# subarticles

chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00260.01
current_num: 26.01
root_num: 177
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 116
text:
In determining whether a discussion is out of order on the ground of anticipation, regard shall be had by the Speaker to the probability of the matter anticipated being brought before the House within a reasonable time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00290.01
current_num: 29.01
root_num: 298
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 156
text:
Notwithstanding the practice of the House which prohibits in a debate on a motion for the adjournment of the House any reference to matters requiring legislative remedy, the Speaker may permit such incidental reference to legislative action as she may consider relevant to any matter of administration then under debate when enforcement of the prohibition would, in her opinion, unduly restrict the discussion of such matter.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00300.05
current_num: 30.05
root_num: 563
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 163
text:
(b) if such amendment involves leaving out all the effective words of the motion the Speaker shall, after the amendment has been disposed of, forthwith declare the main question (as amended or not as the case may be) to be agreed to.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00310.01
current_num: 31.01
root_num: 180
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 119
text:
In respect of any motion or any bill under consideration on report or any Lords amendment to a bill, the Speaker shall have power to select the amendments, new clauses or new schedules to be proposed thereto.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00310.03
current_num: 31.03
root_num: 439
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 119
text:
The Speaker, or in a committee of the whole House, the Chairman of Ways and Means or either Deputy Chairman, may, if she think fit, call upon any Member who has given notice of an amendment, new clause or new schedule to give such explanation of the object thereof as may enable her to form a judgement upon it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00310.05
current_num: 31.05
root_num: 474
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 119
text:
The powers conferred on the Speaker by this order shall not be exercised by the Deputy Speaker save during the consideration of the estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 547
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 192
text:
If on the last day on which the motion for an address in answer to Her Majesty's Speech is debated in the House an amendment proposed to the said motion shall have been disposed of at or after the expiration of the time for opposed business, a further amendment selected by the Speaker may thereupon be moved, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00340.01
current_num: 34.01
root_num: 90
articleid: 00340
articlecurrent_num: 34
articleroot_num: 79
text:
If the Speaker, or the chairman, shall be of opinion that a dilatory motion is an abuse of the rules of the House, she may forthwith put the question thereupon from the chair, or she may decline to propose the question thereupon to the House or the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00370.01
current_num: 37.01
root_num: 162
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 113
text:
If the opinion of the Speaker or the chairman as to the decision of a question is challenged she shall direct that the lobby be cleared.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00370.02
current_num: 37.02
root_num: 163
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 113
text:
Not more than two minutes from this direction she shall put the question again, and, if her opinion is again challenged, she shall announce the names of tellers.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00370.03
current_num: 37.03
root_num: 164
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 113
text:
After the lapse of at least eight minutes from the direction to clear the lobby she shall direct that the doors giving access to the division lobbies be locked.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
articleroot_num: 97
text:
The Speaker or the chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes, if in her opinion the division is unnecessarily claimed, take the vote of the House, or committee, by calling upon the Members who support, and who challenge her decision, successively to rise in their places; and she shall thereupon, as she thinks fit, either declare the determination of the House or committee, or name tellers for a division.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 91
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 80
text:
The Speaker, or the chairman, after having called the attention of the House, or of the committee, to the conduct of a Member who persists in irrelevance, or tedious repetition either of his own argument or of the arguments used by other Members in debate, may direct him to discontinue his speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00420.01
current_num: 42.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00420
articlecurrent_num: 42
articleroot_num: 96
text:
The Speaker, or the chairman, shall order any Member or Members whose conduct is grossly disorderly to withdraw immediately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting; and the Serjeant at Arms shall act on such orders as he may receive from the chair in pursuance of this order. But if on any occasion the Speaker, or the chairman, deems that her powers under the previous provisions of this order are inadequate, she may name such Member or Members, in which event the same procedure shall be followed as is prescribed by Standing Order No. 43 (Order in debate).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Whenever a Member shall have been named by the Speaker, or by the chairman, immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the chair, or of persistently and wifuly obstructing the business of the House by abusing the rules of the House or otherwise, then if the offence has been committed by such Member in the House, the Speaker shall forthwith put the question, on a motion being made, ' That such Member be suspended from the service of the House'; and if the offence has been committed in a committee of the whole House, the chairman shall forthwith suspend the proceedings of the committee and report the circumstances to the House; and the Speaker shall on a motion being made forthwith put the same question, as if the offence had been committed in the House itself. Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00430.04
current_num: 43.04
root_num: 128
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 75
text:
If a Member, or two or more Members acting jointly, who have been suspended under this order from the service of the House, shall refuse to obey the direction of the Speaker, when severally summoned under the Speaker's orders by the Serjeant at Arms to obey such direction, the Speaker shall call the attention of the House to the fact that recourse to force is necessary in order to compel obedience to her direction, and the Member or Members named by her as having refused to obey her direction shall thereupon and without any further question being put be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00450.01
current_num: 45.01
root_num: 137
articleid: 00450
articlecurrent_num: 45
articleroot_num: 108
text:
In the case of grave disorder arising in the House the Speaker may, if she thinks it necessary to do so, adjourn the House without putting any question, or suspend the sitting for a time to be named by her.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0045A.01
current_num: 45A.01
root_num: 696
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 212
text:
The Speaker may announce at the commencement of public business that, because of the number of Members wishing to speak in a debate on one of the matters specified in paragraph (2) of this order, she will call Members either between six o'clock and ten minutes before eight o'clock or between seven o'clock and ten minutes before nine o'clock on Monday to Thursday sittings, and between half-past eleven o'clock and one o'clock on Friday sittings, to speak for not more than ten minutes; and whenever the Speaker has made such an announcement she may, between those hours, direct any Member who has spoken for ten minutes in such a debate to resume his seat forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00520.10
current_num: 52.10
root_num: 691
articleid: 00520
articlecurrent_num: 52
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten o'clock on an allotted day or half day, or as soon thereafter as proceedings under the proviso to paragraph (3)(b) of this order have been disposed of, the Speaker shall put, successively, any questions deferred under paragraph (4) of this order, and any questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on all other estimates appointed for consideration on that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00530.01
current_num: 53.01
root_num: 430
articleid: 00530
articlecurrent_num: 53
articleroot_num: 209
text:
On any day to which the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) or (4) of this order apply the Speaker shall at ten o'clock put the questions on-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00600.01
current_num: 60.01
root_num: 181
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 120
text:
If on an amendment to the question 'That a bill be now read a second time (or the third time)' it is decided that the word 'now' stand part of the question, the Speaker shall forthwith declare the bill to be read a second or the third time as the case may be. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00610.03
current_num: 61.03
root_num: 170
articleid: 00610
articlecurrent_num: 61
articleroot_num: 115
text:
A motion to commit a bill to a standing committee in respect of some of its provisions and to a committee of the whole House in respect of other provisions may be made by the Member in charge of the bill and, if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time, shall not require notice, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. If such a motion is opposed, the Speaker after permitting, if she thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes the motion shall, without permitting any further debate, put the question thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00610.04
current_num: 61.04
root_num: 264
articleid: 00610
articlecurrent_num: 61
articleroot_num: 115
text:
If the question on a motion made under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of this order is negatived, the Speaker shall forthwith declare that the bill stands committed to a standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00640.01
current_num: 64.01
root_num: 218
articleid: 00640
articlecurrent_num: 64
articleroot_num: 132
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into a committee on a bill, the Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee, unless notice of an instruction to such committee has been given, when such instruction shall be first disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00720.01
current_num: 72.01
root_num: 178
articleid: 00720
articlecurrent_num: 72
articleroot_num: 117
text:
If a motion to re-commit a bill as a whole be made, the Speaker shall permit a brief explanatory statement of the reasons for such re-committal from the Member who makes, and a brief statement from a Member who opposes, any such motion, and shall then put the question thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00760.03
current_num: 76.03
root_num: 588
articleid: 00760
articlecurrent_num: 76
articleroot_num: 52
text:
If the Speaker is satisfied that a Lords amendment imposes a charge upon the public revenue such as is required to be authorised by resolution of the House under Standing Order No. 47 (Certain proceedings relating to public money) and that such charge has not been so authorised, on reaching that amendment, the Speaker shall declare that she is so satisfied and the amendment shall be deemed to have been disagreed to and shall be so recorded in the Journal.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00800.01
current_num: 80.01
root_num: 219
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 133
text:
There shall be a committee, to be called the Business Committee, consisting of the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall be chairman of the committee, and not more than eight other Members to be nominated by the Speaker in respect of each bill to which this order applies. The quorum of the committee shall be four. The committee-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00810.01
current_num: 81.01
root_num: 362
articleid: 00810
articlecurrent_num: 81
articleroot_num: 181
text:
If a motion be made by a Minister of the Crown providing for an allocation of time to any proceedings on a bill the Speaker shall, not more than three hours after the commencement of the proceedings on such a motion, put any question necessary to dispose of those proceedings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00840.02
current_num: 84.02
root_num: 173
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 95 (Scottish Standing Committees), the bills committed and statutory instruments or draft statutory instruments or measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures referred to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by the Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00850.01
current_num: 85.01
root_num: 266
articleid: 00850
articlecurrent_num: 85
articleroot_num: 147
text:
The chairman or chairmen of each standing committee shall be appointed by the Speaker from the Chairmen's Panel.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00860.08
current_num: 86.08
root_num: 475
articleid: 00860
articlecurrent_num: 86
articleroot_num: 171
text:
(i) for the consideration of any public bill certified by the Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland or of a public bill (or part of a public bill) ordered to be considered by a Scottish standing committee, the committee shall be so constituted as to include not fewer than sixteen Members representing Scottish constituencies;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00890.03
current_num: 89.03
root_num: 448
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(a) Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed or referred to a standing committee, or of a motion relative to a European Community document or documents or an amendment thereto given under Standing Order No. 102 (European Standing Committees) shall stand referred to the committee, and the chairman shall have the like powers as are given to the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means and either Deputy Chairman respectively by Standing Order No. 31 (Selection of amendments).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00900.01
current_num: 90.01
root_num: 353
