except so far as is expressly provided herein, these Standing Orders shall in no way restrict the mode in which the Council may exercise and uphold its powers, privileges, and immunities. |
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The words and phrases following shall in these Orders have and include the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, viz:- |
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"Council" - The Legislative Council of South Australia; or the said Council sitting as a House and not in Committee: |
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"Clerk" - The Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of the Parliaments: |
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"Black Rod" - The Usher of the Black Rod: |
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"Minutes" - The Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council: |
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"Leave of the Council" - Leave granted without dissentient voice: |
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"Written" and "in writing" - Written by hand or imprinted, or partly the one and partly the other. |
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All previous Standing Rules and Orders of this Council relating to Public Business are hereby repealed. ______________
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Proceedings on the Opening of Parliament |
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On the Council assembling pursuant to the Proclamation convening the Parliament for the dispatch of business, the Clerk shall read the Proclamation, and the Council shall then await the arrival of the Governor or the Commission representing the Governor. |
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The Governor on arrival shall be announced by Black Rod, and shall be conducted to the Chair by the President, who shall take the chair on the right hand of the Governor. |
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The Commissioners of the Governor shall be announced and introduced to the Chamber by Black Rod. The Commission shall be read by the Clerk. |
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The Message to the House of Assembly from the Governor or Commissioner, requiring the attendance of that House in the Council Chamber shall be delivered by Black Rod. When the Members of the Assembly have come with their Speaker into the Chamber, the Bar shall be drawn until the departure of the Governor or the Commissioners. |
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New Members present shall be admitted within the Bar and take and subscribe the Oath or Affirmation provided by the Constitution, the Writ of Election of each Member, with the Return duly endorsed thereon, having been previously received and laid upon the Table. |
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If the office of President be vacant, the Council shall proceed to the election of a President, in manner hereinafter provided, so soon as the Commissioners shall have withdrawn. |
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See Orders Nos. 16-23. |
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Standing Committees shall be appointed. |
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The President shall lay on the Table a copy of the Governor’s Opening Speech, and a Committee to prepare a draft Address in Reply thereto shall be nominated, to whom the said Speech shall stand referred. |
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The Address, when reported by the Committee, shall be considered by the Council, and, when adopted, shall be presented to the Governor by the President, accompanied by any Members of the Council who may think fit to attend. |
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See also (Addresses) Orders Nos. 239-241. |
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Until the Address in Reply to the Governor’s Opening Speech has been adopted, no business beyond what is of a formal or unopposed character shall be entertained. |
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When the Opening Speech is delivered by the Sovereign in person:- |
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The Message to the House of Assembly mentioned in Standing Order No. 8 need not be sent and the Speaker and Members of the House of Assembly may be admitted to the Legislative Council Chamber without any such message; | |||||||||||||||
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Standing Order No. 5 shall apply as if the words "the Sovereign" were substituted for the words "the Governor or the Commission representing the Governor"; |
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Standing Order No. 6 shall apply as if the words "the Sovereign" were substituted for the words "The Governor"; |
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Standing Orders Nos. 12 and 14 shall apply as if the words "Speech of the Sovereign" were substituted for the words "Governor’s Opening Speech"; |
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Subject to the preceding paragraphs, the procedure set out in these Orders shall apply as when the Opening Speech is delivered by the Governor. |
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Election of President |
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At the time for election of a President a Member, addressing the Clerk, shall propose another Member then present to the Council for their President, and move that such Member be President of the Council. |
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Such motion having been seconded, if no other Member is proposed as President, the Member so proposed, being called to the Chair without question put, shall submit to the House; and being again called upon shall be conducted by the Mover and Seconder to the Chair. |
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In the event of there being two Members proposed and seconded for the office of President, the votes shall be taken by each Member of the Council then present delivering to the Clerk in writing the name of the Member whom the Member considers most fit and proper to be the President of the Council; and the Member obtaining the greater number of votes shall be declared elected, and conducted to the Chair as aforesaid. |
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If more than two Members have been so proposed and seconded the votes shall be taken in like manner, and the Member having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, provided that the Member has also a majority of the votes of the Members present; but if no candidate has such majority the name of the Member who has the smallest number of votes shall be withdrawn, and the votes shall be taken for the remaining candidates in like manner until the number is reduced to two; and of such two the Member in like manner obtaining the greater number of votes shall be the President, and shall be conducted to the Chair in manner aforesaid. |
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In the event of there being an equality of votes between candidates having the smaller number, or when the number of candidates is, or has been reduced to, two, the Clerk shall declare such to be the case, and the votes shall be again taken; when, if again there shall be an equality of votes, the Clerk shall determine by lot which name of such candidates shall be withdrawn, or which shall be deemed to have obtained the greater number of votes, as the case may be. |
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Prior to the President assuming the Chair, the Clerk shall act as Chairperson of the Council. |
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The President having assumed the Chair, and having received and acknowledged the congratulations of the Council, the Council shall notify such election to the Governor, by a Deputation of the said Council, at such time as the Governor shall be pleased to appoint. |
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In presentation to the Governor, the President shall, in the name and on behalf of the Council, lay claim to the right of free access to and communication with the Governor, and that the most favourable construction may be placed upon all the proceedings of the Council; and, being returned to the Chamber, the President shall report the circumstances of the presentation, and the reply of the Governor to the Deputation. |
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Absence of President and Vacancy |
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Whenever the Council shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence of the President, the Council shall choose some other Member who shall fill the office and perform the duties of President in relation to all proceedings of the Council as Deputy President until the next meeting of the Council, the question being put to the Council by the Clerk; and so on from day to day, on the like information being given to the Council, until the Council shall otherwise order: Provided that, if the Council shall adjourn for more than twenty-four hours, the Deputy President shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of President for twenty-four hours only after such adjournment. |
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In case of the absence of the President in consequence of leave granted to the President by the Council, the Council shall, in like manner, choose some other Member to fill the office and perform the duties of the President as Deputy President, and such other Member shall have all the powers and authorities of the President during such absence. |
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When a vacancy occurs in the office of President during a Session, the Clerk shall report the same to the Council on its next meeting, and the Council shall forthwith proceed to the election of a new President in the manner hereinbefore provided. |
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In the case of the unavoidable absence or the illness of the Clerk, the Clerk’s duties shall be performed by the Deputy Clerk. |
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Members’ Roll - The Minutes |
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A Members’ Roll shall be kept by the Clerk, showing the names of the Members elected, the date on which each Member was elected and takes the Oath or Affirmation, and the date of each Member’s ceasing to be a Member and the cause thereof. The name of each Member shall be written in the Member’s own handwriting on the said Roll, on the day on which such Member takes the Oath or Affirmation. |
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All proceedings in the Council and in Committee shall be noted by the Clerk, and, being printed by the Government Printer, shall be signed by the Clerk, and shall constitute the "Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council". |
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The Clerk shall keep a record of the names of all Members present during any part of each day’s proceedings, such record to be appended to each day’s Minutes. |
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The custody of all Documents and Papers belonging to the Council shall be in the Clerk who shall not permit any to be removed from the offices or produced in evidence without the express leave or order of the President or Council. |
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Attendance of Members and Leave of Absence |
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Every Member shall attend the service of the Council, unless leave of absence be given to the Member by the Council. |
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Leave of absence may be given by the Council to any Member for any sufficient cause to be stated to the Council. |
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Notice shall be given of a motion for giving leave of absence to any Member, stating the cause and period of absence. |
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A Member shall be excused from service in the Council or on any Committee so long as the Member has leave of absence. |
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Any Member, having leave of absence, shall forfeit the same by attending the service of the Council before the expiration of such leave. |
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Call of the Council |
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No order for a Call of the Council shall be made for any day earlier than seven days from the day on which such order shall have been made. |
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A notice of the order for a Call of the Council, signed by the Clerk, shall be forwarded to each Member of the Council. |
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For the purpose of enabling such notice to be given, Members shall, at the commencement of each Session, or so soon as they shall have taken their seats, enter their names and addresses in a book to be kept by the Clerk. |
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The order for calling over the Council on a future day shall be set down as the first Order of the Day for the day so appointed. |
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When the Order of the Day for calling over the Council is read, unless the same be postponed or discharged, the names of the Members shall be called over by the Clerk alphabetically. |
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The names of all Members who do not answer when called shall be taken down by the Clerk, and subsequently called over a second time; when those who answer, or afterwards attend in their places on the same day, may be excused. |
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Members not attending in their places on the day of a Call of the Council may be ordered to attend on a future day. |
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The seats nearest to the right hand of the President shall be reserved for Members holding office under the Crown. |
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Whenever a change of a Minister holding office under the Crown takes place, the outgoing Minister shall be entitled to take the seat vacated by the Minister’s successor. |
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Any question with regard to the seats to be occupied by new Members shall be determined by the President. |
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Members shall be entitled to retain the seats occupied by them at the time of their taking their seats for the first time after their election, so long as they may continue Members of the Council without re-election. |
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The Council shall, unless otherwise ordered, meet for the dispatch of business on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in each week of the Session, at the hour of fifteen minutes past two o’clock in the afternoon. |
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The bells shall be rung for five minutes prior to the time appointed for the meeting of the Council. |
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The President shall take the Chair at the time appointed for the meeting of the Council; and if a *Quorum be not present before the expiration of ten minutes after that time, the President shall declare the Council adjourned to the next sitting day. |
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*By the Constitution Act, section 26, a quorum of the Council consists of at least 10 Members, including the President, or the person chosen to preside in the President’s absence. | |||||||||||||||
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Upon the President taking the Chair each day, the President, or the President’s delegate, shall read the following Prayers: |
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Almighty God, we humbly beseech Thee to vouchsafe Thy blessing upon this Parliament. We pray Thee to direct and prosper our deliberations to the advancement of Thy Glory and the true Welfare of the people of this State. | |||||||||||||||
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Our Father, which art in Heaven, Hallowed by Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. |
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Whilst prayers are being read, Members shall stand in their places, the Bar being drawn. |
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A Member, having entered the Chamber after the time appointed for the meeting of the Council, shall not be permitted to withdraw until a Quorum be made up or the Council adjourn. |
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If it shall appear, on the report of a Division of the Council by the Tellers, or upon the report of the Chairperson of Committees, that a Quorum is not present, the President shall forthwith adjourn the Council to the next sitting day. No decision shall be considered to have been arrived at by such Division. |
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If a Member shall, at any time after the commencement of business, take notice that a Quorum is not present, the President shall count the Council; whereupon, if a Quorum be not present, the bells shall be rung as for a Division, and if a quorum be not made up before the expiration of two minutes, the President shall then forthwith adjourn the Council to the next sitting day. |
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When the President so proceeds to count the Council, no Member shall leave the Chamber until a Quorum be made up or the Council adjourn. |
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Whenever the Council is adjourned for want of a Quorum, the hour of adjournment and the names of the Members then present shall be entered in the Minutes. |
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Whenever the Council is adjourned for want of a Quorum to the next sitting day, and the same shall prove to be a public holiday proclaimed by the authority of the Government, then the Council shall stand adjourned to the next succeeding sitting day. |
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Except in the cases provided for in Orders Nos. 50, 53, 54 and 213, the Council can only be adjourned by its own resolution. |
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A motion "That the Council do now adjourn" may be made without notice at any time when no other Member is speaking or in possession of the House, and shall be moved and seconded without discussion and be immediately determined; but, if it be negatived, no such motion shall be again made within the next fifteen minutes, except by a Minister of the Crown. |
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This motion shall not be made or seconded during a debate by any Member who has already spoken in the debate, nor may the Mover of this Motion during the same debate either move it a second time or second it if moved by another Member; and similarly, a Seconder of this motion shall not subsequently move or again second it; but Members so moving or seconding shall not be held to have spoken in the debate. |
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See (Possession of House) Order No. 166; and (Other Summary Motions) Orders Nos. 127, 195. |
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If at half-past six of the clock the Council or a Committee of the Whole be sitting, the sitting of the Council or Committee shall be suspended for one hour, unless otherwise ordered: Provided that, if at the said time a Ballot or a Division shall have been ordered, the President, or the Chairperson of Committees, as the case may be, shall not leave the Chair until such Ballot or Division shall have been taken and any formal business immediately consequent thereon shall have been completed; after which it shall be in order on motion, without discussion or amendment - |
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To adjourn any question still pending, and any business remaining on the Notice Paper, to a future day; and |
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but if any one of these motions be negatived, the sitting shall be forthwith suspended for one hour. |
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A Notice Paper showing all business of which Notice has been given or respecting which Order has been made by the Council, and the respective days for which such business is set, shall be prepared each sitting day by the Clerk, and, being signed by the Clerk, shall be printed and circulated amongst Members, and be appended to the Minutes. |
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Unless otherwise ordered, Government Business shall on Tuesdays and Thursdays be entitled to take precedence on the Notice Paper of all other business, and Private Business on Wednesdays to the like precedence of Government Business: |
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Notices of Motion shall, as a rule, have priority on the Notice Paper over Orders of the Day; but a Minister may arrange the order of Government Business as the Minister thinks fit. |
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Subject to preceding Standing Orders, Notices shall be entered on the Notice Paper in the order in which they were delivered at the Table and Orders of the Day according to priority of appointment. |
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The Council shall, unless it otherwise directs, proceed each day with its ordinary business in the following order - 1. Presentation of Petitions. 2. Replies to Questions on Notice. 3. Tabling of Papers and Committee Reports. 4. Ministerial Statements. 5. Asking Questions without Notice and giving Notices of Motion. 6. The Business of the Day as set down on the Notice Paper. |
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In addition to Ministerial Statements being made in accordance with Order No. 67, Ministerial Statements may be made at any other time, by leave of the Council. |
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At the conclusion of the period for Questions without Notice on Wednesdays, Members may make statements on matters of interest. Up to seven Members may speak for a maximum of five minutes each. The President may order the Member to be seated if, in the opinion of the President, the Member infringes Standing Orders governing the rules of debate. |
