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Ch9 Motions / MOTIONS RELATING TO THE STANDING ORDERS / Motion to suspend standing or sessional orders / Without notice

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House Practice

Date

01-05-2005

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House of Reps

Parl No.

41

Chapter

Motions

Chapter No.

Chapter 09

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331

Section No.

 

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House of Representatives                                Ch 9                                                 p 331

 

Motions / MOTIONS RELATING TO THE STANDING ORDERS / Motion to suspend standing or sessional orders

 

Without notice

If a suspension motion is moved without notice it must be relevant to any business under discussion and seconded, and can be carried only by an absolute majority of Members. 1 If a Member wishes to move for the suspension of standing orders without notice, the Member—

  • must first receive the call from the Chair; and

  • may not interrupt a Member who is speaking. 2

    • Such a motion can be moved during consideration of an item of business only if it is relevant to that item of business. 3 If the motion is not relevant to the item of business, it must be moved after the item is disposed of—that is, between items of business. 4

    A motion has been ruled out of order because:

  • it contravened the same motion rule; 5

  • there were no standing orders relating to the purpose for which the motion was proposed; 6

  • there was already a motion to suspend standing orders before the House; 7

  • it was unrelated to the question before the House; 8

  • it covered the same subject on which the House had just voted to adjourn debate; 9 and

  • at the time the Member sought to move it another Member was speaking to a motion he had moved. 10

    • If standing orders have been suspended in order to permit certain action, a further motion to suspend standing orders for another unrelated purpose may not be moved until the action which was the subject of the first motion has been completed. 11 It is not in order to move a suspension of standing orders to vary the order of business when a motion to set the order of business has only just been agreed to. 12

    A motion to suspend standing orders should be moved before 9.30 p.m., as the motion itself constitutes new business under the terms of standing order 33. 13 However, a motion moved, by leave (and so by unanimous consent of the House), to enable certain orders of the day to be called on after the specified time has been used and is less objectionable. 14



    S.O. 47(c).



    S.O. 66.



    In such cases, until the question on the suspension motion has been proposed by the Chair, it can be superseded by the closure of the question currently before the House. E.g. H.R. Deb. (12.8.2004) 33002-3.



    H.R. Deb. (28-29.10.70) 2969; VP 1983-84/543; H.R. Deb. (27.3.84) 803.



    Cases described at p. 295 .



    VP 1967-68/50; the motion proposed to suspend standing orders to enable a Minister to complete an answer to a question without limitation of time. See also H.R. Deb. (20.3.80) 1008; the motion proposed to suspend standing orders to enable matter to be incorporated in Hansard.



    H.R. Deb. (12.10.72) 2549.



    H.R. Deb. (28-29.10.70) 2969.



    VP 1977/115.



    VP 1993-95/2345.



    H.R. Deb. (4.12.2003) 23779.



    VP 2002-04/969. For an acceptable form of motion later in the sitting see VP 2002-04/973.



    See Ch. on ‘Order of business and the sitting day’.



    VP 1978-80/1416.