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 164
text:
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a public bill be referred to a second reading committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it: Provided that no such notice shall be given until the bill has been printed and delivered to the Vote Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00910.01
current_num: 91.01
root_num: 692
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 211
text:
A special standing committee to which a bill has been committed shall have power, during a period not exceeding 28 days (excluding periods when the House is adjourned for more than two days) from the committal of the bill, to send for persons, papers and records, and, for this purpose, to hold up to four morning sittings of not more than three hours each. At not more than three sittings oral evidence may be given and, unless the committee otherwise orders, all such evidence shall be given in public. Oral evidence shall be printed in the official report of the committee's debates together with such written evidence as the committee may order to be so printed. Provided that, in the case of bills certified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 94E (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) and committed pursuant to paragraph (5) thereof to a special standing committee, the three morning sittings may be held in Scotland.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00910.02
current_num: 91.02
root_num: 693
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 211
text:
For the sittings referred to in paragraph (1) of this order, and notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 85 (Chairmen of standing committees), the Speaker may appoint any Member other than a Minister of the Crown as chairman of a special standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00920.01
current_num: 92.01
root_num: 356
articleid: 00920
articlecurrent_num: 92
articleroot_num: 165
text:
A bill which has been considered by a second reading committee or by the Scottish Grand Committee in relation to the principle of the bill may be referred for consideration on report to a standing committee or to the Scottish Grand Committee, as the case may be, upon a motion made after notice by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00950.01
current_num: 95.01
root_num: 291
articleid: 00950
articlecurrent_num: 95
articleroot_num: 177
text:
For the consideration of bills certified by the Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee or bills committed to a Scottish Standing Committee not more than two standing committees may be appointed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 00980.05
current_num: 98.05
root_num: 499
articleid: 00980
articlecurrent_num: 98
articleroot_num: 167
text:
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a public bill be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01000.03
current_num: 100.03
root_num: 510
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 189
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business to the effect that a specified matter or matters relating to regional affairs in England be referred to the standing committee for its consideration, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01010.04
current_num: 101.04
root_num: 489
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
(a) a Member has given notice of a motion for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that a statutory instrument be annulled, or of a motion that a draft of an Order in Council be not submitted to Her Majesty in Council, or that a statutory instrument be not made, or that the House takes note of a statutory instrument, or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01010.05
current_num: 101.05
root_num: 490
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
(b) A Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that a statutory instrument or draft statutory instrument be approved,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01010.06
current_num: 101.06
root_num: 491
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that the said instrument or draft instrument be referred to such a committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01010.08
current_num: 101.08
root_num: 493
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
If any motion is made in the House of the kind specified in paragraph 3(a) or 3(b) of this order, in relation to any instrument or draft instrument reported to the House in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order, the Speaker shall put forthwith the question thereon and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01010.09
current_num: 101.09
root_num: 513
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
The provisions of this order shall apply to measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures as if such measures and such instruments were statutory instruments; and the notice referred to in paragraph 3(b) of this order may, in respect of such measures and instruments, have been given by any Member.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01020.04
current_num: 102.04
root_num: 725
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 195
text:
(a) have regard to the qualifications of the Members nominated and to the composition of the House; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01020.18
current_num: 102.18
root_num: 572
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 195
text:
If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Community document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (8) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01030.02
current_num: 103.02
root_num: 237
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 136
text:
A business sub-committee shall consist of the chairman or one of the chairmen of the committee (who shall be chairman of the sub-committee) and seven members of the committee, to be nominated by the Speaker as soon as may be after such an order has been made; the quorum of the sub-committee shall be four, of whom the chairman so nominated shall be one; and the sub-committee shall have power to report from time to time to the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01170.02
current_num: 117.02
root_num: 465
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 179
text:
The Speaker shall have power to authorise such publication in the case of any such select committee which is no longer in existence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01240.07
current_num: 124.07
root_num: 624
articleid: 01240
articlecurrent_num: 124
articleroot_num: 205
text:
but excluding any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974 and any draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01240.21
current_num: 124.21
root_num: 638
articleid: 01240
articlecurrent_num: 124
articleroot_num: 205
text:
The committee and any sub-committee appointed by it shall have the assistance of the Counsel to the Speaker and, if their Lordships think fit, of the Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.01
current_num: 124A.01
root_num: 856
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Deregulation Committee, to examine every document containing proposals laid before the House under section 3, and every draft order proposed to be made under section 1, of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.02
current_num: 124A.02
root_num: 857
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee shall report to the House, in relation to every document containing proposals laid before the House under the said section 3, either


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.06
current_num: 124A.06
root_num: 861
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee shall report to the House, in relation to every draft order laid before the House under the said section 1, its recommendation whether the draft order should be approved.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.07
current_num: 124A.07
root_num: 862
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee may report to the House on any matter arising from consideration of the said proposals or draft orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.08
current_num: 124A.08
root_num: 863
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(A) in its consideration of proposals the committee shall consider in each case whether the proposals


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.13
current_num: 124A.13
root_num: 868
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(e) impose a charge on the public revenues or contain provisions requiring payments to be made to the Exchequer or any government department or to any local or public authority in consideration of any licence or consent or of any services to be rendered, or prescribe the amount of any such charge or payment;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.18
current_num: 124A.18
root_num: 873
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(B) In its consideration of draft orders, the committee shall consider in each case all the matters set out in sub-paragraph (A) above and the extent to which the Minister concerned has had regard to any resolution or report of the Committee or to any other representations made during the period for parliamentary consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.23
current_num: 124A.23
root_num: 878
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, and to report from time to time;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.25
current_num: 124A.25
root_num: 880
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(c) to appoint a sub-committee, of which the quorum shall be two, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.26
current_num: 124A.26
root_num: 881
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(d) to communicate its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest to any committee appointed by this House and to any committee appointed by the Lords to examine deregulation proposals and draft orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.27
current_num: 124A.27
root_num: 882
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee and the sub-committee shall have leave to meet concurrently with any select committee appointed by the Lords to examine deregulation proposals and draft orders and any sub-committee thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.28
current_num: 124A.28
root_num: 883
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee and the sub-committee shall have the assistance of the Counsel to the Speaker and, if their Lordships think fit, the Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.29
current_num: 124A.29
root_num: 884
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee and the sub-committee shall have power to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend meetings at which witnesses are being examined and such Members may, at the discretion of the chairman, ask questions of those witnesses; but no Member not being of the committee shall otherwise take part in the proceedings of the committee or sub-committee, or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.34
current_num: 124A.34
root_num: 889
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
it shall afford to any government department concerned an opportunity of furnishing orally or in writing to it or to the sub-committee appointed by it such explanations as the department think fit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0124A.35
current_num: 124A.35
root_num: 890
articleid: 0124A
articlecurrent_num: 124A
articleroot_num: 227
text:
It shall be an instruction to the committee that it report on every draft order not more than fifteen sitting days after the draft order was laid before the House, indicating in the case of draft orders which it recommends should be approved whether its recommendation was agreed without a division.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01250.14
current_num: 125.14
root_num: 759
articleid: 01250
articlecurrent_num: 125
articleroot_num: 217
text:
Each committee appointed under this order shall have power to make recommendations to the House of Commons Commission or to the Speaker; but any such recommendation whose implementation would incur additional expenditure from the Votes for House of Commons (Administration) or (Works) shall also be considered by the Finance and Services Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01250.15
current_num: 125.15
root_num: 760
articleid: 01250
articlecurrent_num: 125
articleroot_num: 217
text:
Each committee appointed under this order shall have power to make rules and give directions to Officers of the House in respect only of such administrative matters as may from time to time be determined by the Speaker or by the House of Commons Commission.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0125A.04
current_num: 125A.04
root_num: 765
articleid: 0125A
articlecurrent_num: 125A
articleroot_num: 218
text:
(c) to report to the House of Commons Commission or the Speaker on the financial and administrative implications of recommendations made to them by any of the committees appointed under Standing Orders No. 125 (Domestic Committees) or No. 125B (Select Committee on Broadcasting).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0125B.09
current_num: 125B.09
root_num: 782
articleid: 0125B
articlecurrent_num: 125B
articleroot_num: 219
text:
The committee shall have power to make recommendations to the House of Commons Commission or to the Speaker; but, any such recommendation whose implementation would incur additional expenditure from the Votes for House of Commons (Administration) or (Works) shall also be considered by the Finance and Services Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 0125B.10
current_num: 125B.10
root_num: 783
articleid: 0125B
articlecurrent_num: 125B
articleroot_num: 219
text:
The committee shall have power to make rules and give directions to Officers of the House in respect only of such administrative matters as may from time to time be determined by the Speaker or by the House of Commons Commission.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01270.11
current_num: 127.11
root_num: 652
articleid: 01270
articlecurrent_num: 127
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committee and any sub-committee appointed by it shall have the assistance of the Counsel to the Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01300.13
current_num: 130.13
root_num: 787
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
10 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of Legislative Counsel) | 13 | 4


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01300.15
current_num: 130.15
root_num: 549
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
12 Scottish Affairs | Scottish Office; and administration and expenditure of the Lord Advocate's Departments, together with policy functions discharged by the Lord Advocate through the Scottish Courts Administration, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, advice given within government by Scottish Law Officers, and the drafting of bills| 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01300.19