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When the Business of the Day is called on by the Clerk, any Member in charge of any Order of the Day which appears on the Notice Paper or which may have lapsed therefrom, may move, without notice, that such Order be postponed, discharged, or revived for a future day, as the case may be; but no discussion or amendment shall be allowed on such motions. |
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Unless otherwise ordered, the period for asking Questions without Notice and giving Notices of Motion may not exceed one hour. If, however, before the expiration of one hour, a Question is in the process of being answered, then that Question may be answered even though the period of one hour has expired. |
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The Business of the Day, when called on, shall, unless it be otherwise ordered, be proceeded with, and be disposed of in rotation, each Notice of Motion or Order being read by the Clerk at the Table: Provided that, on days on which Private Business has precedence, Government Business of the Day shall stand postponed to any Private Business which may have been previously interrupted and which the Council may order to be resumed. |
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A Notice of Motion called on in its order and not moved shall lapse. |
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Orders of the Day which have been read and not moved or disposed of prior to the adjournment of the Council shall lapse; but they may be revived on Motion after notice, or as provided in Order No. 68. |
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If, at the adjournment of the Council, any Notices of Motion or Orders of the Day have not been called on or read, such Notices and Orders of the Day shall be set down on the Notice Paper for the next sitting day, at the end of the business already appointed for that day. |
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If the Council adjourns over a day for which business has been appointed, such business shall be placed on the Notice Paper for the next sitting day, at the end of the business already appointed for that day, unless otherwise ordered. |
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Whenever the business before the Council shall have been interrupted by the receipt of a Message from the Governor or the House of Assembly and by the consequent dealing therewith, or by the holding of a Conference, or by any proceeding other than the calling on of the Business of the Day, the said business shall, so soon as the cause of such interruption has been disposed of, the Council not being adjourned, be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted. |
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Any business interrupted by adjournment of the Council may be ordered to be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted, on Motion after Notice, or as provided in Order No. 68. |
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Any motion connected with the ordering of the business of the Council may be moved by a Minister of the Crown at any time without notice. |
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Every Petition shall be lodged with the Clerk at least two hours previously to the meeting of the Council at which it is proposed to present the same; and no Petition shall be presented to the Council unless it bears the Clerk’s certificate that it is in conformity with the Standing Orders. |
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No Petition shall be presented after the Council shall have proceeded to the giving of Notices, unless such Petition refer to the question before the Chair, when it may be presented at the time the Notice of Motion or Order of the Day is called on. |
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Every Petition shall be fairly written, and contain a prayer at the end thereof. |
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Every Petition shall be in the English language, or be accompanied by an English translation certified by the Member who presents it to be correct. |
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Every Petition must be signed by at least one person at the foot thereof, and upon the same sheet or skin as that upon which the prayer has been inscribed. |
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Every Petition shall be signed personally by the parties thereto, with their names and addresses, and shall not be signed by deputy, except under power of attorney or in cases of incapacity by sickness; and in all such instances the person actually signing shall affix their own name and address as well as those of the person for whom the person signs. Persons not knowing how to write shall affix their marks in the presence of a witness, who, shall, as such, affix their own name and address. |
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Every signature shall be upon the sheets bearing, or attached to the Petition itself, and not be pasted thereon or otherwise transferred thereto. |
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All Petitions shall be received only as the petitions of the parties signing the same. |
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Petitions of Corporations aggregate shall be under their common seal. |
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No letters, affidavits, or other documents shall be attached to any Petition, not being a Petition for a Private Bill. |
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Every Petition shall be decorous and temperate in its language, and not disrespectful to any branch of the Legislature. |
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Petitions can only be presented to the Council by a Member. |
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A Member cannot present a Petition on the Member’s behalf. |
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The name of a Member presenting a Petition shall be affixed at the beginning thereof, with the number of signatures. |
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The Clerk shall make an announcement to the Council as to the Petitions lodged with the Clerk for presentation to the Council (except a Petition for a Private Bill or relating to a Private Bill before the Council), indicating in the case of each Petition, the Member who lodged it, the identity of the petitioners and the subject matter of the Petition. A Member may, however, present a Petition personally, indicating the identity of the petitioners, and the subject matter of the Petition before bringing it to the Table. No discussion on the subject matter of a Petition shall be allowed and every Petition so presented shall be deemed to have been received by the Council: Provided that in the case of a Petition complaining of some present personal grievance, for which there may be an urgent necessity for providing an immediate remedy, the matters contained in such Petition may be brought into discussion on the presentation thereof. |
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No Member shall move that a Petition be printed unless the Member shall state it to be their intention to make a motion upon the subject to which the Petition relates. |
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No Petition, the prayer of which is for a distinct grant of money, shall be received by the Council. |
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Notice of Motion shall be given at the time of giving Notices, unless otherwise provided, by a Member reading it aloud, and delivering at the Table a copy thereof fairly written, signed by the Member, and showing the day proposed for bringing on such motion. |
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A Member may give Notice of Question by delivering a written copy of such Question to the Clerk not less than two hours before the time appointed for the meeting of the Council. |
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When Notice of Question is given pursuant to Order 98a, the Clerk shall place the same on the Notice Paper and shall show on the Notice Paper the day on which such Question was first printed. |
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The Answer to a Question on Notice pursuant to Order 98a shall be given by delivering the Answer in writing to the Clerk not less than two hours before the time appointed for the meeting of the Council on any day. After presentation of Petitions on each day, the President shall direct that a copy of such Answer be provided by the Clerk forthwith to the Member who asked the Question, the subject of the Answer. The President shall further direct that such Question and Answer be printed in Hansard as part of the proceedings of that day. |
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No Notice of a Question addressed to the President shall be given for entry on the Notice Paper. |
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A Member may give notice for another Member not then present. The names of both Members must appear on the Notice. |
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A Member desiring to change the day for bringing on a Motion, may give fresh Notice for any day subsequent to that first named. |
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After a Notice has been given, the terms thereof may be altered by the Member reading aloud and delivering at the Table, at the usual time of giving Notices, an amended Notice, any day prior to that appointed for proceeding with the motion; but such amended Notice must not exceed the scope of the original Notice. |
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No Notice shall be received after the Council shall have proceeded to the Business of the Day. |
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If any Notice contains unbecoming expressions, or offends against any Standing or other Order of the Council, the President shall amend the same or order that it be not printed; or it may be expunged from the Notice Paper by order of the Council. |
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If a Notice of Motion be given which contains matter not relevant to each other, the President may instruct the Clerk to divide such Notice into two or more Notices. |
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A Member may not give two Notices consecutively, if another Member has a Notice to give. |
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At the time of giving Notices, Questions may be put to a Minister of the Crown relating to public affairs; and to other Members, relating to any Bill, Motion, or other public matter connected with the business of the Council, in which such Members may be specially concerned. |
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Whenever a Question is answered after Notice, it shall be open to any Member to put further Questions arising out of and relevant to the answer given. |
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In putting any Question, no argument, opinion or hypothetical case shall be offered, nor inference or imputation made, nor shall any facts be stated or quotations made including quotations from Hansard of the debates in the other House, except by leave of the Council and so far only as may be necessary to explain such question. |
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In answering any Question, a Member shall not debate the matter to which the same refers. |
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A Minister of the Crown may, on the ground of public interest, decline to answer a Question; and may, for the same reason, give a reply to a Question which, when called on, is not asked. |
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No substantive Motion shall, unless by leave of the Council, or in pursuance of these Orders, be moved except after Notice openly given at a previous sitting of the Council and duly entered on the Notice Paper. |
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In the absence of a Member who has given Notice of a Motion, the same may not, except by leave of the Council and at the request of such Member, be moved by another Member. |
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A Debate on any definite matter of urgent public importance, the nature of which shall be stated in writing to the President - and of which urgency the rising in their places of three Members shall be sufficient evidence - may be allowed on a Motion, without notice, that the Council at its rising adjourn to some irregular day or hour, provided that it be moved after the giving of Notices and before the Business of the Day has been proceeded with. |
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No Motion under the next preceding Order, or otherwise, shall seek to anticipate Debate upon any matter which appears upon the Notice Paper. |
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A Motion for a Vote of Thanks of the Council may be moved, without notice, by a Minister of the Crown. |
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A Motion, not being an Order of the Day, if not seconded, may not be further debated, and no entry thereof shall be made in the Minutes. |
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A Motion which has lapsed, or has been withdrawn or superseded, or which has not been seconded, may be again made after notice. |
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A motion shall, after a Question has been proposed thereon, be deemed to be in possession of the House, but, by leave of the Council, it may be withdrawn by the mover, provided that, if an amendment has been moved thereto, such amendment has been first disposed of. |
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No Question shall be proposed which is the same in substance as any question or amendment which during the same Session has been resolved in the affirmative or negative, unless the resolution of the Council on such question or amendment shall have been first read and rescinded. This Standing Order shall not be suspended. |
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So soon as the debate upon a Question is concluded, the President shall "put" the Question to the Council. |
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A motion "That the Question be now put" may be made without notice at any time during a debate by a Member who has not already spoken in the debate, if so made as not to interrupt a Member speaking, and shall be moved and seconded without discussion and be immediately determined; but if it be negatived, no such motion shall be again made within the next fifteen minutes, except by the Member in charge of the Bill or other matter which is in question. |
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If the Motion "That the Question be now put" be carried, the Council shall without further debate or amendment, vote on the question immediately before it, and, subject to the discretion of the President, on any other question already proposed from the Chair and still pending; but if such motion be negatived, the debate on the question shall be resumed. |
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A Question when put shall, except as provided in Orders Nos. 159 and 457, be resolved in the affirmative or negative by the majority of voices "Aye" or "No". |
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By inserting or adding words. |
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Every Amendment must be in writing and signed by the mover. |
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Every Amendment must be relevant to the question to which it is moved. |
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An Amendment moved but not seconded, shall not be further proceeded with, nor shall it be entered in the Minutes. |
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When the proposed Amendment is to leave out certain words, the President shall put a question, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." |
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When the proposed Amendment is to leave out certain words in order to insert or add other words, the President shall first put a question, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question", which, if resolved in the affirmative, shall dispose of the Amendment; but if in the negative, another question shall be put, "That the words of the Amendment be inserted (or added) in lieu of the words left out." No Amendment to the words proposed to be inserted or added can be entertained until the amendment to leave out certain words has been determined. |
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When the proposed Amendment is to insert or add certain words, the President shall put a question, "That the words proposed to be inserted (or added) be so inserted (or added)". |
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No Amendment shall be proposed to any prior part of a question after an Amendment has been made or has been proposed from the chair to a later part, unless such last-named Amendment has been, by leave of the Council, withdrawn. |
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No Amendment shall be proposed to be made to any words which the Council has resolved shall stand part of the question or which have been inserted in or added to a question, except it be the addition of other words thereto. |
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No Amendment shall be proposed which is the same in substance as any Question or Amendment which during the same Session has been resolved in the affirmative or negative unless the resolution of the Council on such Question or Amendment shall have been first read and rescinded. This Standing Order shall not be suspended. |
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A proposed Amendment may, by leave of the Council, be withdrawn by the Mover; and may be again moved. |
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Amendments may be proposed to a proposed Amendment, as if such proposed Amendment were a main question. |
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When Amendments have been made, the main question, as amended, shall be put. |
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When Amendments have been proposed but not made, the question shall be put as originally proposed. |
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The Previous Question may be moved without notice, and shall be put in the form "That the original question (or the original question as amended) be not now put." |
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If it be resolved in the affirmative, the Council shall proceed to the next business on the Notice Paper; but the original motion may be revived on Motion after Notice, or as provided in Order No. 68. |
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If it be resolved in the negative, the original question, amended or otherwise, shall be put forthwith without any further amendment or debate. |
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The Previous Question cannot be moved upon an amendment, nor can it be itself amended. |
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The Previous Question cannot be moved after an amendment to the original question has been proposed from the Chair, until such amendment has been disposed of; nor can any such amendment be moved after the Previous Question has been proposed from the Chair, unless the Previous Question be first withdrawn. |
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The Previous Question cannot be moved or debated by a Member who has already spoken in the debate. |
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Whenever the Previous Question shall be moved upon any question consisting of a series of propositions which have been brought under discussion or debate as one motion, with the understanding that the question be put on such propositions seriatim, the decision of the Previous Question, before putting the question on the first of such propositions, shall be taken and held to be conclusive, whether in the affirmative or negative, as regards the whole of such propositions. |
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In debating the Previous Question, Members may debate the original question, whether amended or not, and the whole debate is open to adjournment. |
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The Previous Question may, be leave of the Council, be withdrawn by the Mover; and may be again moved during the same debate. |
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An Order of the Day is a Bill or other matter which the House has ordered to be taken into consideration on a particular day. |
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An Order of the Day does not require a seconder. |
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An Order of the Day may, on the motion of the Member in charge thereof, be discharged on being read or after it has been debated, or as provided in Order No. 68. |
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In the absence of the Member in charge thereof an Order of the Day may be moved or postponed by any other Member, but may not be discharged except on Motion after Notice. |
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When postponing an Order of the Day it shall not be competent to propose, by way of amendment, a time beyond the probable duration of the Session, except after Notice. |
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By Resolution the Council declares its opinions and purposes; and by Orders it directs its Committees, Members, and Officers, and other persons, and the order of its own proceedings. |
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A Resolution of the Council may be read and rescinded; but no such Resolution may be rescinded during the same Session, except with the concurrence of an absolute majority of the whole number of Members of the Council upon Motion after at least seven days’ Notice: Provided that to correct irregularities or mistakes one day’s Notice only shall be sufficient. |
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An Order of the Council may be read and discharged, or the proceedings thereon may be declared to be null and void, on Motion after Notice. |
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Whenever the President rises during a debate, any Member then speaking or offering to speak shall sit down, and the Council shall be silent, so that the President may be heard without interruption. |
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When the President is putting a question, no Member shall walk out of or across the Chamber. |
