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Ch8 Order of business and the sitting day / ORDER OF BUSINESS / Ordinary order of business / Presentation of documents

Database

House Practice

Date

01-05-2005

Source

House of Reps

Parl No.

41

Chapter

Order of business and the sitting day

Chapter No.

Chapter 08

Page

254

Section No.

 

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procedural/practcer/chapter08.33.doc


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House of Representatives                                Ch 8                                                 p 254

 

Order of business and the sitting day / ORDER OF BUSINESS / Ordinary order of business

 

Presentation of documents

The presentation of documents follows Question Time. Documents may be presented by Ministers or the Speaker, pursuant to statute or otherwise, or by order of the House. 1 Formerly documents were presented individually, but arrangements introduced in 1988 2 have permitted the presentation of documents together. The arrangements for this are:

  • by 12 noon on the day of presentation a schedule of documents to be presented is made available to the Manager of Opposition Business and later circulated to all Members in the Chamber;

  • following questions without notice a Minister presents the documents as listed on the schedule;

  • documents so listed are recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and Hansard;

  • if a schedule has not been circulated, or if documents have not been included on the schedule, the documents in question must be presented individually; and

  • if a statement is to be made or a motion moved in relation to a document, a Minister may present the document separately.

    • There may be other business arising out of the presentation of a document, such as motions to take note of the document or to make it a Parliamentary Paper. The motion ‘That the House take note of the document’ is used as a device to enable a document to be debated, either at the time it is presented or, more usually, at a later sitting. The selection of documents for debate is agreed on between the Opposition and the Government prior to presentation. The practice since May 1993 3 has been for a single motion to be moved to take note of (the selected) documents presented. The motion is moved by the Minister presenting the documents listed on the schedule, normally the Leader of the House. The resumption of debate on the motion to take note of each of the documents is then made a separate order of the day on the Notice Paper.

    For documents presented at other times see page 258 , and see Chapter on ‘Documents’.



    S.O.s 199-200.



    VP 1987-89/302-3.



     S.O. 202(b).