current_num: 130.19
root_num: 529
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
16 Treasury and Civil Service | Treasury, Office of Public Service and Science (but excluding the Office of Science and Technology and the drafting of bills by the Parliamentary Counsel Office), Board of Inland Revenue, Board of Customs and Excise | 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01300.26
current_num: 130.26
root_num: 676
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(d) to communicate to any other such committee and to the Committee of Public Accounts and to the Deregulation Committee their evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01330.05
current_num: 133.05
root_num: 716
articleid: 01330
articlecurrent_num: 133
articleroot_num: 5
text:
The Speaker shall not allow any debate, or any Member to speak upon, or in relation to, such petition; but it may be read by the Clerk if required.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01390.01
current_num: 139.01
root_num: 246
articleid: 01390
articlecurrent_num: 139
articleroot_num: 140
text:
When any communication has been received by the Speaker, drawing attention to the fact that copies of any statutory instrument have yet to be laid before Parliament, and explaining why such copies have not been so laid before the instrument came into operation, the Speaker shall thereupon lay such communication upon the Table of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01430.01
current_num: 143.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 105
text:
If at any sitting of the House, or in a committee of the whole House, any Member shall take notice that strangers are present, the Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, 'That strangers do withdraw', and such question, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business: Provided that the Speaker or the chairman may, whenever she thinks fit, order the withdrawal of strangers from any part of the House. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1994-11-24
subarticleid: 01460.01
current_num: 146.01
root_num: 26
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 22
text:
When any letter or packet directed to this House shall come to the Speaker, she shall open the same; and acquaint the House, at its next sitting, with the contents thereof, if proper to be communicated to this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-04-20
subarticleid: 0108A.01
current_num: 108A.01
root_num: 891
articleid: 0108A
articlecurrent_num: 108A
articleroot_num: 228
text:
If any select committee, or sub-committee thereof, considers that the presence at a meeting, or part of a meeting, of that committee to which the public are not admitted of any specified Member of the House not nominated to that committee would obstruct the business of the committee, it shall have power to direct such Member to withdraw forthwith; and the Serjeant at Arms shall act on such instructions as he may receive from the chairman of the committee in pursuance of this Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall meet on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at half-past two o'clock and will first proceed with private business, motions for unopposed returns and questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00090.02
current_num: 9.02
root_num: 389
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday until all the questions asked at the commencement of public business shall have been disposed of, and, save as provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 20 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), no Member other than a Minister of the Crown may make such a motion on any day before the orders of the day or notices of motions shall have been entered upon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00090.07
current_num: 9.07
root_num: 204
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution or by the Speaker in pursuance of Standing Order No. 45 (Power of the Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting): Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been made at or after ten o'clock in the evening the Speaker shall, after the expiration of half an hour after that motion has been made, adjourn the House without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 892
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
The House shall meet on Wednesdays at half-past nine o'clock and shall between that hour and two o'clock proceed with a motion for the adjournment of the House made by a Minister of the Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00100.02
current_num: 10.02
root_num: 893
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
Save as provided in paragraphs (3) and (4) below, the subjects for debate on the said motion shall be chosen by ballot under arrangements made by the Speaker; and no subject shall be raised without notice.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00100.03
current_num: 10.03
root_num: 894
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
On the last Wednesday before any adjournment of the House for more than four days, the subject for debate on the said motion until half-past twelve o'clock shall be "matters to be considered before the forthcoming adjournment".


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00100.04
current_num: 10.04
root_num: 895
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
On not more than three Wednesdays in each session to be appointed by the Speaker, the subject or subjects for debate on the said motion until half-past twelve o'clock shall be select committee reports chosen by the Liaison Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00100.05
current_num: 10.05
root_num: 896
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
Not more than two subjects shall be raised before half-past twelve o'clock, and not more than three between that hour and two o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00100.06
current_num: 10.06
root_num: 897
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
A motion for the adjournment of the House not disposed of at two o'clock shall lapse and the sitting shall be suspended until half-past two o'clock; the House will then proceed with private business, motions for unopposed returns and questions; no subsequent motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of public business have been disposed of; and, save as provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 20 (Adjournment on a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), no Member other than a Minister of the Crown may make such a motion before the orders of the day or notices of motions shall have been entered upon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00110.03
current_num: 11.03
root_num: 317
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 27
text:
In the application of Standing Order No. 15 (Delegated legislation (negative procedure)) to the sittings on Fridays there shall be substituted references to four o'clock for references to half-past eleven o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0011A.02
current_num: 11A.02
root_num: 899
articleid: 0011A
articlecurrent_num: 11A
articleroot_num: 232
text:
If a motion to appoint such Fridays is made by a Minister of the Crown the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0011A.03
current_num: 11A.03
root_num: 900
articleid: 0011A
articlecurrent_num: 11A
articleroot_num: 232
text:
At its rising on the Thursday before each of the Fridays so appointed the House shall stand adjourned till the following Monday without any question being put, unless it shall have resolved otherwise.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0011A.04
current_num: 11A.04
root_num: 901
articleid: 0011A
articlecurrent_num: 11A
articleroot_num: 232
text:
Unless the House shall have resolved to adjourn otherwise than from the previous Thursday to the following Monday, the Fridays so appointed shall be treated as sitting days for the purpose of calculating any period under any order of the House and for the purposes of paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 18 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments) and of Standing Order No. 62 (Notices of amendments, &c., to bills); and on such Fridays-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0011A.06
current_num: 11A.06
root_num: 903
articleid: 0011A
articlecurrent_num: 11A
articleroot_num: 232
text:
(b) notices of amendments to bills, new clauses and new schedules and of amendments to Lords amendments may be received by the Public Bill Office,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00140.03
current_num: 14.03
root_num: 366
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 157
text:
(b) proceedings in pursuance of any standing order of this House which provides that proceedings, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00140.04
current_num: 14.04
root_num: 744
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 157
text:
(c) proceedings on a motion such as is referred to in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 104 (Nomination of select committees) for the nomination or discharge of members of select committees appointed under Standing Order No. 130 (Select committees related to government departments) which has been opposed at or after the interruption of business on a preceding day; Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion shall be put at eleven o'clock or one hour after the commencement of those proceedings, whichever is the later.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0014B.01
current_num: 14B.01
root_num: 302
articleid: 0014B
articlecurrent_num: 14B
articleroot_num: 229
text:
The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings under any Act of Parliament or on European Community documents not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of such proceedings, subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 15 (Delegated legislation (negative procedure)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00150.09
current_num: 15.09
root_num: 285
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 153
text:
(b) any motion that, or for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that, any other document which may be subject to proceedings in the House in pursuance of a statute be annulled, or cease to be in force, or be not made or be disapproved, or words to that effect.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0015A.01
current_num: 15A.01
root_num: 712
articleid: 0015A
articlecurrent_num: 15A
articleroot_num: 215
text:
If a Motion to the effect that the Speaker do issue her warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member is proposed to be made or is made after prayers on any day on which private Members' bills have precedence, and is opposed, proceedings thereon shall lapse.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00220.01
current_num: 22.01
root_num: 583
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 198
text:
When a motion shall have been made by a Minister of the Crown for the adjournment of the House for a specified period or periods, the question thereon shall be put forthwith, and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0045A.01
current_num: 45A.01
root_num: 696
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 212
text:
The Speaker may announce at the commencement of proceedings on any motion or order of the day relating to public business that she intends to call Members to speak for not more than ten minutes in the debate thereon, or between certain hours during that debate, and whenever the Speaker has made such an announcement she may direct any Member (other than a Minister of the Crown, a Member speaking on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, or not more than one Member nominated by the leader of the second largest opposition party) who has spoken for ten minutes to resume his seat forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0050A.01
current_num: 50A.01
root_num: 303
articleid: 0050A
articlecurrent_num: 50A
articleroot_num: 230
text:
The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on motions authorising expenditure in connection with a bill and on ways and means motions in connection with a bill-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0050A.02
current_num: 50A.02
root_num: 906
articleid: 0050A
articlecurrent_num: 50A
articleroot_num: 230
text:
(a) forthwith, if such a motion is made at the same sitting as that at which the bill has been read a second time; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0050A.03
current_num: 50A.03
root_num: 907
articleid: 0050A
articlecurrent_num: 50A
articleroot_num: 230
text:
(b) not later than three-quarters of an hour after the commencement of those proceedings, if the motion is made otherwise.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00540.01
current_num: 54.01
root_num: 184
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 123
text:
When a motion shall have been made for the second reading of a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, the question thereon shall be put forthwith, no order shall be made for the committal of the bill and the question for third reading shall be put forthwith; and the said questions may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058A.01
current_num: 58A.01
root_num: 909
articleid: 0058A
articlecurrent_num: 58A
articleroot_num: 233
text:
In this order 'a consolidation bill' means a public bill which falls to be considered by the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 123 (Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058A.02
current_num: 58A.02
root_num: 910
articleid: 0058A
articlecurrent_num: 58A
articleroot_num: 233
text:
Notices of amendments, new clauses and new schedules to be moved in committee in respect of a consolidation bill may be received by the Clerks at the Table before the bill has been read a second time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058A.03
current_num: 58A.03
root_num: 911
articleid: 0058A
articlecurrent_num: 58A
articleroot_num: 233
text:
When a motion shall have been made for the second reading, or for the third reading, of a consolidation bill, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058A.04
current_num: 58A.04
root_num: 912
articleid: 0058A
articlecurrent_num: 58A
articleroot_num: 233
text:
If a motion that a consolidation bill be not committed is made by a Minister of the Crown immediately after the bill has been read a second time, the motion shall not require notice and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058B.01
current_num: 58B.01
root_num: 913
articleid: 0058B
articlecurrent_num: 58B
articleroot_num: 234
text:
Any public bill, the main purpose of which is to give effect to proposals contained in a report by either of the Law Commissions, other than a private Member's bill or a bill to which Standing Order No. 58A (Consolidation bills) applies, shall, when it is set down for second reading, stand referred to a second reading committee, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058B.04
current_num: 58B.04
root_num: 916
articleid: 0058B
articlecurrent_num: 58B