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Members shall be uncovered when entering or leaving the Chamber, or moving to any other part of the Chamber during a debate; and shall make obeisance to the Chair on so entering or leaving the Chamber. |
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No Member shall pass between the President and the Member who is speaking. |
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Members shall take their places when they come into the Chamber, and shall not at any time stand in any of the passages or gangways when attention is called thereto by the President. |
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Whenever a Notice of Motion is called on, or an Order of the Day is read, the Member in charge of the business in question, or entitled to preaudience thereon, shall be held to be in possession of the House, if the Member desires to speak. |
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Every Member desiring to speak shall rise uncovered, in their place or in the place of some other Member who does not object thereto, and address the President; and may advance to the Table for the purpose of continuing the address. |
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By the indulgence of the Council, a Member unable conveniently to stand, by reason of sickness or infirmity, may speak sitting and uncovered. |
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If two or more Members rise to speak at the same time, the President shall name the Member whom the President first saw rising to speak; which Member shall be entitled to preaudience. |
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Speeches must not be read, but Members may refer to notes. |
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A Member may only speak - |
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If a Member, having risen and being called upon by the President, fails to begin (or to proceed) speaking, the President may direct such Member to be seated, and may call upon some other Member. |
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By the indulgence of the Council, a Member may explain matters of a personal nature although there be no question before the Council; but such matters may not be debated. |
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No Member may speak more than once during a debate, except in explanation or reply or to a point of Order or Privilege suddenly arising: |
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A Member who has spoken may again be heard, to explain in regard to some material part of the speech on which the Member has been misquoted or misunderstood, but shall not introduce any new matter or interrupt any Member in possession of the Chair. |
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Reply shall be allowed to a Member who has made a substantive Motion, but not to any Member who has moved an amendment, the Previous Question or an Instruction to a Committee. |
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Where a Member has, by leave of the Council, moved a Motion, Notice of which was given by another Member, the right of Reply shall belong to the former, but may be waived by that Member in favour of the other Member. |
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The Reply of the Mover of the original Motion closes the debate. |
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It shall be competent to a Member when seconding a Motion or amendment without speaking to it, to address the Council on the subject of such Motion or amendment at some subsequent period of the debate. |
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Upon a Motion for the printing of a Paper, made by a Minister of the Crown without notice when laying the same on the Table, no discussion shall arise unless the Motion has been moved for the purpose of making a Ministerial statement. |
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No Members shall converse aloud or make repeated interjections or other disturbance whilst any other Member is orderly debating, or whilst any Bill, Order, or other matter is being read or opened. |
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No Member shall interrupt another Member whilst speaking, unless (I.) the words of the Member speaking be taken down: (II.) to call attention to a point of Order or Privilege suddenly arising: or (III.) to call attention to the want of a Quorum.. |
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No Member may speak to any Question after the same has been put by the President and the voices have been given in the affirmative and negative thereon. |
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Every Member may of right require the original Question, or any Amendment proposed thereto, to be read by the Clerk for the Member’s information at any time during a debate, but not so as to interrupt a Member speaking. |
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No Member shall digress from the subject matter of the Question under discussion, or anticipate debate on any matter which appears on the Notice Paper. |
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The President may call attention to the conduct of a Member who persists in continued irrelevance, prolixity, or tedious repetition, and may direct such Member to discontinue speaking and to be seated. The Member so directed shall not be again heard during the same debate. |
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No Member shall allude to any debate of the same Session upon a Question or Bill not being then under discussion nor to any speech made in Committee, except by the indulgence of the Council for personal explanation. |
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No Member shall quote from any debate of the current Session in the other House of Parliament or comment on any measure pending therein unless such quotation be relevant to the matter then under discussion. |
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No Member shall read extracts from newspapers or other documents, referring to debates in the Council during the same Session, excepting Hansard. |
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No reference shall be made to any proceedings of a Committee of the whole Council or of a Select Committee, until such proceedings have been reported. |
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No Member shall use the Sovereign’s name or the name of the Governor irreverently or to influence a debate. |
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No Member shall reflect upon any vote of the Council or upon any Statute, except upon a Motion for rescinding or repealing the same. |
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The use of objectionable or offensive words shall be considered highly disorderly; and no injurious reflections shall be permitted upon the Governor or the Parliament of this State, or of the Commonwealth, or any Member thereof, nor upon any of the Judges or Courts of Law, unless it be upon a specific charge on a substantive Motion after Notice. |
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A Debate may be adjourned either to a later hour of the same day or to any other sitting day. |
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A Motion - "That this Debate be now adjourned" - may be moved without Notice at any time during a debate by a Member who has not already spoken in the debate, if so made as not to interrupt a Member speaking, and shall be moved and seconded without discussion, and be immediately determined; but if negatived, no such Motion shall be again entertained within the next fifteen minutes, unless moved by the Member in charge of the Bill or other matter which is in debate. Members moving or seconding this Motion shall not be held to have spoken in the debate. |
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Upon a Debate being adjourned, a Motion shall be made to appoint a time for its resumption, the debate whereupon shall be strictly limited to the choice of date; nor shall a day beyond the probable duration of the Session be proposed by way of amendment thereto except after Notice. |
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It is not competent for a Member to move, while speaking to a Question, the adjournment of the Debate; but at the unanimous pleasure of the Council leave may be obtained for the Member’s speech to be concluded at a future time, and the Debate shall be thereby adjourned. |
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The Member, upon whose Motion any Debate shall be adjourned, shall be entitled to preaudience on the resumption of the Debate; but a Member who is granted leave to continue speaking and fails so to continue immediately on resumption of the Debate, shall not speak again at any subsequent stage of the debate. |
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Order shall be maintained in the Council by the President. |
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Members may rise at any time to speak "to Order" or upon a matter of Privilege suddenly arising, except that while the Council is dividing, a Member can only speak to a point of Order by permission of the President and while covered and seated. |
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All Questions of Order or Privilege shall temporarily suspend the consideration and decision of every other Question; but an adjourned debate on such Questions shall not be entitled to precedence unless so ordered. |
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All Questions of Privilege, except a Question arising out of the relations between the two Houses of Parliament, shall be at once referred without debate to a Committee of Privilege for inquiry and report, if a Minister of the Crown so claims or the Council so resolves; and on the report of the Committee being received, the Council may take such action as shall appear expedient. |
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Any Member, complaining to the Council of a statement in a newspaper as a Breach of Privilege, shall produce a copy of the paper containing the statement in question, and be prepared to give the name of the printer or publisher. |
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Upon a Point of Order being raised, the Member called to Order shall be seated, and after the Question of Order has been stated to the President by the Member rising thereto, the President shall give a ruling or decision thereon. |
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If any objection be taken to a ruling or decision of the President, such objection shall, except during a Division, be taken at once and not otherwise; and having been stated in writing, a Motion shall be made, which, if seconded, shall be proposed to the Council and debate thereon shall stand adjourned and be the first Order of the Day for the next sitting day, unless the Council decides that the matter requires immediate determination. |
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If any question arise on any Point of Order during a Division, the President shall decide it, and no exception shall be taken to such decision until the Division is concluded. |
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When any Member objects to words used in debate, and stating them, desires that they should be taken down, the President, if it appears to be the pleasure of the Council, shall direct them to be taken down by the Clerk accordingly. |
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The President shall similarly report to the Council any Member whom the Chairperson of Committees shall have reported as having committed any of the foregoing offences in a Committee of the whole Council. |
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When any Member shall be so reported by the President, a Motion may forthwith be made - "That such Member be suspended from the service of the Council" - and such Motion shall be moved and seconded without discussion and be immediately determined. |
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If a Member be suspended, the Suspension shall, unless otherwise ordered, be on the first occasion for the remainder of that day’s sitting; on the second occasion of the same Session, for one week; and on the third or any subsequent occasion of the same Session, for one month. |
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A Member who has been suspended shall immediately withdraw from the precincts of the Council, and shall not presume to re-enter the Chamber during the period of the suspension. Black Rod shall act upon such orders as may be received from the Chair in pursuance of this Order. |
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In cases of very grave disorder the President may, if the President thinks it necessary so to do, adjourn the Council without question put, or suspend the sitting for a time to be named by the President. |
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Whenever a Charge is made against a Member upon any matter which has been reported from a Committee or has otherwise arisen, the Charge must be raised upon a substantive Motion after Notice, and shall be stated before the Member accused shall withdraw. Such Member shall then be allowed the opportunity of explaining to the Council the motives of the conduct in the matter alleged against the Member; after which the Member shall withdraw, and the Council shall at once take the case into consideration. |
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If any Member shall wilfully disobey any Order of the Council, the Member may be ordered to attend in the Member’s place, or, if the Member be under suspension, at the Bar, to answer for the conduct; and, in default, or if the Member’s excuses be deemed unsatisfactory, the Member may be suspended or otherwise dealt with, at the pleasure of the Council. |
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Black Rod shall, on being directed by the President, deliver into custody any Stranger whom the President may see, or who may be reported to the President to be in any part of the Chamber appropriated to the Members of the Council; and also, any Stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the Chamber or Gallery, shall display improper conduct or shall not withdraw when Strangers are ordered to withdraw, or who shall obstruct the approaches to the Chamber or occasion a disturbance within the precincts thereof. |
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If a Member or other person be ordered into custody, the arrest shall be reported to the Council by the President without delay; and a time shall be fixed for such Member or other person to be brought to the Bar to be censured, fined, committed, or otherwise dealt with by the Council. The Member or person so committed shall remain in custody for the period directed, unless sooner discharged by order of the Council, or the fine be paid, or the Session of Parliament be concluded. |
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The Council shall interfere to prevent the prosecution of any quarrel between Members arising out of debates or proceedings of the Council or any Committee thereof. |
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The Council shall not proceed to a Division if only one voice has been given for the Ayes or for the Noes. |
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A Member calling for a Division shall not leave the Chamber until the Division is concluded, and shall vote with those whose voices, in the opinion of the President, were in the minority. |
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A call for a Division may, by leave of the Council, be withdrawn, at any time before the Tellers are appointed, and the Division shall not be proceeded with. |
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Before the Division is proceeded with, the Clerk shall ring the Division bells, and turn a two-minute sand-glass kept on the Table for that purpose, and, so soon after the lapse of two minutes as the President shall direct, the doors shall be closed and locked, and so remain until the Division is concluded, so that no Member may enter or leave the Chamber. |
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When the doors have been locked and the Bar drawn, and all the Members are in their places, the President shall again put the question to the Council, and direct the "Ayes" to proceed to the right side of the Chair, and the "Noes" to the left side, and shall appoint one Teller for each party. |
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Every Member, except the President, present within the Bar when the Question is so put, and qualified to vote, shall be required to vote. |
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No Member shall be entitled to vote upon any question in which the Member has a direct pecuniary interest not held in common with the rest of the subjects of the Crown, and the vote of any Member so interested may, on Motion, be disallowed by the Council; but this Order shall not apply to Motions or Public Bills which involve questions of State policy. |
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No Member shall be entitled to vote unless the Member was present within the Bar when the Question was put with the doors locked, and the vote of any Member not so present shall be disallowed by the President. |
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Members having taken their sides, every Member shall then be counted and the Member’s name taken down by the Teller for the respective side, who shall sign the list and present the same to the President, who will declare the result to the Council. |
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If there shall be only a single Member on one of the sides, the Division shall not further proceed; and the President shall declare for the "Ayes" or "Noes" as the case may be. |
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In the case of confusion or error concerning the names or the numbers reported, unless the same can be otherwise corrected, the Council shall proceed to another Division. |
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If it shall afterwards appear that the names or numbers have been inaccurately recorded, the President shall order the Minutes to be corrected. |
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In the case of an equality of votes, the President shall give a *Casting Voice, and any reason given by the President shall be entered in the Minutes. |
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The Division lists shall be entered by the Clerk in the Minutes. |
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Before the Council proceeds to Ballot, the bells shall be rung for two minutes as for a Division. |
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The Ballot shall be taken in the following manner:- A list of the Members, initialled by the Clerk, shall be handed to each Member present, who shall strike out thereon the names of so many Members as are required to be elected whom the Member may think fit and proper to be chosen; and when all the lists are collected, the Clerk, together with two Members to be named by the President, shall ascertain and report to the President the names of the required number of Members having the greatest number of votes; which Members shall be declared to be duly elected. In case of a tie between two or more Members, the President shall determine by lot which shall be chosen. If any list contains a larger or lesser number of names than is required it shall be void and rejected. |
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Addresses to the Sovereign, to either House of the Imperial or the Commonwealth Parliament, or to the Governor, shall be proposed on Motion after Notice, except in cases of urgency, and when agreed to shall be signed by the President. |
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Addresses of congratulation and of condolence to Members of the Royal Family, and to other persons, shall be proposed and signed in a similar manner. |
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Addresses to the Sovereign, or any Members of the Royal Family, and to other persons, shall be transmitted to the Governor by the President, requesting the Governor to cause the same to be forwarded for presentation. |
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Addresses to either House of the Imperial or Commonwealth Parliament shall be forwarded in a similar manner for presentation, or, by vote of the Council, be transmitted for that purpose by the President to some Peer or Member of the said Parliaments. |
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Addresses to the Governor shall be presented by the President, unless ordered to be presented by the Council in a body or by a deputation of Members named for that purpose. |
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When an Address is ordered to be presented by the whole Council, the President, with the Council, shall proceed to Government House, and being admitted to the Governor’s presence, the President shall read the Address to the Governor, the Members who moved and seconded such Address being on the President’s left hand. |
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When an Address has been presented to the Governor by the whole Council, the Governor’s reply shall be reported to the Council by the President; but if by a deputation, then by the Member first named thereon. |
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Whenever a Message from the Governor shall be announced by Black Rod, the business of the Council shall be immediately suspended, and the bearer of the Message shall be introduced to deliver the same to the President in the Chair. |
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The President shall immediately read the Message to the Council, Members being uncovered. |
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So soon as the Message has been read, the bearer of the Message shall withdraw. |
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The Message may, if necessary, be at once considered, or may be ordered to be printed and a future time fixed for its consideration. |
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A Message from the Governor may be communicated to the Council by a Minister of the Crown from the Minister’s place in the Council. |
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Communication with the House of Assembly shall be by Message, by Conference, or by Committees conferring with each other. |
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A Motion to communicate any Resolution of the Council to the House of Assembly by Message may be moved without Notice. |
