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Ch14 Control and conduct of debate / CURTAILMENT OF SPEECHES AND DEBATE / Adjournment and curtailment of debate / Other provisions for the interruption and conclusion of debates

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House Practice

Date

01-05-2005

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House of Reps

Parl No.

41

Chapter

Control and conduct of debate

Chapter No.

Chapter 14

Page

518

Section No.

 

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House of Representatives                                Ch 14                                                 p 518

 

Control and conduct of debate / CURTAILMENT OF SPEECHES AND DEBATE / Adjournment and curtailment of debate

 

Other provisions for the interruption and conclusion of debates

The standing orders provide for the period of certain debates to be limited in time or to be concluded by procedures not yet dealt with in this chapter. Time limits 1 apply to debates on:

  • the question ‘That the House do now adjourn’ (S.O. 31);

  • the question ‘That grievances be noted’ (S.O. 44);

  • a motion for the suspension of standing orders when moved without notice under standing order 47 (S.O. 1);

  • a motion for allotment of time under the guillotine procedures (S.O. 84);

  • private Members’ business (S.O. 41);

  • proceedings on committee and delegation reports on Mondays (S.O. 39); and

  • matters of public importance (S.O. 46).

    • A debate (or discussion) may also be concluded:

  • at the expiration of the time allotted under the guillotine procedure (S.O. 85(b));

  • on withdrawal of a motion relating to a matter of special interest (S.O. 50);

  • at the conclusion of the time determined by the Selection Committee (S.O. 222(d));

  • by the closure motion ‘That the question be now put’ (S.O. 81); or

  • by a motion ‘That the business of the day be called on’ in respect of a matter of public importance (S.O. 46(e)).

    • A debate may be interrupted:

    1. by the automatic adjournment (S.O. 31);
    2. when the time fixed for the conclusion of certain proceedings under the guillotine procedure has been reached (S.O. 85(a)); or
    3. at the conclusion of the time determined by the Selection Committee (S.O.s 41, 222(d)).

    In all these cases the standing orders make provision as to how the question before the House is to be disposed of (where necessary).

    A debate in the Main Committee may be interrupted by:

    1. the adjournment of the House (S.O. 190(c));
    2. the motion for the adjournment of the sitting of the Committee (S.O. 190(e)); or
    3. the motion that further proceedings be conducted in the House (S.O. 197).

    The Committee may resume proceedings at the point at which they were interrupted following any suspension or adjournment of the Committee (S.O. 196).



    Time limits are consolidated in S.O. 1.