articleroot_num: 234
text:
If a motion that a bill such as is referred to in paragraph (1) above shall no longer stand referred to a second reading committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0058B.05
current_num: 58B.05
root_num: 917
articleid: 0058B
articlecurrent_num: 58B
articleroot_num: 234
text:
The provisions of paragraphs (3) to (6) of Standing Order No. 90 (Second reading committees) shall apply to any bill referred to a second reading committee under paragraph (1) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00840.02
current_num: 84.02
root_num: 173
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 95 (Scottish Standing Committees), the bills committed and instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by the Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00860.06
current_num: 86.06
root_num: 121
articleid: 00860
articlecurrent_num: 86
articleroot_num: 171
text:
the Committee of Selection shall nominate not fewer than sixteen nor more than fifty Members to serve on each standing committee for the consideration of each bill allocated or referred to it, or for the consideration of instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 00900.02
current_num: 90.02
root_num: 548
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 164
text:
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may with the leave of the House be made by the Member in charge of a private Member's bill at the commencement of public business on any day when private Members' bills have precedence under the provisions of Standing Order No. 13 (Arrangement of public business), that the said bill be referred to a second reading committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith. If such a motion be agreed to, any order that the said bill be read a second time which stands on the paper for that or any subsequent day shall be discharged. No such motion shall be made before the seventh Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence and no such notice shall be given until the bill has been printed and delivered to the Vote Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0094A.07
current_num: 94A.07
root_num: 793
articleid: 0094A
articlecurrent_num: 94A
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(e) motions relating to instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 94F (Scottish Grand Committee (delegated legislation));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0094F.02
current_num: 94F.02
root_num: 820
articleid: 0094F
articlecurrent_num: 94F
articleroot_num: 223
text:
(a) a Member has given notice of a motion for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that a statutory instrument be annulled, or of a motion of a similar character relating to a statutory instrument or to any other instrument (whether or not in draft) which may be subject to proceedings in the House in pursuance of a statute, or of a motion that the House takes note of a statutory instrument, or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0094F.03
current_num: 94F.03
root_num: 821
articleid: 0094F
articlecurrent_num: 94F
articleroot_num: 223
text:
(b) a Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that an instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament (other than a draft deregulation order) be approved,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0094F.04
current_num: 94F.04
root_num: 822
articleid: 0094F
articlecurrent_num: 94F
articleroot_num: 223
text:
a motion may be made by a member of the government, 'That the instrument be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee'; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith and may be decided notwithstanding the expiration of the time for opposed business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0094F.05
current_num: 94F.05
root_num: 823
articleid: 0094F
articlecurrent_num: 94F
articleroot_num: 223
text:
The committee shall consider each instrument referred to it on a motion, 'That the Committee has considered the instrument'; and the chairman shall put any question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on the motion, if not previously disposed of, not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings thereon; and shall thereupon report the instrument to the House without any further question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 0094F.06
current_num: 94F.06
root_num: 824
articleid: 0094F
articlecurrent_num: 94F
articleroot_num: 223
text:
If any motion is made in the House of the kind specified in paragraph 1(a) or 1(b) of this order, in relation to any instrument in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (2) of this order, the Speaker shall put forthwith the question thereon; which may be decided notwithstanding the expiration of the time for opposed business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.01
current_num: 101.01
root_num: 486
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
There shall be one or more standing committees, to be called Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, for the consideration of such instruments (whether or not in draft) as may be referred to them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.03
current_num: 101.03
root_num: 490
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
Where a Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that an instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament (other than a draft deregulation order) be approved, the instrument shall stand referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.04
current_num: 101.04
root_num: 918
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
(a) notice has been given by a Minister of the Crown of a motion that the instrument shall not so stand referred, or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.07
current_num: 101.07
root_num: 489
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
(a) a motion for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that a statutory instrument be annulled, or a motion of a similar character relating to a statutory instrument, or to any other instrument (whether or not in draft) which may be subject to proceedings in the House in pursuance of a statute, or a motion that the House takes note of a statutory instrument, or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.08
current_num: 101.08
root_num: 921
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
(b) a motion that a measure under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 be presented to Her Majesty for her Royal Assent, or a motion relating to an instrument made under such a measure,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.09
current_num: 101.09
root_num: 491
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that the instrument be referred to such a committee, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.10
current_num: 101.10
root_num: 492
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
Each committee shall consider each instrument referred to it on a motion, 'That the committee has considered the instrument'; and the chairman shall put any question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion, if not previously concluded, when the committee shall have sat for one and a half hours (or, in the case of an instrument relating exclusively to Northern Ireland, two and a half hours) after the commencement of those proceedings; and the committee shall thereupon report the instrument to the House without any further question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01010.11
current_num: 101.11
root_num: 493
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
If any motion is made in the House of the kind specified in paragraphs (3) or (4) of this order, in relation to any instrument reported to the House in accordance with paragraph (5) of this order, the Speaker shall put forthwith the question thereon and such question may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01310.03
current_num: 131.03
root_num: 558
articleid: 01310
articlecurrent_num: 131
articleroot_num: 194
text:
(b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01310.04
current_num: 131.04
root_num: 922
articleid: 01310
articlecurrent_num: 131
articleroot_num: 194
text:
(c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such Wednesdays as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 10 (Wednesday sittings).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01330.02
current_num: 133.02
root_num: 713
articleid: 01330
articlecurrent_num: 133
articleroot_num: 5
text:
(a) on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, after a member of the government shall have signified his intention to move 'That this House do now adjourn', for the purpose of bringing the sitting to a conclusion, and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-02
subarticleid: 01330.03
current_num: 133.03
root_num: 714
articleid: 01330
articlecurrent_num: 133
articleroot_num: 5
text:
(b) on Fridays, at the commencement of public business, provided that petitions remaining to be presented at ten o'clock on a Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence under Standing Order No. 13 (Arrangement of public business) shall stand over and may be brought to the Table after a member of the government shall have signified his intention to move 'That this House do now adjourn', for the purpose of bringing the sitting to a conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.03
current_num: 121A.03
root_num: 925
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
(b) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.04
current_num: 121A.04
root_num: 926
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
(c) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.07
current_num: 121A.07
root_num: 929
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of no more than seven Members, of whom three shall be a quorum, and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee; and shall appoint one such sub-committee to receive reports from the Commissioner relating to investigations into specific complaints.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.08
current_num: 121A.08
root_num: 930
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee and any sub-committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.09
current_num: 121A.09
root_num: 931
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committeee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.10
current_num: 121A.10
root_num: 932
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which strangers are admitted to be broadcast.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121A.11
current_num: 121A.11
root_num: 933
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
Mr Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr Solicitor General and Mr Solicitor General for Scotland, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.01
current_num: 121B.01
root_num: 934
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
There shall be an officer of this House, called the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who shall be appointed by the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.03
current_num: 121B.03
root_num: 936
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(a) to maintain the Register of Members' Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House, and to make such arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of those registers as are approved by the Committee on Standards and Privileges or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.04
current_num: 121B.04
root_num: 937
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(b) to provide advice confidentially to Members and other persons or bodies subject to registration on matters relating to the registration of individual interests;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.05
current_num: 121B.05
root_num: 938
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(c) to advise the Committee on Standards and Privileges, its sub-committees and individual Members on the interpretation of any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and on questions of propriety;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.06
current_num: 121B.06
root_num: 939
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(d) to monitor the operation of such code and registers, and to make recommendations thereon to the Committee on Standards and Privileges or an appropriate sub-committee thereof; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.07
current_num: 121B.07
root_num: 940
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(e) to receive and, if he thinks fit, investigate specific complaints from Members and from members of the public in respect of-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-06
subarticleid: 0121B.10
current_num: 121B.10
root_num: 943
articleid: 0121B
articlecurrent_num: 121B
articleroot_num: 236
text:
and to report to the Committee on Standards and Privileges or to an appropriate sub-committee thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-07
subarticleid: 00300.02
current_num: 30.02
root_num: 545
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 163
text:
(1) when to the question 'That a bill be now read a second time (or the third time)' an amendment has been moved to leave out the word 'now', the question shall be, 'That the word 'now' stand part of the question'; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-07
subarticleid: 01300.10
current_num: 130.10
root_num: 525
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
7 Home Affairs | Home Office; policy, administration and expenditure of the Lord Chancellor's Department (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-07
subarticleid: 01300.12
current_num: 130.12
root_num: 787
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
9 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13 | 4


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-07
subarticleid: 01300.13
current_num: 130.13
root_num: 945
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
10 Public Service | Office of Public Service (but excluding the drafting of bills by the Parliamentary Counsel Office) | 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-07
subarticleid: 01300.17
current_num: 130.17
root_num: 526
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
14 Trade and Industry | Department of Trade and Industry (but excluding the Office of Science and Technology) | 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-11-07
subarticleid: 01300.21
current_num: 130.21
root_num: 531
articleid: 01300
articlecurrent_num: 130
articleroot_num: 190
text:
The Education and Employment Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Home Affairs Committee and the Treasury Committee shall each have the power to appoint one sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 239
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 137
text:
Mr. Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Solicitor General for Scotland, or any of them, being Members of the House, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment other than a motion in the Scottish Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 94A (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion or an amendment in a European Standing Committee under Standing Order No. 102 (European Standing Committees) or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 00910.01
current_num: 91.01
root_num: 692
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 211
text:
A special standing committee to which a bill has been committed shall have power, during a period not exceeding 28 days (excluding periods when the House is adjourned for more than two days) from the committal of the bill, to send for persons, papers and records, and, for this purpose, to hold up to four morning sittings of not more than three hours each. At not more than three sittings oral evidence may be given and, unless the committee otherwise orders, all such evidence shall be given in public. Oral evidence shall be printed in the official report of the committee's debates together with such written evidence as the committee may order to be so printed. Provided that, in the case of bills certified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 94E (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) and committed pursuant to paragraph (5) thereof to a special standing committee, the three sittings at which oral evidence may be given may be held in Scotland, in which case those sittings need not be held in the morning.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094A.06
current_num: 94A.06
root_num: 287
articleid: 0094A
articlecurrent_num: 94A
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(d) bills referred to it for consideration or further consideration in relation to their principle, in accordance with Standing Order No. 94E (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094A.09
current_num: 94A.09
root_num: 795
articleid: 0094A
articlecurrent_num: 94A
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(g) motions for the adjournment of the committee made under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 94H (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094A.10
current_num: 94A.10
root_num: 946
articleid: 0094A
articlecurrent_num: 94A
articleroot_num: 176
text:
Any Minister of the Crown, being a Member of the House, though not a member of the committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee and may make a motion, but shall not vote or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094C.05
current_num: 94C.05
root_num: 805
articleid: 0094C
articlecurrent_num: 94C
articleroot_num: 221
text:
(a) No Member except the Minister of the Crown replying to the debate shall be called to speak later than half an hour after the commencement of the first such debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094C.06
current_num: 94C.06
root_num: 806
articleid: 0094C
articlecurrent_num: 94C
articleroot_num: 221
text:
(b) The Member who gave notice of the subject and the Minister of the Crown replying to the debate may each speak for five minutes. Other Members may speak for three minutes.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094C.07
current_num: 94C.07
root_num: 807
articleid: 0094C
articlecurrent_num: 94C
articleroot_num: 221
text:
(c) The chairman may direct any Member who exceeds the limits in sub-paragraph (b) to resume his seat forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094D.01
current_num: 94D.01
root_num: 809
articleid: 0094D
articlecurrent_num: 94D
articleroot_num: 222
text:
The chairman of the Scottish Grand Committee may permit a Minister of the Crown, whether or not a Member of the House, to make a statement, of which prior notice has been given to him, and to answer questions thereon put by members of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094D.03
current_num: 94D.03
root_num: 811
articleid: 0094D
articlecurrent_num: 94D
articleroot_num: 222
text:
(a) facilitating the questioning by members of the committee of the Minister of the Crown about a matter relating to his official responsibilities so far as they relate to Scotland, which, in the case of a Scottish law officer, shall be as provided in the second column of the relevant sub-paragraph of paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 130 (Select committees related to government departments), in which case proceedings under this order shall be brought to a conclusion either at an hour appointed by an order of the committee, for which a motion may be made without notice by a member of the government immediately before the commencement of such proceedings, on which motion the question shall be put forthwith, or, if no such motion is made, not later than three-quarters of an hour after their commencement; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094D.09
current_num: 94D.09
root_num: 817
articleid: 0094D
articlecurrent_num: 94D
articleroot_num: 222
text:
A Minister of the Crown making a statement under paragraph (1) of this order, who is not a Member of the House, may not do so from the body of the committee; and shall not vote, make any motion or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094E.07
current_num: 94E.07
root_num: 947
articleid: 0094E
articlecurrent_num: 94E
articleroot_num: 141
text:
At the conclusion of proceedings on consideration on report of a bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (3) above, or on the order being read for the third reading of such a bill, a motion may be made by a member of the government (or in the case of a private Member's bill, by the Member in charge of the bill), "That the Bill be referred again to the Scottish Grand Committee"; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094E.08
current_num: 94E.08
root_num: 948
articleid: 0094E
articlecurrent_num: 94E
articleroot_num: 141
text:
A bill so referred again to the Scottish Grand Committee shall be considered on a motion, "That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle"; and, when the committee has considered that question for a total of one and a half hours (whether on one or more than one day), the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the motion, and shall then report accordingly to the House (or shall report that the committee has come to no resolution), without any further question being put thereon: Provided that a member of the government may, immediately before the motion "That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle" is made, make without notice a motion to extend the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094E.09
current_num: 94E.09
root_num: 949
articleid: 0094E
articlecurrent_num: 94E
articleroot_num: 141
text:
A bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (8) above shall be ordered to be read the third time on a future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094E.10
current_num: 94E.10
root_num: 950
articleid: 0094E
articlecurrent_num: 94E
articleroot_num: 141
text:
When a motion shall have been made for the third reading of a bill to which paragraph (9) above applies, the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094H.10
current_num: 94H.10
root_num: 847
articleid: 0094H
articlecurrent_num: 94H
articleroot_num: 225
text:
The chairman shall interrupt proceedings (other than on a motion made under paragraph (6) below) at the time specified in relation to the sitting by an order made under paragraph (1) above, or, in the absence of such provision, at one o'clock, subject to paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1995-12-19
subarticleid: 0094H.12
current_num: 94H.12
root_num: 849
articleid: 0094H
articlecurrent_num: 94H
articleroot_num: 225
text:
After the interruption of proceedings or on the completion of the business appointed for consideration at that sitting, whichever is the earlier, a motion for the adjournment of the committee may be made by a member of the government, and, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees) the chairman shall, not later than half an hour after the motion has been made, adjourn the committee without putting any question; and in respect of business taken under this paragraph, the quorum of the committee shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
articleroot_num: 97
text:
The Speaker or the chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes, if in her opinion the division is unnecessarily claimed, take the vote of the House, or committee, by calling upon the Members who support, and who challenge, her decision, successively to rise in their places; and she shall thereupon, as she thinks fit, either declare the determination of the House or committee, or name tellers for a division.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 00850.05
current_num: 85.05
root_num: 203
articleid: 00850
articlecurrent_num: 85
articleroot_num: 147
text:
Any member of a standing committee may, at the request of the chairman of the committee, act as chairman for not more than a quarter of an hour on any one occasion: Provided that such member shall not exercise the powers conferred on the chairman of a standing committee by paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 89 (Procedure in standing committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 239
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 137
text:
Mr. Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Solicitor General for Scotland, or any of them, being Members of the House, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment other than a motion in the Scottish Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 94A (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Welsh Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 98A (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion or an amendment in a European Standing Committee under Standing Order No. 102 (European Standing Committees) or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 00890.01
current_num: 89.01
root_num: 446
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
Except as provided in Standing Order No. 94A (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)), Standing Order No. 98A (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)), and Standing Order No. 102 (European Standing Committees) the quorum of a standing committee shall be seventeen or one third of the number of its members excluding the chairman, whichever is the less; and in calculating the quorum fractions shall be counted as one.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.01
current_num: 98A.01
root_num: 371
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
There shall be a standing committee called the Welsh Grand Committee, which shall consist of all Members representing Welsh constituencies, together with not more than five other Members nominated by the Committee of Selection, which shall have power from time to time to discharge the Members so nominated by it and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.02
current_num: 98A.02
root_num: 951
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
The quorum of the committee shall be seven, subject to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.04
current_num: 98A.04
root_num: 953
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(a) questions tabled in accordance with Standing Order No. 98B (Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.05
current_num: 98A.05
root_num: 954
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(b) short debates held in accordance with Standing Order No. 98C (Welsh Grand Committee (short debates));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.06
current_num: 98A.06
root_num: 955
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(c) ministerial statements proceeded with under Standing Order No. 98D (Welsh Grand Committee (ministerial statements));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.08
current_num: 98A.08
root_num: 497
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(e) such specified matters relating exclusively to Wales as may be referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 98F (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales)); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098A.09
current_num: 98A.09
root_num: 956
articleid: 0098A
articlecurrent_num: 98A
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(f) motions for the adjournment of the committee, made under paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098B.01
current_num: 98B.01
root_num: 958
articleid: 0098B
articlecurrent_num: 98B
articleroot_num: 239
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Welsh Grand Committee by Welsh Office ministers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098B.02
current_num: 98B.02
root_num: 959
articleid: 0098B
articlecurrent_num: 98B
articleroot_num: 239
text:
Notices of questions given under this order shall bear an indication that they are for oral answer in the Welsh Grand Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098B.03
current_num: 98B.03
root_num: 960
articleid: 0098B
articlecurrent_num: 98B
articleroot_num: 239
text:
No more than one notice of a question may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) for the taking of questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098B.04
current_num: 98B.04
root_num: 961
articleid: 0098B
articlecurrent_num: 98B
articleroot_num: 239
text:
On any day so specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)), questions shall be taken at the commencement of the sitting; no such question shall be taken later than half an hour after the commencement of the proceedings thereon; and replies to questions not reached shall be printed with the Official Report of the committee's debates for that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098C.01
current_num: 98C.01
root_num: 963
articleid: 0098C
articlecurrent_num: 98C
articleroot_num: 240
text:
Notices of subjects to be raised in short debates in the Welsh Grand Committee, on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098C.03
current_num: 98C.03
root_num: 965
articleid: 0098C
articlecurrent_num: 98C
articleroot_num: 240
text:
Not more than one notice of a subject may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 98G (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) for the holding of short debates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098C.04
current_num: 98C.04
root_num: 966
articleid: 0098C
articlecurrent_num: 98C
articleroot_num: 240
text:
On any day so specified such debates shall be held at the commencement of the sitting or, if the order under paragraph (1) specifies also the taking of questions on that day, immediately after questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098C.08
current_num: 98C.08
root_num: 970
articleid: 0098C
articlecurrent_num: 98C
articleroot_num: 240
text:
Notice of subjects under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which they are sought to be raised: Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098D.01
current_num: 98D.01
root_num: 971
articleid: 0098D
articlecurrent_num: 98D
articleroot_num: 241
text:
The chairman of the Welsh Grand Committee may permit a Minister of the Crown, whether or not a Member of the House, to make a statement, of which prior notice has been given to him, on a matter relating to Wales, and to answer questions thereon put by members of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098E.01