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Every Message from the Council to the House of Assembly shall be in writing and signed by the President, and shall be delivered by the Clerk, the Deputy Clerk, or a Clerk-Assistant, during the sitting of the Council. |
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Every Message from the House of Assembly to the Council shall be received without delay by the Deputy Clerk, or a Clerk-Assistant, at the Bar, and be reported by the President as early as may be convenient. A future time shall then be appointed for its consideration unless the Council orders it to be dealt with forthwith. |
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Conferences desired by the Council with the House of Assembly shall in all cases be requested by Message. |
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In requesting a Conference, the Message from the Council shall state in general terms the object for which the Conference is desired, and the number of Managers proposed to serve thereon, which shall, unless otherwise ordered, be not less than five. |
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Every Motion for requesting a Conference shall contain the names of the Members proposed by the Mover to be the Managers for the Council, but if, upon such Motion, any one Member shall so require, the Managers for the Council shall be selected by ballot. |
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Conferences may be held during any adjournment of the Council, but when held during a sitting, the business of the Council shall be suspended, unless otherwise ordered by the Council. |
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No Conference shall be requested by the Council upon the subject of any Bill or Motion of which the House of Assembly is at the time in possession. |
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The number of Managers to represent the Council in a Conference requested by the House of Assembly shall be the same as that of the Managers for the House of Assembly. |
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In respect of a Conference requested by the House of Assembly, the time and place for holding the same shall be appointed by the Council; and when the Council requests a Conference, it shall agree to its being held at such time and place as shall be appointed by the House of Assembly. Such appointment or agreement shall be communicated by Message. |
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At all Conferences requested by the House of Assembly, the Managers for the Council shall assemble at the time and place appointed, and receive the Managers for the House of Assembly. |
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The Resolutions to be communicated by the Managers for the Council shall be in writing; and the Managers for the Council shall not receive any communication from the Managers for the House of Assembly unless the same be in writing. |
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When the Conference has terminated, the Managers for the Council shall report the result to the Council in writing forthwith or at such time as the Council has otherwise ordered. |
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There shall be only one Conference on any Bill or other matter. |
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When any such leave has been granted or order made, it shall be communicated by Message to the House of Assembly, with a request that leave may be given to the similar Committee of that House to confer with the Committee of the Council. |
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Every Committee of the Council conferring with any Committee of the House of Assembly may confer freely by word of mouth, unless the Council shall otherwise order. |
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A Report of the proceedings of every Conference between a Committee of the Council and a Committee of the House of Assembly shall be made in writing to the Council, signed by the Chairperson of its own Committee. |
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Every Bill not initiated under the Private Bill Orders or ruled to be a Private Bill shall be deemed to be a Public Bill. |
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Every Public Bill, except such as may be brought from the House of Assembly, shall be initiated, either by a Motion asking for leave to bring in the Bill and specifying its Title; or by a Motion to nominate a Committee, of not less than two Members, to prepare and bring it in. |
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The Member having leave, or one of the Committee appointed, to bring in a Bill, shall present a fair copy thereof, signed by the Member, to the Council, at the Bar, and may so present it at any time when other business is not before the Council. |
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Such matters as have no proper relation to each other shall not be included in one and the same Bill. |
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In every Bill, as presented to the Council, the Title shall coincide with the Order of Leave, and there shall be no clause that is not within the Title. |
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The duration of any Bill, the provisions of which are intended to be temporary, shall be inserted in a distinct clause at the end thereof. |
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If more than one Bill dealing with the same subject appears on the Notice Paper, such of them as the Council may decide shall be withdrawn or deferred, or the Bills may be consolidated. |
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Every Bill not prepared pursuant to the Order of Leave, or according to the Standing Orders of the Council, shall be withdrawn, unless at the time of the irregularity being noticed the Bill is before a Committee; and if withdrawn, a new Bill may be forthwith presented in lieu thereof under the same Order of Leave. |
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If any Bill or Amendment received from the House of Assembly be a Bill or Amendment for the Appropriation of any part of the Revenue, or of any tax, rate, duty, or impost, the Council will not proceed with such Bill or Amendment unless the Clerk of the House of Assembly shall have certified upon the Bill that the purpose of such appropriation has been recommended to the House of Assembly by the Governor during the current Session.* |
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If any Bill, introduced in the Council by the Government, contains a clause - or if a new clause or amendment is inserted therein in Committee - by which, in order to the better carrying out of the main objects of the measure, Revenue or other public money is appropriated, or if such clause or amendment deals with taxation or the raising, guaranteeing, or repaying, of any loan, the said clause or amendment shall be printed in erased type and shall not be deemed to form any part of the Bill. The Message transmitting the Bill to the House of Assembly for its concurrence shall also draw attention to the suggestion indicated by the clause or amendment printed in erased type, stating that such a clause or amendment cannot originate in the Council, but is deemed necessary to the Bill. |
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If any Bill received from the House of Assembly be a Bill by which an alteration in the Constitution of the Council or House of Assembly is made, the Council will not proceed with such Bill unless the Clerk of the House of Assembly shall have certified upon the Bill that its second and third readings have been passed with the concurrence of an absolute majority of the whole number of the Members of the House of Assembly.* |
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On every order for the reading of a Bill, the Title only shall be read. |
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If the question that a Bill be now read a second or a third time be negatived, the Bill may be revived, on Motion after Notice or as provided in Order No. 68, but if the Bill be ordered to be read a second or a third time "this day six months", it shall be withdrawn from the Notice Paper, and shall not be revived during the same Session. This Standing Order shall not be suspended. |
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Before the question for the second or third reading of a Bill to alter the Constitution of either House of the Legislature is put from the Chair, the President shall count the Council; and, if the question be carried by a majority less than an absolute majority of the whole number of the Members of the Council, the Bill shall be read a second or third time, as the case may be, but shall not be further proceeded with, nor shall it be revived during the same Session. This Standing Order shall not be suspended. |
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Upon a Bill being presented by a Member or received in due order from the House of Assembly for the concurrence of the Legislative Council, the Bill shall be read a first time without any question being put. |
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After the first reading, the Bill shall be printed and the second reading of the Bill may be moved forthwith or on motion at a later hour of the same day or made an Order of the Day for a future day. If the second reading of the Bill is moved forthwith after its first reading, the debate thereon shall be immediately adjourned until a future day. |
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On the Order of the Day being read for the Second Reading of a Bill, the Question shall be proposed "That this Bill be now read a second time". |
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To such Question the only Amendments which may be moved shall be - |
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Every Bill, on being read a second time, shall, except as provided in Order No. 282, stand committed, and unless it be on motion or by these Orders, referred to a Select Committee, or a Motion be made for the Committee stages to be taken on motion at a later hour of the same day or made an Order of the Day for a future day, the President shall leave the Chair and the Council shall resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole for the consideration of the Bill: Provided that where notice of an Instruction has been given such Instruction may be first disposed of. |
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No Motion for referring a Bill to a Select Committee shall be entertained after the Chairperson of Committees shall have reported the Bill. |
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The following order shall be observed in considering a Bill and its title, viz.:- |
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The Chairperson shall read each Clause and Schedule separately to the Committee, and shall put upon each Clause and Schedule the question "That this Clause (or Schedule) stand as printed." |
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The words of Enactment at the beginning of a Bill are not to be put to the Committee unless under an Instruction from the Council. |
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Any Amendment may be made to any part of a Bill, provided the same be relevant to the subject matter of the Bill, or pursuant to any Instruction, and be otherwise in conformity with the Standing Orders of the Council; but if any Amendment shall not be within the Title, the Committee shall amend the Title accordingly and report the same specially to the Council. |
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No Amendment shall be made by which the principle of a Bill, as affirmed by its second reading, is reversed. |
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No new Clause or Amendment shall at any time be proposed which is substantially the same as one already negatived by the Committee, or which is inconsistent with one that has been already agreed to by the Committee, unless a recommittal of the Bill shall have intervened. |
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If a Clause or Schedule be amended, a further question shall be put, "That the Clause (or Schedule) stand as amended". |
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Any Clause may be postponed, unless it has already been amended. |
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No question shall be put upon any Clause printed in erased type. |
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Debate shall be confined to the Clause, Schedule, or Amendment immediately before the Committee. |
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When a Bill has been gone through, its Reconsideration, in whole or in part, may be moved for the purpose of making Amendment or further Amendment thereto; but upon such Reconsideration no Amendment, not being a merely consequent Amendment, shall be entertained in respect of words which have been the subject either of a previous Amendment or of a proposed Amendment unless the latter was withdrawn. |
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A Bill shall not be reprinted during its passage through Committee except by order of the Council. |
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When the proceedings upon a Bill have not been concluded at the end of any day’s sitting of the Committee, the Chairperson shall be directed to report progress and ask leave to sit again. |
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When the proceedings upon a Bill have been concluded, the Chairperson shall leave the Chair and report the Bill to the Council, with or without Amendments as the case may be. |
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The Chairperson shall sign a printed copy of every Bill to be reported, with all amendments fairly written thereon; and the Bill so signed shall be handed by the Chairperson to the Clerk when reporting to the Council. |
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The foregoing procedure shall be followed by a Select Committee in considering a Bill, except that a Preamble shall have precedence of the Clauses, and if the allegations contained therein be not found to be true, the Committee, without further considering the Bill, shall so report to the Council. The Committee may also make a Special Report upon the Bill. |
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Upon a Bill being reported from a Committee of the Whole Council, with or without amendment, the adoption of the Report may be immediately moved, or a future time may be fixed for that purpose, and the Bill, if amended, shall be printed as reported. |
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On the Motion for the adoption of the Report, the Bill, either in whole or in part, may, on Motion, be recommitted. |
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In moving for the recommittal of a Bill, for the purpose of adding new Clauses or Schedules, Members must indicate to the Council the number and nature of such Clauses and Schedules. |
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Upon the Report being adopted, the Third Reading shall be made an Order of the Day for a future day. |
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Except where otherwise ordered, every Bill reported from a Select Committee shall, if not recommitted to the same or another Select Committee, or if notice be not given of a Motion for its withdrawal, be forthwith Recommitted to a Committee of the Whole Council for a future day, and the Report of the Committee shall in the meantime be printed. |
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Bills amended by a Select Committee shall, unless otherwise ordered, be reprinted as amended, with every addition or substitution in italic type, and the omissions therefrom included in brackets and underlined. |
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312. |
On the Order of the Day being read for the Third Reading of a Bill, the question shall be proposed "That this Bill be now read a third time"; to which the only Amendment which may be moved shall be, to leave out "now" and to add "this day six months", which Amendment shall be determined in the manner provided at the Second Reading; but the Previous Question may be proposed. |
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Before the question for the Third Reading is put the Bill, either in whole or in part, may, on Motion, be Recommitted, but in the latter event the number and nature of any proposed new Clauses and Schedules must be first indicated; and if the Bill be reported with Amendment or further Amendment, the Report may be adopted and a future day appointed for the Third Reading, and the Bill shall be again printed as amended; but if no such Amendment has been made, the Bill may be read a Third Time without delay. |
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Before any Bill which has been referred to a Committee of the Whole Council shall be read the third time, the Chairperson of Committees shall certify in writing that the fair print is in accordance with the Bill as agreed to in Committee and reported, and the President shall announce that the Chairperson has so certified. |
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So soon as a Bill shall have been read a third time, the President shall, except as provided in Order No. 282, without permitting discussion, amendment, or adjournment, put a question "That this Bill do now pass": Provided that, if the Title does not conform to the contents of the Bill, the same may be first amended. |
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When a Bill originated in the Legislative Council shall have passed, it shall be sent to the House of Assembly with a Message desiring its concurrence thereto. |
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When a Bill originated in the House of Assembly has passed in the Council with or without amendment it shall be returned, with a Message informing that House that the Council has agreed to the same "without amendment", or "with the amendments indicated by the annexed Schedule, to which amendments the Legislative Council desires the concurrence of the House of Assembly". |
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When a Bill originated in the Council shall have passed, the Clerk shall certify it as follows: "This Public Bill originated in the Legislative Council, and having this day passed, is now ready for presentation to the House of Assembly for its concurrence". |
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When a Bill originated in the House of Assembly shall have passed in the Council without amendment, it shall be certified by the Clerk as follows: "This Bill has been agreed to by the Legislative Council without amendment". |
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When a Bill originated in the House of Assembly shall have passed in the Council with amendment, the Clerk shall certify it as follows: "This Bill, with the amendment (or amendments) annexed, has been agreed to by the Legislative Council". |
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Whenever any Bill, by which an alteration in the Constitution of the Legislative Council or House of Assembly is made, shall have passed its Second and Third Readings in the Council with the concurrence of an Absolute Majority of the whole number of the Members, the Clerk shall certify the Bill accordingly. |
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In whatever other way the Council shall subsequently deal with a Bill, the Clerk shall at every stage certify it accordingly. |
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All certificates by the Clerk shall be written on the first page of the Bill. |
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After the First Reading and before the Bill is issued to Members, no alteration shall be allowed to be made in the text thereof, except by permission of the President at the request of the Member having the Bill in charge; and only such alterations shall be so permitted as are necessary for the correction of errors of printing or drafting or for the omission of words included by mistake. |
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No Amendment, not being of a merely verbal or formal nature or such as can be made after the Third Reading, shall be made to any Bill after it has been printed and issued to Members otherwise than by a Select Committee or in a Committee of the whole Council. |
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Amendments of a merely verbal or formal nature may be made, and clerical and typographical errors may be corrected, in any part of a Bill by the President at any time during its progress through the Council. |
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Messages coming from the House of Assembly transmitting or dealing with Amendments shall be considered in Committee of the Whole Council, either forthwith or at such future time as the Council shall appoint. If not considered forthwith, the Message or the Amendments shall be printed as Members may require. |
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No Amendment shall be proposed to an Assembly’s Amendment that is not strictly relevant thereto. |
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No Amendment shall be proposed to any words of a Bill which have been agreed to by both Houses, unless it be strictly relevant to or consequent upon the acceptance, amendment, or rejection of a previous Amendment as hereinafter provided. |
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Whenever the Council agrees to an Amendment made by the House of Assembly, a Message shall be sent informing that House thereof and returning the Bill if the same be an Assembly Bill. |
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Whenever the Council disagrees to an Amendment made by the House of Assembly, the Bill shall be returned with a Message informing that House thereof and desiring the reconsideration of the Bill. The Council shall also assign therewith Reasons for such disagreement. |
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Whenever the Council agrees to an Assembly’s Amendment with amendment, or makes any further Amendment to the Bill, the Bill shall be returned with a Message, transmitting a Schedule of such Amendment, and desiring the concurrence of the House of Assembly thereto. |
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If the Council resolves not to insist on any of its requirements, a Message shall be sent to the House of Assembly informing that House thereof.
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If the Council insists, or does not insist, on its Amendments, a Message shall be sent to the House of Assembly informing that House thereof and returning the Bill. |
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If a Conference be held with the House of Assembly, the Bill shall be brought back by the Managers, and if the Recommendations from the Conference be not adopted by the Council, or if no Recommendation be reported by the Managers, the Council shall either resolve not to further insist on its requirements, or shall order the Bill to be laid aside. If such Recommendations be adopted, or if the Council does not further insist, a Message shall be sent to the House of Assembly accordingly. |
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Every Schedule of Amendments, required to be transmitted to the House of Assembly, shall contain specific reference to the page and line of the Bill where words are to be inserted, added, or left out - or to the Amendment of the House of Assembly which is proposed to be amended - and shall describe each proposed Amendment. The Schedule shall be signed by the Clerk and annexed to the Bill. |
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Whenever Reasons are assigned in case of disagreement, the same shall be drawn up by a Committee of three Members, to be nominated for that purpose when the Council adopts the report of the Committee of the whole Council disagreeing to the Amendments in question; and a Schedule thereof shall be signed by the Clerk and annexed to the Bill. |
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Whenever the Council shall, in an Assembly Bill, desire the amendment of any "Money Clause", as is provided in Part 2 of the Constitution Act 1934, as amended from time to time, or the insertion of any such additional "Money Clause", the foregoing procedure relating to Bills shall be varied in respect of the following particulars, viz:- |
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The Bill shall be returned to the House of Assembly with a Schedule of the Suggested Amendments and the following Message:- The Legislative Council has agreed to the Bill returned herewith titled …… with the Suggested Amendments indicated by the annexed Schedule, which Amendments the Legislative Council requests the House of Assembly to make to the said Bill. |
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Whenever the Governor shall return by Message to the Council any Bill presented to the Governor by the President for the Royal Assent, together with any amendment which the Governor desires to be made thereto, such Amendment shall be treated and considered in the same manner as Amendments made by the House of Assembly to Bills originated in the Council. |
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When the Council shall have agreed to any Amendment recommended by the Governor, with or without amendment, such Amendment, together with any alterations rendered necessary to be made in the Bill in consequence of such Amendment, shall be forwarded by Message to the House of Assembly for its concurrence; and any Amendment made by the House of Assembly thereto shall be dealt with in the same manner as Amendments made by that House to Bills originated in the Council. |
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Amendments recommended by the Governor to Bills originated in the House of Assembly which shall have been agreed to by that House and forwarded for the concurrence of the Council, shall be proceeded with in the same manner as Amendments made by the House of Assembly upon the Council’s Amendments to Bills first received from the Assembly. |
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When any Amendment recommended by the Governor in any Bill originated in the Council has been agreed to by both Houses, with or without Amendment, the Bill shall be fair printed as amended and presented by the President to the Governor for the Royal Assent, having been certified as in manner hereinafter provided; but if such Amendment be disagreed to by the Council, or if no agreement between the two Houses be arrived at thereon, the President shall again present to the Governor for the Royal Assent the Bill in the form as first presented by the President for that purpose. |
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A Bill which has passed its Second Reading in either House, but shall not have been finally disposed of at the close of the Session, may, in the next Session of the same Parliament, be restored to the stage reached in the previous Session by the carrying of a Motion, after Notice, that the Bill be restored to the Notice Paper. |
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For the purposes of the next preceding Order, and until otherwise defined by law, the word "Parliament" shall comprise the period elapsing between a general election for the House of Assembly and the next ensuing dissolution or expiry of that House; and the word "stage" shall mean the commencement of whatever stage such Bill had reached. |
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Every Bill originated in the Council, which shall have been finally agreed to by both Houses, shall be fair printed and presented by the President to the Governor for the Royal Assent. |
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No Bill shall be so presented until certified by the signatures of the President and the Clerk as having originated in the Council and finally passed both Houses. |
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One copy of every Act of the Parliament, bearing the signature of the Governor, shall be delivered to the Clerk, for deposit amongst the records of the Council. |
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A Committee of the Whole Council shall, where not appointed by these Orders, be appointed by a Resolution that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole either "now" or at some future time. |
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Whenever an Order is made for the Council to resolve itself into Committee forthwith, and whenever an Order of the Day is read for a Committee of the Whole Council, the President shall leave the Chair without Question put, and the Council shall thereupon resolve itself into such Committee: Provided that, where Notice of an Instruction has been given, such Instruction may be first disposed of. |
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The President shall, unless it be otherwise ordered, take the Chair of Committees of the Whole Council. |
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A Quorum shall consist of ten Members, including the Chairperson. |
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A Committee shall consider such matters only as shall have been referred to it by the Council. |
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Except as provided by the Orders contained in this chapter, the same rules for regulating debate, divisions, order, and general procedure shall be observed in Committee as in the Council itself. |
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Order shall be maintained in Committee by the Chairperson; but disorder therein can only be censured or punished by the Council, and on receiving a Report from the Chairperson. |
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If any grave disorder arises, the Chairperson shall leave the Chair and the Council having resumed, make Report to the President. |
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When a Member, having used objectionable words, refuses either to explain them to the satisfaction of the Chairperson or to withdraw them, and whenever objectionable words have been taken down, the Chairperson shall forthwith report the occurrence to the President in the Chair. |
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If any objection be taken to a Ruling or decision of the Chairperson, such objection shall be taken at once and not otherwise; and, having been stated in writing, the Chairperson shall leave the Chair and the Council shall resume, and the matter be laid before the President. |
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The Chairperson shall have a Casting Voice only, and any reason for the vote stated by the Chairperson shall be entered in the Minutes. |
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Any Question of Personal Interest as affecting a Member’s vote, arising in the Committee, shall be determined by the Committee. |
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A Motion made in Committee need not be seconded. |
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A Motion contradictory of, or inconsistent with, a previous decision of the Committee shall not be entertained unless a recommittal shall have intervened. |
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No Motion for the Previous Question can be made in Committee. |
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Members may speak more than once to the same question, and debate shall be confined to the Motion or Amendment immediately before the Committee. |
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When the Chairperson shall have directed a Member who persists in continued irrelevance, prolixity, or tedious repetition to discontinue speaking, the Member named shall not be again heard during the discussion of the question then before the Chair. |
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If notice be taken that a Quorum of Members is not present, the bells shall be rung as for a Division, and, if a Quorum be not made up before the expiration of two minutes, the Chairperson shall leave the Chair, and report to the President accordingly. |
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If it appears from a Division that a Quorum is not present, the Chairperson shall leave the Chair and report to the President accordingly, and no decision shall be considered to have been arrived at by such Division. |
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When the consideration of all matters referred to a Committee has been concluded, the Chairperson shall leave the Chair and report the Resolutions of the Committee to the Council; and when the consideration of such matters has not been concluded, the Chairperson shall be directed to report progress and ask leave to sit again. |
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A Motion "That the Chairperson do now leave the Chair" will, if carried, supersede the proceedings of a Committee, but the Committee may, on Motion after Notice or as provided in Order No. 68, be revived for a future day. |
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The Chairperson shall leave the Chair without Question put - |
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If the proceedings of a Committee be interrupted by a Count-out followed by an adjournment of the Council, the Council may order the resumption of such Committee on a future day, on Motion after Notice or as provided in Order No. 68 and the proceedings shall then be resumed at the point where they were so interrupted. |
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Every Report from a Committee of the Whole shall be brought up and received by the Council, without Question put. |
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The Resolutions so reported may then be agreed to or disagreed to; or agreed to with amendments, or recommitted; or the further consideration thereof may be postponed. |
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Every Select Committee shall, unless it be otherwise ordered, consist of five Members to be nominated by the mover; but if any one Member so demands, they shall be elected by ballot. |
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The President shall be ex officio a Member and Chairperson of the Library and Standing Orders Committees, and a Member (and alternating Chairperson) of the Joint Parliamentary Service Committee, but shall not be liable to be elected to any other. |
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No Member shall sit on a Committee who has a direct pecuniary interest in the inquiry before such Committee, not held in common with the rest of the subjects of the Crown and any question of interest arising in Committee may be determined by the Committee. |
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Members may be discharged from attending a Committee and other Members substituted on Motion after Notice. |
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Any Notice of Motion for discharging, substituting, or adding Members shall contain the names of the Members proposed to be discharged; but the Members to be added or substituted shall be elected by ballot. |
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On the appointment of every Committee, a day shall be fixed for the reporting of their proceedings to the Council. |
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Leave may be granted to a Committee, on the application of the Chairperson, on Motion without Notice, to report, from time to time, its opinions or observations, or the Minutes of Evidence only, or its Proceedings. |
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Whenever it may be necessary, the Council may give a Committee power to send for persons, papers, and records, and to adjourn from place to place. |
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The mover for the Committee, if a Member thereof, shall fix the time for its first meeting: otherwise the Clerk shall summon the Members for some convenient time. |
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In Committees consisting of five Members, three shall, unless otherwise ordered, form a Quorum, and in other cases the Quorum shall be appointed by the Council when the Order for the Committee is made. |
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The Committee, prior to the commencement of business, shall, except where otherwise ordered, elect one of its Members to be Chairperson. |
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In the absence of the Chairperson, the Committee shall appoint another of its Members to act for the time being. |
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The Chairperson shall have a casting voice only. |
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If after the lapse of ten minutes from the time appointed for the meeting of a Committee, there shall not be a Quorum, the Members present may retire after entering their names on the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee; and the Clerk shall convene the next meeting. |
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A Committee may adjourn from time to time, and may sit on those days over which the Council is adjourned; but may not sit during the sitting of the Council without permission of the Council. |
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All Committees sitting at the time the President is about to take the Chair shall be informed by Black Rod that the President is about to take the Chair; and all proceedings after such notice shall be null and void. |
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The names of the Members attending each meeting shall be entered in the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee, as also every Motion or Amendment proposed in the Committee, together with the name of the Mover thereof; and if any Division take place, the Chairperson shall take down the names of the Members voting in any such Division, distinguishing on which side of the question they respectively vote. |
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The doors of the room are deemed to be locked while a division is being taken, and every Member of the Committee who was present when the question was put is required to vote. |
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The examination of witnesses shall be conducted as follows, viz.:- The Chairperson shall first put to the Witness, in an uninterrupted series, all such questions as the Chairperson may deem essential, with reference either to the subject referred to the Committee or to any branch of that subject, according to the mode of procedure agreed on by the Committee. The Chairperson shall then call on the other Members severally, in the order of their sitting, to put any other questions they may think fit; and the name of every Member so interrogating a Witness shall be noted and prefixed to the questions asked; and all such questions and the replies thereto, together with the name of the questioner prefixed, shall be duly noted by the reporter, unless the Committee otherwise directs, and shall form the Minutes of Evidence of the Committee. |
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When a Committee is examining Witnesses, Strangers may be admitted, but they shall be excluded at the request of any Member or at the discretion of the Chairperson, and shall always be excluded when the Committee is deliberating. |
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No matters shall be considered which are not within the Order of Reference. |
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The Evidence taken by any Committee and Documents presented to such Committee, which have not been reported to the Council, shall not be disclosed or published by any Member of such Committee or by any other person, without the permission of the Council. |
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If any information come before a Committee that charges any Member of the Council, the Committee shall only direct that the Council be acquainted with the matter of such information, without proceeding further thereupon. |
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Any documents laid before a Committee shall be endorsed by the Chairperson, and shall remain in the custody of the Clerk of the Council, unless released by Order of the Council or President. |
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It shall be the duty of the Chairperson to prepare a draft Report; which shall be printed and circulated amongst the Members of the Committee. |
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The Chairperson shall read to the Committee, which shall be convened for the purpose of considering the Report, the whole of the draft Report; which may be at once considered; but, if any Member so desires, a subsequent day shall be fixed for its consideration. |
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At the time of considering the Report, the Chairperson shall read the draft Report paragraph by paragraph, putting the question to the Committee at the end of each paragraph - "That this paragraph stand part of the Report". |
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If any Member, other than the Chairperson, submits a draft Report to the Committee, the Committee shall first decide upon which Report they will proceed. |
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Any amendment to be made by a Member objecting to any portion of the Report shall be proposed by the Member at the time the paragraph to be amended is under consideration, but any Protest or Dissent may be added to the Report. |
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After a draft Report has been considered, the whole or any paragraph thereof may be reconsidered and amended. |
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The Report when agreed to shall be signed by the Chairperson. |
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The final Report of the Committee shall be brought up on the appointed day unless further time be moved for and granted; but the Council will at any time prior to such day, when there is no other business before the Council, receive the Report. |
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The Report shall be brought up and presented to the Council by the Chairperson, and shall lie upon the Table. |
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Upon the presentation of a Report, no discussion thereon shall take place; but the Report may be read at the request of any Member, and may be ordered to be printed with the documents accompanying it. |
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If any measure or proceeding be necessary upon a Report of a Select Committee, not being a Committee on a Bill, such measure or proceeding shall be brought under the consideration of the Council by Motion after Notice, which Notice may be given at the time of the presentation of the Report. |
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A Committee is closed by the bringing up of the Report, not being a progress or interim Report, but may be revived on Motion after Notice. |
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Every Committee shall, until otherwise ordered, have power to award reasonable payment to any professional or other Witnesses, or to any person whom they may deem it necessary to employ in furtherance of the inquiry with which the Committee is charged; and the Chairperson’s certificate on the face of an account shall be sufficient authority for its payment by the Clerk of the Council. |
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On the first day of every Session, until it be otherwise ordered, the Council shall proceed to appoint the following Committees, viz:- |
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The Members of the said Committees, who are not such ex officio, shall be nominated by the Mover, but, if any one Member so demand, they shall be elected by ballot. |
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Such Committees shall have power to act during the Recess, and, when necessary, to confer, or sit as Joint Committees, with similar Committees of the House of Assembly; and may report to the Council from time to time. |
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The Quorum of such Committees shall, unless otherwise ordered, be three Members. |
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All Petitions and Papers laid on the Table of the Council which are not already printed by the Government Printer, or the printing of which is not thereupon moved by a Minister of the Crown, shall stand referred to the Printing Committee, and it shall be the duty of such Committee to report from time to time which of the Petitions and Papers referred to them ought, in their opinion, to be printed, and whether in full or in abstract; and it shall be in the power of the Committee to order such Petitions or Papers, or abstracts thereof, to be prepared for press by the Clerk in attendance upon such Committees. |
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On the Report of the Printing Committee being received, it shall be in order to move that it be adopted, but the details of any individual Paper shall not be open to discussion on such motion. A Member desiring that any Petition or Paper should be printed, which the Committee has not recommended for printing, may give Notice when the Report has been dealt with, or subsequently, of the Member’s intention to move therein. |
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Lists of Select Committees shall be affixed to some conspicuous place in the lobby. |
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Notice shall be required of an Instruction and of every material amendment thereto. |
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An Instruction empowers the Committee to consider matters which are relevant, and not contradictory, to the Order of Reference, but which had not been expressly referred; and to make Amendments to Bills which are relevant to the Title. |
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No Instruction shall be given to such Committee of a mandatory nature, nor to do that which the Committee is already empowered to do. |
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An Instruction may be given to divide a Bill into two or more Bills, or, where two or more Bills are referred to the same Committee, to consolidate them into one. |
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The rejection of an Instruction to a Committee on a Bill shall not prevent the introduction during the same Session of a separate Bill dealing with the object of such Instruction; but will prevent any Amendment being proposed in Committee on the Bill which would contravene the decision of the Council on such Instruction. |
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The time for moving an Instruction to a Committee of the Whole is whenever the Council is about to resolve itself into the Committee in question, before the President leaves the Chair. |
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An Instruction to a Select Committee directs the order and course of the proceedings thereof, and extends or restricts the Order of Reference, in terms mandatory or otherwise. |
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An Instruction to a Select Committee may be moved either at the time of the appointment of the Committee or subsequently. |
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Witnesses, not being Members, when ordered to attend before the Council or a Committee of the Whole at the Bar, shall be summoned under the hand of the President, and, if desired by a Select Committee, by summons under the hand of the Clerk. |
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When the attendance of a Member of the Council is desired to be examined by the Council or a Committee of the Whole, the Member shall be ordered to attend in the Member’s place, and the Order of the Council shall be communicated to the Member by the President. |