current_num: 98E.01
root_num: 499
articleid: 0098E
articlecurrent_num: 98E
articleroot_num: 238
text:
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a public bill be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, the Speaker shall declare that the noes have it:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098E.03
current_num: 98E.03
root_num: 501
articleid: 0098E
articlecurrent_num: 98E
articleroot_num: 238
text:
The committee shall report to the House either that it recommends that the bill ought to be read a second time or that it recommends that the bill ought not to be read a second time, and in the latter case it shall have power to state its reasons for so recommending.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098E.04
current_num: 98E.04
root_num: 502
articleid: 0098E
articlecurrent_num: 98E
articleroot_num: 238
text:
Upon a motion being made for the second reading of a bill reported from the committee, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098F.02
current_num: 98F.02
root_num: 373
articleid: 0098F
articlecurrent_num: 98F
articleroot_num: 237
text:
If such a motion be agreed to, the committee shall consider the matter or matters referred to it and shall report only that it has considered the said matter or matters.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.01
current_num: 98G.01
root_num: 978
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown providing (or varying previous provision) for the Welsh Grand Committee-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.02
current_num: 98G.02
root_num: 979
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(a) to sit on specified days at a specified place in Wales, the sitting commencing, and proceedings being interrupted, at such hours as shall be specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.03
current_num: 98G.03
root_num: 980
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(b) to sit on other specified days at Westminster at half-past ten o'clock, or at half-past ten o'clock and between four o'clock and six o'clock;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.04
current_num: 98G.04
root_num: 981
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(c) to take questions under Standing Order No. 98B (Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) on certain of the days specified under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.05
current_num: 98G.05
root_num: 982
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(d) to hold short debates under Standing Order No. 98C (Welsh Grand Committee (short debates)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.06
current_num: 98G.06
root_num: 983
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(e) to consider specified bills which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 98E (Welsh Grand Committee (bills)) on certain of the days so specified; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.07
current_num: 98G.07
root_num: 984
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(f) to consider specified matters which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 98F (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.08
current_num: 98G.08
root_num: 985
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
and the Speaker shall put forthwith the question on such a motion, which may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that nothing in this order shall prevent the committee from considering further at a sitting at Westminster business adjourned at a previous sitting in Wales, nor from considering at a sitting in Wales business adjourned at a sitting at Westminster.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.09
current_num: 98G.09
root_num: 986
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
The provisions of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees), so far as they relate to the naming of a day in respect of business by the Member appointed chairman and the committee's appointment of future days in respect of business not completed at a sitting, shall not apply to the Welsh Grand Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.10
current_num: 98G.10
root_num: 987
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
The chairman shall interrupt proceedings (other than on a motion made under paragraph (5) below) at the time specified in relation to the sitting by an order made under paragraph (1) above or, in the absence of such provision, at one o'clock, subject to paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.11
current_num: 98G.11
root_num: 988
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
At the moment of interruption, proceedings under consideration and not disposed of shall stand adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0098G.12
current_num: 98G.12
root_num: 989
articleid: 0098G
articlecurrent_num: 98G
articleroot_num: 242
text:
After the interruption of proceedings, or on the completion of the business appointed for consideration at that sitting, whichever is the earlier, a motion for the adjournment of the committee may be made by a Minister of the Crown, and, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees) the chairman shall, not later than half an hour after the motion has been made, adjourn the committee without putting any question; and in respect of business taken under this paragraph, the quorum of the committee shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0108A.01
current_num: 108A.01
root_num: 891
articleid: 0108A
articlecurrent_num: 108A
articleroot_num: 228
text:
If any select committee, or sub-committee thereof, considers that the presence at a meeting, or part of a meeting, of that committee to which the public are not admitted of any specified Member of the House not nominated to that committee would obstruct the business of the committee, it shall have power to direct such Member to withdraw forthwith; and the Serjeant at Arms shall act on such instructions as he may receive from the chairman of the committee in pursuance of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-03-11
subarticleid: 0125B.09
current_num: 125B.09
root_num: 782
articleid: 0125B
articlecurrent_num: 125B
articleroot_num: 219
text:
The committee shall have power to make recommendations to the House of Commons Commission or to the Speaker; but any such recommendation whose implementation would incur additional expenditure from the Votes for House of Commons (Administration) or (Works) shall also be considered by the Finance and Services Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1996-12-17
subarticleid: 0121A.10
current_num: 121A.10
root_num: 990
articleid: 0121A
articlecurrent_num: 121A
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees of Privilege or of former Select Committees on Members' Interests and to any documents circulated to any such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 239
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 137
text:
Mr. Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Solicitor General for Scotland, or any of them, being Members of the House, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment other than a motion in the Scottish Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 94A (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Welsh Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 98A (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 99A (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion or an amendment in a European Standing Committee under Standing Order No. 102 (European Standing Committees) or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.01
current_num: 99A.01
root_num: 503
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
There shall be a standing committee called the Northern Ireland Grand Committee, which shall consist of all Members representing constituencies in Northern Ireland, together with not more than twenty-five other Members nominated by the Committee of Selection, which shall have power from time to time to discharge the Members so nominated by it and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.02
current_num: 99A.02
root_num: 991
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
The quorum of the committee shall be ten, subject to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.04
current_num: 99A.04
root_num: 993
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(a) questions tabled in accordance with Standing Order No. 99B (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (questions for oral answer));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.05
current_num: 99A.05
root_num: 994
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(b) short debates held in accordance with Standing Order No. 99C (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (short debates));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.06
current_num: 99A.06
root_num: 995
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(c) ministerial statements proceeded with under Standing Order No. 99D (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (ministerial statements));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.07
current_num: 99A.07
root_num: 996
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(d) bills referred to it for consideration or further consideration in relation to their principle, in accordance with Standing Order No. 99E (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.08
current_num: 99A.08
root_num: 997
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(e) such legislative proposals and other specified matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland as may be referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 99F (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (legislative proposals and other matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.09
current_num: 99A.09
root_num: 998
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(f) instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 99G (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (delegated legislation)); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099A.10
current_num: 99A.10
root_num: 999
articleid: 0099A
articlecurrent_num: 99A
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(g) motions for the adjournment of the committee, made under paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099B.01
current_num: 99B.01
root_num: 1001
articleid: 0099B
articlecurrent_num: 99B
articleroot_num: 244
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee by Northern Ireland Office ministers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099B.02
current_num: 99B.02
root_num: 1002
articleid: 0099B
articlecurrent_num: 99B
articleroot_num: 244
text:
Notices of questions given under this order shall bear an indication that they are for oral answer in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099B.03
current_num: 99B.03
root_num: 1003
articleid: 0099B
articlecurrent_num: 99B
articleroot_num: 244
text:
No more than one notice of a question may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) for the taking of questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099B.04
current_num: 99B.04
root_num: 1004
articleid: 0099B
articlecurrent_num: 99B
articleroot_num: 244
text:
On any day so specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)), questions shall be taken at the commencement of the sitting; no such question shall be taken later than half an hour after the commencement of the proceedings thereon; and replies to questions not reached shall be printed with the Official Report of the committee's debates for that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099B.05
current_num: 99B.05
root_num: 1005
articleid: 0099B
articlecurrent_num: 99B
articleroot_num: 244
text:
Notices of questions under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which an answer is desired, save where otherwise provided by a memorandum under paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 18 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments): Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099C.01
current_num: 99C.01
root_num: 1006
articleid: 0099C
articlecurrent_num: 99C
articleroot_num: 245
text:
Notices of subjects to be raised in short debates in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee, on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099C.02
current_num: 99C.02
root_num: 1007
articleid: 0099C
articlecurrent_num: 99C
articleroot_num: 245
text:
Subjects of which notice is given under paragraph (1) of this order must relate to Northern Ireland.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099C.03
current_num: 99C.03
root_num: 1008
articleid: 0099C
articlecurrent_num: 99C
articleroot_num: 245
text:
Not more than one notice of a subject may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) for the holding of short debates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099C.08
current_num: 99C.08
root_num: 1013
articleid: 0099C
articlecurrent_num: 99C
articleroot_num: 245
text:
Notice of subjects under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which they are sought to be raised: Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099D.01
current_num: 99D.01
root_num: 1014
articleid: 0099D
articlecurrent_num: 99D
articleroot_num: 246
text:
The chairman of the Northern Ireland Grand Committee may permit a Minister of the Crown, whether or not a Member of the House, to make a statement, of which prior notice has been given to him, on a matter relating to Northern Ireland, and to answer questions thereon put by members of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.01
current_num: 99E.01
root_num: 1021
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
On the order being read for the second reading of a public bill relating exclusively to Northern Ireland, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of a private Member's bill, by the Member in charge of the bill), 'That the bill be referred to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee'; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.02
current_num: 99E.02
root_num: 1022
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
A bill so referred to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee shall be considered on a motion, 'That the Committee has considered the bill in relation to its principle'; and, when the committee has considered that question for a total of two and a half hours (whether on one or more than one day), the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the motion, and shall then report accordingly to the House (or shall report that the committee has come to no resolution), without any further question being put thereon: Provided that a Minister of the Crown may, immediately before the motion 'That the Committee has considered the bill in relation to its principle' is made, make without notice a motion to extend the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.03
current_num: 99E.03
root_num: 1023
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
A bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (2) above shall be ordered to be read a second time on a future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.04
current_num: 99E.04
root_num: 1024
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
When a motion shall have been made for the second reading of a bill to which paragraph (3) above applies, the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.05
current_num: 99E.05
root_num: 1025
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
At the conclusion of proceedings on consideration on report of a bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (2) above, or on the order being read for the third reading of such a bill, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of a private Member's bill by the Member in charge of the bill), 'That the Bill be referred again to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee'; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.06
current_num: 99E.06
root_num: 1026
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
A bill so referred again to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee shall be considered on a motion, 'That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle'; and, when the committee has considered that question for a total of one and a half hours (whether on one or more than one day), the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the motion, and shall then report accordingly to the House (or shall report that the committee has come to no resolution), without any further question being put thereon: Provided that a Minister of the Crown may, immediately before the motion 'That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle' is made, make without notice a motion to extend the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.07
current_num: 99E.07
root_num: 1027
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
A bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (6) above shall be ordered to be read the third time on a future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099E.08
current_num: 99E.08
root_num: 1028
articleid: 0099E
articlecurrent_num: 99E
articleroot_num: 247
text:
When a motion shall have been made for the third reading of a bill to which paragraph (7) above applies, the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099F.01
current_num: 99F.01
root_num: 504
articleid: 0099F
articlecurrent_num: 99F
articleroot_num: 243
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business to the effect that a legislative proposal or other specified matter relating exclusively to Northern Ireland be referred to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee for its consideration, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099F.02
current_num: 99F.02
root_num: 505
articleid: 0099F
articlecurrent_num: 99F
articleroot_num: 243
text:
If such a motion be agreed to, the committee shall consider the legislative proposal or matter referred to it and shall report only that it has considered the said legislative proposal or matter.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099F.03
current_num: 99F.03
root_num: 1029
articleid: 0099F
articlecurrent_num: 99F
articleroot_num: 243
text:
In this order and in Standing Orders No. 99A (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)) and No. 99H (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) 'a legislative proposal' means a proposal for a draft Order in Council relating exclusively to Northern Ireland.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099G.02
current_num: 99G.02
root_num: 1031
articleid: 0099G
articlecurrent_num: 99G
articleroot_num: 248
text:
(a) a Member has given notice of a motion for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that a statutory instrument be annulled, or of a motion of a similar character relating to a statutory instrument, or to any other instrument (whether or not in draft) which may be subject to proceedings in the House in pursuance of a statute, or of a motion that the House takes note of a statutory instrument, or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099G.04
current_num: 99G.04
root_num: 1033
articleid: 0099G
articlecurrent_num: 99G
articleroot_num: 248
text:
a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown, 'That the instrument be referred to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee'; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099G.05
current_num: 99G.05
root_num: 1034
articleid: 0099G
articlecurrent_num: 99G
articleroot_num: 248
text:
The committee shall consider each instrument referred to it on a motion, 'That the Committee has considered the instrument'; and the chairman shall put any question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on the motion, if not previously disposed of, not later than two and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings thereon; and shall thereupon report the instrument to the House without any further question being put: Provided that a Minister of the Crown may, immediately before the motion 'That the Committee has considered the instrument' is made, make without notice a motion to extend to three hours the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099G.06
current_num: 99G.06
root_num: 1035
articleid: 0099G
articlecurrent_num: 99G
articleroot_num: 248
text:
If any motion is made in the House of the kind specified in paragraph 1(a) or 1(b) of this order, in relation to any instrument in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (2) of this order, the Speaker shall put forthwith the question thereon; which may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.01
current_num: 99H.01
root_num: 1036
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown providing (or varying previous provision) for the Northern Ireland Grand Committee-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.02
current_num: 99H.02
root_num: 1037
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(a) to sit on not more than two specified days in Northern Ireland (at places to be named by the Member appointed chairman), the sitting commencing, and proceedings being interrupted, at such hours as shall be specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.04
current_num: 99H.04
root_num: 1039
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(c) to take questions under Standing Order No. 99B (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) on certain of the days specified under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.05
current_num: 99H.05
root_num: 1040
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(d) to hold short debates under Standing Order No. 99C (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (short debates)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.06
current_num: 99H.06
root_num: 1041
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(e) to consider specified bills which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 99E (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.07
current_num: 99H.07
root_num: 1042
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(f) to consider legislative proposals and other specified matters which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 99F (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (legislative proposals and other matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.08
current_num: 99H.08
root_num: 1043
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(g) to consider specified instruments (whether or not in draft) which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 99G (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (delegated legislation)) on certain of the days so specified; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.09
current_num: 99H.09
root_num: 1044
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(h) to consider motions for the adjournment of the committee made under paragraph (5) below on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.10
current_num: 99H.10
root_num: 1045
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
and the Speaker shall put forthwith the question on such a motion, which may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that nothing in this order shall prevent the committee from considering further at a sitting at Westminster business adjourned at a previous sitting in Northern Ireland, nor from considering at a sitting in Northern Ireland business adjourned at a sitting at Westminster.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.11
current_num: 99H.11
root_num: 1046
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
The provisions of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees), so far as they relate to the naming of a day in respect of business by the Member appointed chairman and the committee's appointment of future days in respect of business not completed at a sitting, shall not apply to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 0099H.14
current_num: 99H.14
root_num: 1049
articleid: 0099H
articlecurrent_num: 99H
articleroot_num: 249
text:
On a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) above, after the interruption of proceedings, or on the completion of the business appointed for consideration at that sitting, whichever is the earlier, a motion for the adjournment of the committee may be made by a Minister of the Crown, and, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees) the chairman shall, not later than half an hour after the motion has been made, adjourn the committee without putting any question; and in respect of business taken under this paragraph, the quorum of the committee shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-19
subarticleid: 01010.05
current_num: 101.05
root_num: 919
articleid: 01010
articlecurrent_num: 101
articleroot_num: 185
text:
(b) the instrument is referred to the Scottish Grand Committee or to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 122
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 172
text:
The Speaker shall nominate, for every session, not fewer than ten Members to act as temporary chairmen of committees when requested by the Chairman of Ways and Means. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00090.02
current_num: 9.02
root_num: 389
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday until all the questions asked at the commencement of public business shall have been disposed of, and, save as provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), no Member other than a Minister of the Crown may make such a motion on any day before the orders of the day or notices of motions shall have been entered upon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00090.03
current_num: 9.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At ten o'clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall, save as otherwise provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and report progress and ask leave to sit again; and if a motion has been made for the adjournment of the House (unless that motion is included in a motion to be made after the interruption of business under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business)), or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such motion shall lapse.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00090.04
current_num: 9.04
root_num: 104
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
On the interruption of business the closure may be claimed; and if moved, or if proceedings under Standing Order No. 36 (Closure of debate) be then in progress, the Speaker or the chairman shall not leave the chair until the questions consequent thereon and any further question, as provided in Standing Order No. 36 (Closure of debate), have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00090.06
current_num: 9.06
root_num: 105
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at ten o'clock has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken, save as provided in Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00090.07
current_num: 9.07
root_num: 204
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution or by the Speaker in pursuance of Standing Order No. 46 (Power of the Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting): Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been made at or after ten o'clock in the evening the Speaker shall, after the expiration of half an hour after that motion has been made, adjourn the House without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00100.06
current_num: 10.06
root_num: 897
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 231
text:
A motion for the adjournment of the House not disposed of at two o'clock shall lapse and the sitting shall be suspended until half-past two o'clock; the House will then proceed with private business, motions for unopposed returns and questions; no subsequent motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of public business have been disposed of; and, save as provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), no Member other than a Minister of the Crown may make such a motion before the orders of the day or notices of motions shall have been entered upon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00110.02
current_num: 11.02
root_num: 316
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 27
text:
Standing Orders No. 9 (Sittings of the House) and No. 15 (Exempted business) shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00110.04
current_num: 11.04
root_num: 1051
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 27
text:
(b) the substitution of references to half-past two o'clock for references to ten o'clock in relation to the interruption of business; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00110.05
current_num: 11.05
root_num: 1052
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 27
text:
(c) the substitution of reference to half-past three o'clock for reference to eleven o'clock in relation to proceedings on nomination of members of departmental select committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00110.06
current_num: 11.06
root_num: 317
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 27
text:
In the application of Standing Order No. 17 (Delegated legislation (negative procedure)) to the sittings on Fridays there shall be substituted references to four o'clock for references to half-past eleven o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00120.04
current_num: 12.04
root_num: 901
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
articleroot_num: 232
text:
Unless the House shall have resolved to adjourn otherwise than from the previous Thursday to the following Monday, the Fridays so appointed shall be treated as sitting days for the purpose of calculating any period under any order of the House and for the purposes of paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments) and of Standing Order No. 64 (Notices of amendments, &c., to bills); and on such Fridays-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.07
current_num: 14.07
root_num: 680