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If any Select Committee desires the attendance of a Member as a Witness, the Chairperson shall, in writing, request the Member to attend; but should the Member refuse, the Committee shall take no further action, except to report the matter to the Council. |
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The neglect or refusal of any Witness to attend in obedience to any such order or summons, or in obedience to a warrant of the President, shall be censured, or otherwise dealt with at the pleasure of the Council. |
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When the attendance of a Member of the House of Assembly, or of any Officer of that House, is desired in order to be examined by the Council or any Committee thereof (not being a Committee on a Private Bill), a Message shall be sent to the House of Assembly to request that the House will give leave to such Member or Officer to attend, in order for the Member or Officer to be examined accordingly upon the matters stated in such Message. |
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Should the House of Assembly request by Message the attendance of a Member of the Council before that House or a Select Committee thereof, the Council may authorise such Member to attend if the Member thinks fit. The Council, if similarly requested by the House of Assembly, may also instruct its own Officers to attend as desired. |
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When a Witness, whose attendance is desired, shall be in the custody of the keeper of any prison, such keeper shall be ordered to bring the Witness in safe custody, in order to the witness being examined, and from time to time, as often as the witness’s attendance shall be thought necessary, and the President shall issue a warrant accordingly. |
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Witnesses cannot be examined upon Oath by the Council, or any Committee thereof, unless it be so provided by law. |
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All Witnesses examined before the Council, or any Committee thereof, are entitled to the protection of the Council in respect of anything that may be said by them in their evidence. |
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When a Witness is being examined by the Council, or a Committee of the Whole, the Bar is drawn. |
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When a Witness appears before the Council, the President shall examine the Witness, and any questions addressed by Members shall be asked through the President. |
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In Committee of the Whole Council, any Member may put questions directly to the Witness. |
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If any question be objected to, or other matter arise, the Witness shall withdraw while the same is under discussion. |
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A Member of the Council shall be examined in the Member’s place. |
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Judges are introduced by Black Rod and have chairs placed for them within the Bar. |
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No Member, Clerk or Officer of the Council, or Hansard reporter employed to take Minutes of Evidence before the Council or any Committee thereof, may give evidence elsewhere in respect of any proceedings of the Council or its Committee, or of any examination had at the Bar or before any Committee, without the special permission of the Council. |
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The President alone shall have the privilege of admitting Strangers, not being Members of the House of Assembly or of the Commonwealth Parliament, to the body of the Council Chamber, either within or without the Bar, while the Council or a Committee of the Whole is sitting. |
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Members of the House of Assembly and of the Commonwealth Parliament shall have the privilege of admission, without order, to the body of the Council Chamber without the Bar. |
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If at any sitting of the Council, or in Committee, any Member shall take notice that Strangers are present, the President, or the Chairperson (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question "That Strangers be ordered to withdraw" without permitting any discussion or amendment: Provided that the President, or the Chairperson, may, whenever the President or Chairperson thinks fit, order the withdrawal of Strangers from any or every part of the Chamber. |
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Papers and Returns may be ordered to be laid before the Council, and the Clerk shall communicate all such orders of the Council. |
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When any Paper is required by the Council which concerns the Royal Prerogative, or which is a Despatch or other Correspondence addressed to or emanating from the Governor, or when any information is desired from the Governor, an Address shall be presented to the Governor praying that the same may be laid before the Council. |
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Papers presented pursuant to Statute, or by Command of the Governor, or pursuant to an Order of the Council, may be laid on the Table without comment, at any time when other business is not before the Council. |
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On any Paper being laid before the Council, the printing thereof may be moved by a Minister of the Crown, and it shall be in order to move that it be read; and if necessary, a day may be appointed for its consideration. |
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A Document quoted from in debate, if not of a confidential nature or such as should more properly be obtained by Address, may be called for at any time during the debate, and on Motion thereupon without Notice may be ordered to be laid upon the Table. |
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All Papers and Documents laid upon the Table of the Council shall be considered public. Papers not ordered to be printed may be inspected at the offices of the Council at any time by Members, and, unless otherwise ordered by the President, by other persons, and copies thereof or extracts therefrom may be made. |
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All Papers and other Documents ordered by the Council during the Session and not returned prior to the Prorogation, and such other official reports and returns as are customarily laid before Parliament and printed, shall be forwarded to the President in print as soon as completed; and, if the same are received within two months after such Prorogation, the Clerk shall cause such Papers and Documents to be distributed among Members and bound with the Minutes of the Proceedings; and as regards those not received within such time, they shall be laid upon the Table on the first day of the following Session, together with a Return prepared by the Clerk showing the Resolutions of the Council which have or have not been complied with. If any Orders for Returns made in the previous Session have not been complied with, a return of such Orders shall be prepared by the Clerk and laid on the Table on the same day. |
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Members of the House of Assembly shall be furnished with copies of all Papers printed by Order of the Council. |
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Any Standing or Sessional Order (except those which it is specially provided shall not be suspended) may be suspended on Motion after Notice. |
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In the case of urgent necessity, any Standing or Sessional Order (except those which it is specially provided shall not be suspended) may be suspended on Motion without Notice: Provided that such Motion has the concurrence of an absolute majority of the whole number of Members of the Council. |
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The debate on a Motion for the Suspension of Standing Orders shall be limited to fifteen minutes and the Mover and subsequent speakers in the debate shall each be limited to five minutes in stating reasons for such suspension. |
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Such Suspension shall be limited in its operation to the particular purpose for which it has been sought and, unless it be otherwise ordered, to that day’s sitting of the Council. |
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After the Orders of the Day have been called on, no Motion for Suspension, without Notice, shall be entertained until the consideration of such Orders is concluded, except it be for the purpose of expediting the progress of a Bill or otherwise facilitating the business of the Council. |
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The whole of these Standing Orders shall continue in force until altered, amended, or repealed, by the Council with the approval of the Governor. |
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Whenever either House desires the appointment of a Joint Committee, it shall inform the other House by Message of the object of such Committee; and of the number of Members and of the Quorum which it has appointed to serve thereon; and shall desire the concurrence of that House thereto. |
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The Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers, and records, and shall report to the House with all due dispatch. |
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The Chairperson of the Committee shall be entitled to vote upon every question, but when the votes are equal, the question shall pass in the negative. |
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Instructions to Joint Committees must have the concurrence of both Houses. |
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The Report of the Committee shall be presented to each House in writing by Members nominated by the Committee for that purpose. |
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The procedure of every Joint Committee shall, except where herein otherwise ordered, be regulated by the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council relating to Select Committees. |
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Whenever either House desires that a Joint Address should be presented from both Houses, and a form of Address shall have been agreed to (a blank being left for the title of the other House), a Message shall be sent to the other House, transmitting the Address, and desiring its concurrence thereto. |
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The Address, when finally agreed upon by both Houses, shall be signed by the President of the Legislative Council and by the Speaker of the House of Assembly. |
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The Public Acts passed by the Legislature in each year shall be numbered in Arabic figures and in regular arithmetical series, commencing from the number one in each year, in the order in which the Governor shall have assented, or shall have signified the Sovereign’s Assent thereto. All such Acts assented to by the Governor shall have the date of such Assent and the number of the year printed within a parenthesis immediately following the title, and, in cases where the Bills for such Acts have been reserved, shall bear both the date of such reservation and of the proclamation of the Royal Assent. |
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All Joint Sittings of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly held, pursuant to section 15 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, for the election of a Senator, shall be summoned by the President of the Legislative Council, or, in the President’s absence, by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, by not less than seven days’ notice to the Members of the Council and of the House of Assembly, and shall be presided over by the said President, or, in the President’s absence, by the Speaker, or, in the absence of both President and Speaker, by some other Member chosen by the Members of both Houses present to preside. The procedure of such Joint Sittings shall be that of the Legislative Council so far as applicable to the circumstances. |
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If a Prorogation of Parliament takes place before the Governor shall have notified, to Parliament or by Proclamation, the Governor’s assent to, or reservation of, any Bill which has been agreed to by both Houses during the Session then closed, such Bill having thereby lapsed, may, on being introduced in the next Session of the same Parliament in the originating House, be passed through all its stages in both Houses without delay. |
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Questions of Privilege, not arising between Houses, to be referred to, if Minister so claims or Council so resolves, 202 |
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COMMITTEES, JOINT, 416; J.S.O’s. Nos. 1-9, 18 |
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COMMITTEES OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - Attendance of Member or Officer of Legislative Council requested by Message, 434 |
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Instructions to, 427-428 |
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Consolidation, J.S.O. 18 |
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Time for, 11, 414 |
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Printing Committee - |
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Reports on all Petitions and Papers not printed or so ordered, 418 |
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COMMONS, HOUSE OF - Observance of rules of, where not otherwise provided, 1 |
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COMMUNICATION WITH THE GOVERNOR - Right of free, claimed, 23 |
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COMMUNICATION WITH THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - Shall be by Message, Conference of Committee conferring, 247 |
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COMPLICATED QUESTIONS - May be divided by President, 125. |
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CONCURRENCE OR NON-CONCURRENCE OF PRESIDENT - May be indicated on second and third readings of Bills, 231 |
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CONCURRENCE OF ASSEMBLY - Council Bills and amendments sent to House of Assembly with Message desiring, 316, 317, 332 |
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CONDUCT OF MEMBERS IN CHAMBER - Orders regulating, 161-165; and in Debate, 166-207 |
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Orders regulating, 263-266 |
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All Conferences to be free, 260 |
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duties of, 258, 260, 341 |
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Object to be stated, 252 |
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Managers’ duties at, 260, 261, 338, 341 |
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One only permitted on any one matter, 262 |
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CONSOLIDATION OF TWO OR MORE BILLS, 275, 424 |
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Assembly Bill to be certified by Clerk of Assembly as to absolute majority, 279 |
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CONVERSING ALOUD - Not permitted during debate, 181 |
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Bills affecting interests of one or more Municipalities, 268 |
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Call of, 37-43 |
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absence and attendance, 32-36 |
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Powers not restricted by Standing Orders, 2 |
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at half past six o’clock, 60 |
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Votes of not to be reflected upon, 192 |
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COUNT OUT - See QUORUM |
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COUNTING OF COUNCIL, 54, 282 |
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COURT OF DISPUTED RETURNS - See Electoral Act s.103 |
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COURTS OF LAW - See EVIDENCE AND REFLECTIONS, INJURIOUS |
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CROWN, MINISTER OF THE - See MINISTER OF THE CROWN |
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CROWN OR WASTE LANDS - Bills granting, to persons or bodies, 268 |
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CROWN SOLICITOR - Certificate of J.S.O. 29 |
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Persons may only be discharged from, by Order, payment of fine, or Prorogation, 217 |
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CUSTODY OF DOCUMENTS - See DOCUMENTS
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Rules, forms and practice of House of Commons adopted in cases not otherwise provided for, 1 |
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Member speaking to Question not to move, but by leave may conclude speech at future time, 197 |
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if carried, preaudience for Member moving, 198 |
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On Question of Order or Privilege not entitled to precedence, 201 |
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Debate confined to question immediately before Chair, 299, 366 |
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Interrupted Debate - How resumed, 71, 76, 77, 128 |
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Limit to Debate - On Suspension of Standing Orders, 458 |
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See also fixing day for an adjourned Debate, 196 |
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No Debate on certain matters - |
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Adjournment of Council, 59 |
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First Reading of, 283 |
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Closure, 127 |
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closure, 371 |
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Personal explanation, 173 |
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Printing Paper (at time of presentation) except Ministerial Statement, 180 |
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See also On presentation of Petitions, Reports and Papers, 95; 310, 410; 419; 450 |
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Debate allowed on Ministerial Statement, 180 |
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in debate, when misquoted or misunderstood, 175 |
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Indulgence to infirm Members, 168 |
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not to speak after Question completely put, 183 |
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Members - two or more rising - President to name one, 169 |
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See also CONDUCT OF MEMBERS, 161-165. ORDER AND PRIVILEGE, 199-207 |
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Subject Matter of Speech - |
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Committee speeches not to be referred to, 187 |
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quotation from debates of, in current Session, 188 |
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Personal Explanation - references permitted, 187 |
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on Government, Commonwealth, Members, Judges, Courts, 193 |
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in Assembly permitted to be quoted if relevant, 188 |
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Sovereign’s name not to be used irreverently or to influence debate, 191 |
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DEFINITIONS - |
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Bills, Hybrid, 268 |
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DEPUTATION OF MEMBERS - for Presentation of Addresses to Governor - |
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Addresses generally, 239, 241 |
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DEPUTY CLERK - Acts as Clerk in case of absence or illness of latter, 27 |
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DEPUTY PRESIDENT - |
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Appointment of, 24, 25 |
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DESPATCHES - Address for production of, 449 |
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Adjournment of Council, 59 |
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DISCHARGED - |
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Orders of the Day and Orders of the Council may be read and be, 68, 155, 156, 160 |
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DISORDER - |
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Arrests to be reported without delay and time fixed for further proceedings, 217 |
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in cases of grave disorder Chairperson leaves Chair and reports, 358 |
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Member wilfully disobeying Order of Council, 215 |
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DISSENTS - May be added to Select Committee Reports, 405 |
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DISSENTIENT VOICE - "Leave of Council" must be without, 3 |
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See also UNANIMOUS |
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DISTRICT COUNCILS - Bill affecting interests of, 268 |
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DISTURBANCE - In debate not allowed, 181 |
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DIVISIONS, 219-232 - |
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All present qualified to vote must vote, 224 |
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Chairperson has casting voice only, 361 |
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In Select Committees - |
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Chairperson - |
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to have casting voice only, 389 |
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See also JOINT COMMITTEES, J.S.O. 6 |
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DOCUMENTS - |
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After Session, 454 |
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DOORS - Locked during Divisions, 222, 394 |
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DURATION - |
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of Standing Orders, 461 |
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DUTY - See Tax, etc., 277
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ELECTION OF - |
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Chairperson of Select Committees, 387, 388 |
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Select, 377 |
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Managers at Conferences, 253 |
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See also BALLOT; COMMITTEES, SELECT. |
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ENACTING WORDS - Of Bills, not put to Committee except under Instruction, 292 |
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE - All Petitions to be in, or accompanied by English translation, 82 |
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EQUALITY OF VOICES AND VOTES - See VOICES: TIE |
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ERASED TYPE - |
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Used for - |
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amendments to Consolidation Bills, J.S.O. 18 |
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ERRORS - |
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In Bills - |
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clerical and typographical may be corrected by President at any time, 326 |
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EVIDENCE - |
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Clerk, officer or reporter forbidden to give, without leave of Council, 444 |
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EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES - See WITNESSES. |
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EX OFFICIO MEMBER AND CHAIRPERSON - President to be, of Standing Orders and Library Committees, 378, 414 |
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EXPLANATIONS - |
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Charge may be explained, 214 |
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EXPUNGEMENT - Of unbecoming Notices, 104 |
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EXTRACTS - Referring to debates of same Session, excepting Hansard, not to be read, 189
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FAIR PRINT - |
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Bills - |
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after agreement to Governor’s Amendment, 345 |
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FIFTEEN MINUTES RULE - |
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Adjournment of Council, 59 |
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in Committee, 371 |
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That the Chairperson do now leave the Chair, 371 |
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FINED - Member or other person arrested may be fined, 217 |
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FORMAL BUSINESS - |
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Only formal or unopposed business may be entertained prior to adoption of Address in Reply, 14 |
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FREE CONFERENCES, 260, 265 |
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GALLERY - |
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Disorder in, 216 |
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if Member shall take notice, President or Chairperson shall forthwith put question "That Strangers be ordered to withdraw", 447 |
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GANGWAYS AND PASSAGES of Chamber to be kept clear, 165 |
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GIVING OF NOTICES - See NOTICE |
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GOVERNMENT BUSINESS - |
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Government Business of the Day postponed to Private Business on Wednesdays, 70 |
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arranges as thinks fit, 65 |
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Precedence of, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 64 |
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GOVERNMENT PRINTER - |
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Papers printed by, 418 |
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GOVERNOR, THE - |
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Access to, claimed by President, 23 |
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announced by Black Rod, 6 |
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Joint Addresses, J.S.O’s. Nos. 10-13 |
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amendments in Bills, 342-345 |
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Speech of - |
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Address in Reply to - |
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Committee to prepare, 12 |
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laid on Table by President, 12 |
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Summonses House of Assembly at Opening, 8 |
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GRANT OF MONEY - No petition to be received for, 97 |
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HALF-PAST SIX O’CLOCK RULE, 60 |
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HANSARD - |
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Assembly debates, 188 |
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HANSARD REPORTER - |
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Not to disclose evidence, 398 |
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HOLIDAY, PUBLIC - Provision if Council is adjourned to, through want of Quorum, 57 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS - Practice of, used as guide, 1 |
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Attendance of Council Members and Officers before Committee of, 434 |
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Appropriating Revenue, etc., 277 |
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Comment on measure pending in, 188 |
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HYBRID BILLS - Definition and Procedure, 268; J.S.O. on Private Bills No. 2 |
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT - |
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Address to either House of the, 235, 238 |
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IMPOST - Bills for appropriating any, to be specially certified, 277 |
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IMPUTATION OR INFERENCE - Not to be made in putting Questions to Members, 109 |
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INDULGENCE - |
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To Members unable to stand, 168 |
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INJURIOUS REFLECTIONS not permitted, except on substantive Motion after Notice and on specific charge, 193 |
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INSTRUCTIONS - |
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Members moving motion for, not to have reply, 176 |
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to Committee of the Whole, 288, 352, 426 (see also 292) |
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to Select Committee, 428 |
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to Committees of the Whole - |
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as to amendments in Bills, must be relevant to Title, 422 |
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to Joint Committees - |
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Consolidation Bills - special, J.S.O. 18 |
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scope and terms of, 427 |
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INTEREST, PERSONAL OR PECUNIARY - |
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Definition, 225 |
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INTERJECTIONS out of Order, if repeated, 181 |
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INTERRUPTED BUSINESS - |
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Resumption of - when caused - |
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by adjournment of Council, 77 |
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INTERRUPTION - |
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Members to be heard without, 182, 127, 175, 184, 195; exceptions, 182 |
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call attention to Point of Order or Privilege, 182, 200 |
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President to be heard without, 161 |
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IRREGULAR TIME - Motion (covering debate on urgent matter) to adjourn to, 116 |
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IRREGULARITIES - |
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In Bills, 276 |
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IRRELEVANCE IN DEBATE - |
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In Committee, 367 |
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ITALICS used for - |
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Joint Committees, J.S.O. 18 |
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JOINT ADDRESSES - Orders regulating, J.S.O’s. Nos. 10-13 |
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JOINT COMMITTEES - |
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Appointment, number of Members and Quorum, J.S.O’s. Nos. 1-3 |
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JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONSOLIDATION BILLS, J.S.O. 18 |
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JOINT SITTINGS OF BOTH HOUSES when electing Senators, J.S.O. 16 |
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How introduced as Witnesses, 443 |
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Bill passed by both Houses lapses if assent or reservation not notified or proclaimed before Prorogation but may be revived next Session of same Parliament and expedited, J.S.O. 17 |
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LAPSED QUESTIONS - Questions not asked or answered, lapse, 112 |
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How revived, 68, 73 |
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Bills for Consolidation of, J.S.O. 18 |
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Definition, 3 |
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to conclude Speech, 197 |
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LEAVE TO SELECT COMMITTEES - |
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LEAVE TO ATTEND AS WITNESS - |
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To Member, Officer, Hansard Reporter, in Courts of Law, 444 |
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Motion for - must specify title, 269 |
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Call of, 37-43 |
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absence and attendance, 32-36 |
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Powers not restricted by Standing Orders, 2 |
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at half past six o’clock, 60 |
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Votes of not to be reflected on, 192 |
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Injurious reflections on not allowed, 193 |
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Appointment - |
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Chairperson, 378 |
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May sit as Joint Committee, 416 |
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LISTS OF MEMBERS - (See also Constitution Act, section 15) |
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Addresses to be kept, 39 |
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LOANS - Clause in Council Bill dealing with raising, guaranteeing or repaying of, to be printed in erased type, 278 |
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LOBBY - List of all Committees to be posted in, 420 |
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LOCAL BODIES - Bill affecting interests of one or more, 268 |
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Constitution Bills, 282 (Certificates 279, 321) |
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MAJORITY OF VOICES - Questions determined by, 129 |
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Duties, 260; Money Bills, 341 |
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to be nominated unless ballot required, 253 |
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When Council receives Managers for House of Assembly, 258 |
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instructed as to duties, 258, 260, 341 |
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MARGINAL NOTES - Read in passing clauses of Bill in Committee, 291 |
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MATTERS OF INTEREST, STATEMENTS OF, 67b |
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At Opening of Parliament, pursuant to Proclamation, 5 |
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MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - |
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Admitted to Chamber without the Bar, 446 |
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Absence and Attendance - |
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Notice of Motion called on - another may move at request of absent Member, by leave, 115 |
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Arrest of, 217 |
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not to pass between President and Member speaking, 164 |
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and make obeisance to Chair when entering or leaving Chamber, 163 |
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In Debate - Rules relating to, 166-207 |
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before Select Committee of Council, 431 |
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may be communicated by Minister from Minister’s place, 246 |
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received by a Clerk-Assistant at the Bar, 250 |
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Appropriation Bills, 277 |
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may be moved for, without Notice, 248 |
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adoption of Conference recommendations, 338 |
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returning Assembly Bills passed, 317 |
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amendments, 339-340; and suggested amendments, 341 |
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Announced by Black Rod, 242 |
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Adjournment of Council - Not bound by fifteen minutes’ rule, 59 |
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may arrange Government Business as Minister thinks fit, 65 |
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Message from Governor - May communicate from Minister’s place, 246 |
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may be put to, at time of giving Notices, 107 |
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Questions of Privilege - Referred to Committee of Privilege if Minister so claims (or if Council so resolves), 202 |
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Debate allowed on, when Minister moves to print Paper for purpose of making Ministerial statement, 180: but not allowed otherwise. |
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MINORITY OF VOICES - One of the, may call for a Division, 129, and having so called, must vote in accordance with own voice, 220 |
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MINUTES OF EVIDENCE of Select Committees, 395 |
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS - |
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After Session Papers to be bound with, 454 |
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to be recorded in, 232 |
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Motion not seconded not to appear on, 119 |
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Division Lists, 229, 230 |
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MOTIONS - |
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Amendment of, 130-143 |
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adjournment of Council, 59 |
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Formal - matter of urgent public importance, 116, 117 |
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Exceptions, e.g., 59-61, 68, 78, 116, 118, 205, 210, 225, 248, 283, 307, 313, 383, 451, 452, 457 |
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Notices of Motion, 98-106 |
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not seconded, 363 |
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MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS - |
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Bill affecting interests of one or more Municipalities, 268 |
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NAME OF SOVEREIGN OR GOVERNOR - Not to be used irreverently or to influence debate, 191 |
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NAMES OF MEMBERS |
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Called by President to speak, 169: if fails to speak, 172 |
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by tellers in Division, 227, and entered in Minutes, 232 |
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Roll, 28 |
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NEW MEMBERS - |
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Admitted within Bar and sworn, 9 |
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NEWSPAPERS - |
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Complaints against, as breach of Privilege, 203 |
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NOMINATION OF COMMITTEES - |
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Address in Reply, 12 |
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NOTES - |
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Marginal, read by Chairperson, when reading clauses of Bills, 291 |
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NOTICE - |
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Absent Members - Notice given on behalf of, 100, 113, 115 |
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Council may expunge, 104 |
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For discharging of or adding Members to Select Committees, 380, 381 |
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consideration of Select Committee Report, 411 |
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Seven days’ Notice required for rescinding Resolutions, 159, but one day for correction of irregularities or mistakes, 159 |
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NOTICE PAPER - |
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Appended to Minutes, 62 |
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NOTICES OF MOTION - |
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Amendment of, 102 |
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NOTICES OF QUESTION, 98-104, 106 |
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Alteration of, 102 |
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NULL AND VOID - |
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Proceedings of Council declared, 160 |
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NUMBERING OF ACTS, J.S.O. 14 |
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OATH - |
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Administered to new Members, 9 |
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OBEISANCE TO CHAIR - Members to make, on entering or leaving Chamber, 163 |
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OBJECTION - |
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To Ruling of Chairperson to be taken at once and be stated in writing, 360 |
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OBJECTIONABLE OR OFFENSIVE WORDS - |
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If taken down, Member refusing to explain or withdraw and apologise named by President, 208 |
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OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL - |
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Attendance as witnesses before House of Assembly, 434 |
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See also BLACK ROD, CLERK, DEPUTY CLERK, CLERK-ASSISTANT |
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OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - Attendance as Witnesses, 433 |
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See also CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY |
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OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, 5-15 |
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OPENING SPEECH OF GOVERNOR, 12, 13, 14 |
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OPENING SPEECH OF SOVEREIGN, 15 |
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ORDER - |
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During Division - |
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no objection may be taken to President’s Ruling, 206 |
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Member may rise at any time to speak on, 200; exception: division, 200 |
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by President, 199 |
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ORDER IN BUSINESS - Orders regulating, 67-78 |
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Business not called on, 74 |
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disposed of without interruption except on Wednesdays, 70 |
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Ordinary routine of Business, 67 |
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ORDER OF LEAVE - |
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New Bill presented under, in lieu of one withdrawn, 276 |
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ORDER OF REFERENCE - |
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Committees confined to - |
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Committee of the Whole, 355 |
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Extended and restricted by Instruction in case of Select Committees, 427 |
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ORDERS FOR RETURNS - |
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Clerk to prepare return re compliance with, 454 |
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ORDERS OF THE COUNCIL - |
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Definition, 158 |
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ORDERS OF THE DAY - |
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Absence of Member in charge - how dealt with, 156 |
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place on, 64 |
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Postponed, discharged or revived at commencement of Business, 68 |
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PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS - |
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Addresses for, 449 |
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on Motion of Member on Notice, 419 |
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Production of, in evidence, 31 |
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custody of, 400 |
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Tabling of, 67 |
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PARLIAMENT - |
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Commonwealth - |
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Members admitted without the Bar, 446 |
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Definition of, in respect of lapsed Bills, 347 |
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PASSAGES AND GANGWAYS OF CHAMBER to be kept clear, 165 |
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PAYMENTS TO SELECT COMMITTEE WITNESSES, 413 |
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PECUNIARY INTEREST - |
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Definition, 225 |
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION, 173, 175 |
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PERSONAL GRIEVANCES - Petitions complaining of, 95 |
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PERSONAL INTEREST - See PECUNIARY INTEREST above |
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PETITIONS - |
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Clerk to certify, 79; and read, 93 |
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by Member, 90 - |
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but not to be from Member presenting, 91 |
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Printing of, 96, 418, 419 |
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PLACES OF MEMBERS - Orders regulating 44-47 |
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POSSESSION OF THE HOUSE OR CHAIR - |
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Member held to be in, when the Business of which he is in charge is called on, 166 - |
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interruptions permitted, in certain cases, 182 |
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POSTPONED CLAUSES - |
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Clause may be postponed if not amended, 297 |
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PRAYERS, 51 |
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PREAMBLE TO BILL - |
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Consideration - |
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after clauses and schedules and before title, 290 |
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PRE-AUDIENCE, 166, 169, 197, 198 |
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PRECEDENCE OF - |
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Certain unopposed business - if so desired by Member in charge, 64 - |
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for production or printing of Papers, 64 |
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Debate on President’s Ruling, 205 |
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PRECINCTS OF HOUSE - |
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Member suspended to withdraw from, 212 |
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PREROGATIVE, ROYAL - |
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Address to Governor necessary for Papers required involving Prerogative, 449 |
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PRESENTATION OF - |
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Addresses to Governor, 13, 237, 239, 240 |
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from Committee of Whole, 375 |
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PRESIDENT, THE - |
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Absence of - Election of Deputy, 24, 25 |
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adjourns for want of Quorum without Question put, 50, 53, 54 |
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After-Session Papers to be forwarded to, 454 |
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announces Chairperson’s Certificate before Third Reading, 314 |
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leaves Chair of Council without Question put after Second Reading, 288 - |
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exceptions: |
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when Bill referred to Select Committee, 268; when Constitution Bill carried by less than Absolute Majority, 282; when Notice of Instruction has been given, 426 |
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takes Chair of Committee, 353 |
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counts Council before putting Question for Second and Third Reading of certain Constitution Bills, 282 |
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Casting Voice, 231; and in Committee, 361 |
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See also Constitution Act, section 26(2), (3) |
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Chair - |
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Questions from, 121, 125, 126, 128, 129 |
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Committees of Whole - |
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leaves Chair of Council without Question on Order being made or read, 352; exception: where Notice of Instruction given |
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in cases of grave disorder, 358 |
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takes Chair of Committee, 353 |
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Counts Council - |
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at Second and Third Readings of certain Constitutional Bills, 282 |
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Debates - |
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may direct - |
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Member to discontinue speech, 186 |
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Member speaking to address, 167 |
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Divisions - |
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Casting Voice (President), 231; (Chairperson), 361 |
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decision on, not to be questioned until after, 206 |
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puts question again, 223 |
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Election - |
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Orders regulating, 10, 16-23 |
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Guided by House of Commons practice, 1 |
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from Governor - receives and reads, 242, 243 |
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Notices of Motion - |
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amends unbecoming, 104 |
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Order - |
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decides objections to Rulings of Chairperson, 360 |
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disorderly strangers, 216 |
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disobedience to authority of, 208 |
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debate on, adjourned and to be first Order of Day for next meeting unless otherwise ordered, 205 |
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reports - |
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arrests without delay, 217 |
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resumes Chair when grave disorder arises in Committee, 358 |
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Prayers - reads, 51 |
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divides complicated, 125 |
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Questions by Members directed to - No entry of, on Notice Paper, 99 |
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documents presented to, may be ordered to be released by, 400 |
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Speech of Governor - Tables copy of, 12 |
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admits, 445 |
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delivery into custody of, 216 |
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Suspension of Sitting - May suspend sitting in cases of very grave disorder, 213 |
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during Recess, 10 |
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Vote - Casting, 231; on Second and Third Readings of bills, 231 |
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examines before Council, 439 |
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PREVIOUS QUESTION - |
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Cannot be amended or moved on an amendment, 147 |
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PRINTING - |
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Bills - |
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after First Reading, 284 |
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Assembly Bills - procedure on suggested amendments, 341 |
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use of italic type in - |
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Bills amended by Select Committees, 311 |
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when Bill finally agreed to by both Houses, 348 |
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Papers, Petitions and Reports - |
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Motion for adoption of Printing Committee Reports - details of papers not open to discussion on, 419 |
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Appointment, 415 |
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Notices of Motion over Orders of the Day, 65 |
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PRIVATE BUSINESS - Precedence to, on Wednesday, 64, 70 |
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Breach of, by newspapers, 203 |
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Council may resolve to refer question to, 202 |
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Casting Vote of President and Chairperson - any reasons given to be recorded in, 231, 361 |
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PROCLAMATION CONVENING PARLIAMENT - To be read by Clerk, 5 |
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Commitments quashed by, 217 |
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Witnesses before Select Committee entitled to, 437 |
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PROTESTS AND DISSENTS may be added to Select Committee Report, 405 |
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QUARRELS - Council will interfere to prevent, between Members, 218 |
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Adjournment of Debate, 195 |
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Amendments, 130-143 |
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QUESTIONS TO MEMBERS, 98-113 |
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Absence of Member who has given Notice, 113 |
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alteration of terms of, 102 |
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Questions called on and not asked or answered, lapse, 112 |
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See also Matters of urgent public importance, 116 |
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Before Council or any Committee thereof, 436-442 |
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after notice taken, 54 - Council counted and bells rung, 54 |
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Members present at time of adjournment for want of Quorum - names to be recorded, 56 |
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consists of ten Members including Chairperson, 354 |
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after Division, 369 |
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In Joint Committees - subject to minimum fixed by each House, may be fixed by Committee, J.S.O. 4 |
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absence of, at time of meeting or after, 390 |
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RATE - Bills for appropriating any Rate, Tax, Duty or Impost to be specially certified, 277 |
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Assigned in case of disagreement to amendments in Bills, 331, 340 |
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RECOMMENDATION OF GOVERNOR - |
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Assembly Bills and Amendments appropriating Revenue - to be certified by Clerk of Assembly, 277 |
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RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CONFERENCES, 260, 338 |
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Bills, 307, 313, 290, 295 |
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Clerk to - |
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have custody of, 31 |
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REFLECTIONS, INJURIOUS - Not permitted on Parliament of State or Commonwealth or Members thereof, the Governor, and the Judges or Courts of Law, except on substantive Motion after Notice and on specific charge, 193 |
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REFLECTIONS ON VOTES OF COUNCIL AND STATUTES - Not permitted except on motion for rescinding or repealing the same, 192, 193 |
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REPEAL OF - |
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Previous Standing Orders, 4 |
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Certain Summary Motions restricted - |
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adjournment of Council, 59 |
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Chairperson do now leave Chair, 371 |
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Speech, 186 |
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Allowed to mover of substantive Motion, 176; but may be waived in favour of another, 177 |
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Addresses, 241 |
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Not allowed on amendment, Previous Question or Instruction 176 |
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REPORTER TO THE COUNCIL - |
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Not to give evidence elsewhere without leave of Council, 444 |
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REPORTS - |
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Governor’s reply to - |
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presentation of Addresses to be reported, 241 |
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Of Committees of the Whole Council to be brought up and received without question, 375, and dealt with, 376 |
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RESCINDING A RESOLUTION - |
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During same Session requires seven days’ Notice and Absolute Majority, 159 |
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RESOLUTIONS - |
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Definition, 158 |
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in same Session requires seven days’ Notice and Absolute Majority except in cases of error, 159 |
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Reported from Committee by Chairperson, 370 - |
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how treated, 376 |
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RESTORED BILLS, 174, 346, 347; J.S.O’s. 14 and 17 |
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RESUMPTION OF INTERRUPTED BUSINESS - |
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Caused by - |
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adjournment of Council, 77 |
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In Committee, 372-374 |
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RETURNS AND PAPERS - May be presented at any time when other business not before Council, without comment, 450 |
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RETURNS BY RETURNING OFFICER - Petitions against, 90, 95 |
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REVENUE, THE - Bills appropriating, 277, 278 |
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REVIVAL OF - |
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Bills, 281, 346, 282, 341, 174 |
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ROLL - Members’, how to be kept, 28 |
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ROYAL ASSENT - Bills agreed to by both Houses not assented to or reserved prior to prorogation, J.S.O. 17 |
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ROYAL FAMILY - |
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Addresses to members of - |
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how proposed and signed, 236 |
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Joint Addresses to - how presented, J.S.O. 12 |
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ROYAL PREROGATIVE - |
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Address to Governor necessary for Papers required, involving, 449 |
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RULINGS OF - |
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Chairperson of Committees - Objection to, 360 |
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SAME QUESTION - |
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Not to be again proposed during Session unless previous resolution rescinded, 124, 139 |
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see Amending Act of same Session, 274 |
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SAND-GLASS to be kept on Table and turned by Clerk on Divisions, 222 |
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SCHEDULES TO BILLS - |
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In Committee - |
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consideration - Order of, 290 |
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Recommittal on Third Reading for consideration of, 313 |
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SCHEDULES TO MESSAGES - |
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Of Amendments - |
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agreed to with amendment or further amendment, 332 |
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Of Reasons for Disagreement with Amendments - |
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assigned when amendments disagreed to, 331 |
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Of Suggested Amendments, 341 |
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SEATS OR PLACES OF MEMBERS - Orders regulating, 44-47 |
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SECONDER OF MOTION - |
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May reserve speech, 179 |
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adjournment of Council, 59 |
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SELECT COMMITTEES - See 377-413 and Committees, Select. |
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SENATORS OF COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT - |
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Joint Sittings of House for election of, J.S.O. 16 |
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SESSIONAL ORDERS - Suspension of, 456-460 |
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SEVEN DAYS’ NOTICE required for - |
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Joint Sittings for election of Senators, J.S.O. 16 |
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SIGNATURES ON PETITIONS, 83-87 |
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SIX MONTHS’ AMENDMENT- |
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If carried, Bill cannot be revived, 281 |
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SOVEREIGN - |
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Addresses to, 235; transmission to Governor, 237, 239, 240, 241 |
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SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - |
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Joint Addresses - |
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signs and agrees as to mode of presentation, J.S.O’s. 11, 12 |
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Joint Sittings for election of Senator - |
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summoned by, in absence of President, J.S.O. 16 |
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SPEECHES - |
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In Committee not to be referred to in Council except in explanation, 187 |
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SPEECH OF GOVERNOR, 12, 13 |
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STAGE OF BILL - Definition of term "stage" re lapsed Bills, 347 |
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STANDING COMMITTEES - |
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Appointment of, 11, 414 |
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instruction to, 418 |
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STANDING ORDERS - |
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Applicable to procedures of Joint Committees and to Joint Sittings to elect Senators, J.S.O’s. 9, 16, 31 |
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by Motion after Notice by ordinary majority, 456 |
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Suspension not permitted in respect of Standing Orders concerning - |
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Constitution Bills requiring Absolute Majority on Second and Third Readings, 282 |
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STATE POLICY - overrules question of Member’s personal interest, 225 |
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STATUTES not to be reflected upon: exception; 192 |
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STRANGERS - |
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Admitted only by President within or without the Bar, 445 |
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SUGGESTIONS IN MONEY BILLS - |
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Originating in Assembly, procedure, 341 |
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SUMMARY MOTIONS - |
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Adjournment of Council, 59 |
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that Chairperson do now leave the Chair, 371 |
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SUPERSEDING OF QUESTIONS - |
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By adjournment of Council, Previous Question and by amendment, 122 |
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SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS - |
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During Conference, 254 |
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See resumption, 76 |
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SUSPENSION OF MEMBER - |
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For disobedience of Order of Council, 215 |
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SUSPENSION OF QUESTIONS - By Points of Order or Privilege, 201 |
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SUSPENSION OF SITTINGS - |
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Half-past Six O’Clock Rule, 60 |
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SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS AND SESSIONAL ORDERS, 456-460 |
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Standing Orders 124, 281, 282 may not be suspended |
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SWORN - New members to be, 9 |
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TABLE, THE - |
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Documents quoted in debate ordered to be laid upon, 452 |
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TABLING DOCUMENTS QUOTED IN DEBATE, 452 |
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TAXATION - Clauses in Council Bills dealing with, 278 |
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TAX, RATE, DUTY OR IMPOST - Bills for appropriating to be specially certified by Clerk of the Assembly, 277 |
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TEDIOUS REPETITION OF SPEECH, 186, 367 |
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TELLERS - |
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Appointed by President on Division, 223 |
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TEN MINUTES - Allowed to form Quorum, 50 |
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THANKS - Vote of, may be moved without Notice by Minister, 118 |
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TIE - |
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Chairperson gives Casting Voice, 361 |
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TIME LIMIT TO SPEECHES - Five minutes on Suspension of Standing or Sessional Orders, 458 |
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TITLE OF BILL - |
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Any amendment to (in Committee) to be specially reported, 293 |
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TRANSLATION - Petitions to be in English or have English translation, 82 |
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TUESDAY AND THURSDAY SITTINGS - |
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Appointed, 48 |
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TWICE - |
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No Member to speak twice, with certain exceptions, 174 |
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TWO NOTICES - Not to be given consecutively by same Member if another Member has one to give, 106
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UNANIMOUS - |
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Leave of Council, 3 |
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UNBECOMING NOTICES amended or expunged, 104 |
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UNCOVERED - Members to be when - |
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Entering, leaving or moving about Chamber, 163 |
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UNOPPOSED BUSINESS - |
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Entertained before Adoption of Address in Reply, 14 |
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URGENCY - |
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Addresses, 235 |
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evidenced by three Members rising in places, 116 |
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Petitions, 95 |
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URGENT MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE - Order regulating Motion concerning, 116
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VACANCY IN OFFICE OF PRESIDENT - |
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During Recess, 10 |
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VOICES - |
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To be given, "Aye" or "No", 129 |
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Casting Voice to be given by - |
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Chairperson of Committees, 361 |
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in Joint Committee, Chairperson has Deliberative but no Casting Voice, J.S.O. 6 |
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See also Leave of Council, 3; unanimous pleasure, 197 |
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VOTES DISALLOWED BY - |
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Committees, 362, 379 (personal interest) |
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VOTE OF COUNCIL - Reflections on, not permitted with an exception, 192 |
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VOTE OF THANKS may be moved by Minister without Notice, 118 |
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VOTING - |
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Ballot - |
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election of President, 18-20 |
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Divisions, 219-232 |
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on election of President, determined by lot by Clerk, 20 |
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Voices to be given Aye or No, 129 |
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in Committee of Whole, Chairperson has Casting Voice, 361 |
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WARRANT OF PRESIDENT - |
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Witnesses failing to obey, 432 |
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WASTE LANDS - Bills granting to persons or bodies, 268 |
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WEDNESDAY SITTINGS - |
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Appointed, 48 |
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WITHDRAWAL OF - |
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Amendments, by leave, 140 |
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WITNESSES - |
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Before Committee of Whole, any Member may put questions directly to, 440 |
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examined in place, 442 |
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Neglect to obey summons, 432 |
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not to give evidence without special permission of Council, 444 |
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Payment of, by Select Committees, 413 |
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WORDS - |
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Enacting - of Bills, not put to Committee except under Instruction, 292 |
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if taken down, Member refusing to explain or withdraw and apologise, named by President, 208 |
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WRITS to be laid on the Table, 9 |
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WRITING - Definition, 3 |
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