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(ii) be set down for consideration at seven o'clock and, except on days on which private business has been set down for consideration under the provisions of paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business), shall be entered upon at that time:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.08
current_num: 14.08
root_num: 681
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
Provided that on days on which business stands over until seven o'clock under the provisions of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) proceedings under this sub-paragraph shall not be entered upon until such business has been disposed of, and may then be proceeded with for three hours, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.10
current_num: 14.10
root_num: 318
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
Private Members' bills shall have precedence over government business on thirteen Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.11
current_num: 14.11
root_num: 111
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
On and after the eighth Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence, such bills shall be arranged on the order paper in the following order: consideration of Lords amendments, third readings, consideration of reports not already entered upon, adjourned proceedings on consideration, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.13
current_num: 14.13
root_num: 323
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
Until after the fifth Wednesday on which the House shall sit during the session, no private Member shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.14
current_num: 14.14
root_num: 1053
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(a) give notice of a motion for leave to bring in a bill under Standing Order No. 23 (Motions for leave to bring in bills and nomination of select committees at commencement of public business); or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.15
current_num: 14.15
root_num: 1054
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(b) give notice for presenting a bill under Standing Order No. 57 (Presentation and first reading); or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.16
current_num: 14.16
root_num: 1055
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(c) inform the Clerks at the Table of his intention to take charge of a bill which has been brought from the Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00140.17
current_num: 14.17
root_num: 788
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
A private Member's bill to which the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (6) of Standing Order No. 97 (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) have applied, and which has been considered by a Scottish Standing Committee (or by a special standing committee), shall not be set down for consideration on report so as to have precedence over any private Member's bill so set down which was read a second time on a day preceding that on which the bill was reported from the Scottish Grand Committee under paragraph (3) of that Standing Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00150.04
current_num: 15.04
root_num: 744
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
(c) proceedings on a motion such as is referred to in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select committees) for the nomination or discharge of members of select committees appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) which has been opposed at or after the interruption of business on a preceding day: Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion shall be put at eleven o'clock or one hour after the commencement of those proceedings, whichever is the later.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00150.09
current_num: 15.09
root_num: 304
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
or in a form combining any or all of these effects in respect of different items of business, the motion shall stand over and may not be made until after the interruption of business and shall then be proceeded with, though opposed, in accordance with the following paragraphs of this order provided that on any day on which the Speaker is directed to put questions at ten o'clock pursuant to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 54 (Consideration of estimates), any such motion shall stand over until those questions have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00150.11
current_num: 15.11
root_num: 306
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
If the business interrupted is not included in the business specified in the motion or in paragraph (1) of this order, the Speaker shall call upon the Minister to move his motion at the conclusion of any proceedings arising on the interruption of business under the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House) but before the resumption of any proceedings postponed under Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business) or No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00150.14
current_num: 15.14
root_num: 315
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
(b) when proceedings on such business have been postponed under the provisions of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), such business may be proceeded with after the specified hour for a further period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings upon the motion under the said Standing Order No. 24; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 302
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 229
text:
The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings under any Act of Parliament or on European Community documents not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of such proceedings, subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 17 (Delegated legislation (negative procedure)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00170.09
current_num: 17.09
root_num: 285
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 153
text:
(b) any motion that, or for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that, any other document be annulled, or cease to be in force, or be not made or be disapproved, or words to that effect.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 851
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 226
text:
If the Deregulation Committee has reported under paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 141 (Deregulation Committee) that a draft order laid before the House under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 should be approved and a motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to that effect, the question thereon shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00200.06
current_num: 20.06
root_num: 308
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 158
text:
On any day specified under paragraph (5) of this order at seven o'clock or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) has been disposed of, the business set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be entered upon and may be proceeded with subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 131
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 216
text:
Questions shall be taken on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, after private business and motions for unopposed returns have been disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00220.07
current_num: 22.07
root_num: 720
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
When it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purpose of calculating the period in paragraph (5) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00220.08
current_num: 22.08
root_num: 721
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
When it is proposed that the House should adjourn for a period of more than three days the Speaker shall cause to have printed and circulated with the Vote a memorandum superseding the provisions of paragraphs (5) and (6) of this order, provided that each day named as the earliest on which notice of a question for oral answer may be given shall as far as practicable fall on the same day of the week as that on which the question is to be answered; and also setting out the latest day for notice of questions for oral answer on each of the first two sitting days following that adjournment, provided that each such day shall not be fewer than two days (excluding Saturday and Sunday) before the day for answer.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00230.07
current_num: 23.07
root_num: 702
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 94
text:
No notice may be given under this order for a day on which Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer has declared his intention of opening his Budget; but


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00240.07
current_num: 24.07
root_num: 209
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 77
text:
Proceedings on any business postponed at seven o'clock under this order may be resumed at the conclusion of proceedings on the aforesaid motion for the adjournment of the House unless such motion is agreed to, shall not be interrupted, except as provided in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), may be proceeded with for such further period of time as would have been permissible under any orders of the House at seven o'clock had no such motion then been made, and shall not be subject to the provisions of any such orders with regard to the disposal of the business until the conclusion of the said period.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00310.03
current_num: 31.03
root_num: 546
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 163
text:
(2) on the twenty days allotted under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 14 (Arrangement of public business),


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00370.01
current_num: 37.01
root_num: 100
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 88
text:
If a division be held upon a question for the closure of debate under Standing Order No. 36 (Closure of debate) or for the proposal of the question under Standing Order No. 29 (Powers of chair to propose question), that question shall not be decided in the affirmative unless it appears by the numbers declared from the chair that not fewer than one hundred Members voted in the majority in support of the motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 96
text:
The Speaker, or the chairman, shall order any Member or Members whose conduct is grossly disorderly to withdraw immediately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting; and the Serjeant at Arms shall act on such orders as he may receive from the chair in pursuance of this order. But if on any occasion the Speaker, or the chairman, deems that her powers under the previous provisions of this order are inadequate, she may name such Member or Members, in which event the same procedure shall be followed as is prescribed by Standing Order No. 44 (Order in debate).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00450.01
current_num: 45.01
root_num: 116
articleid: 00450
articlecurrent_num: 45
articleroot_num: 143
text:
Members who are ordered to withdraw under Standing Order No. 43 (Disorderly conduct) or who are suspended from the service of the House under Standing Order No. 44 (Order in debate) shall forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the House, subject, however, in the case of such suspended Members, to the provisions of paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 44 (Order in debate).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00540.01
current_num: 54.01
root_num: 146
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Three days, other than Fridays, before 5th August, shall be allotted in each session for the consideration of estimates set down under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 145 (Liaison Committee); and not more than one day so allotted may be taken in the form of two half days, not being Fridays.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00540.08
current_num: 54.08
root_num: 689
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Provided that on days on which business stands over until seven o'clock under the provisions of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) or has been set down for that hour under the provisions of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business) proceedings under this sub-paragraph shall not be entered upon until such business has been disposed of and may then be proceeded with for three hours, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00580.01
current_num: 58.01
root_num: 909
articleid: 00580
articlecurrent_num: 58
articleroot_num: 233
text:
In this order 'a consolidation bill' means a public bill which falls to be considered by the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 140 (Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00590.01
current_num: 59.01
root_num: 913
articleid: 00590
articlecurrent_num: 59
articleroot_num: 234
text:
Any public bill, the main purpose of which is to give effect to proposals contained in a report by either of the Law Commissions, other than a private Member's bill or a bill to which Standing Order No. 58 (Consolidation bills) applies, shall, when it is set down for second reading, stand referred to a second reading committee, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.01
current_num: 60.01
root_num: 1056
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
In this order 'a tax simplification bill' means a bill which has been presented, or brought in upon an order of the House, by a Minister of the Crown and which has been ordered to be proceeded with as such a bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.02
current_num: 60.02
root_num: 1057
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a specified bill be so proceeded with, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.03
current_num: 60.03
root_num: 1058
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A tax simplification bill shall, upon the making of an order under paragraph (2) above, stand referred to a second reading committee unless the House otherwise orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.04
current_num: 60.04
root_num: 1059
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a tax simplification bill shall no longer stand referred to a second reading committee, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.05
current_num: 60.05
root_num: 1060
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
The provisions of paragraphs (3) to (6) of Standing Order No. 90 (Second reading committees) shall apply to any bill referred to a second reading committee under paragraph (3) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.06
current_num: 60.06
root_num: 1061
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A tax simplification bill shall, upon its being read a second time, stand committed to the Joint Committee on Tax Simplification Bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.07
current_num: 60.07
root_num: 1062
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A bill which has been reported from the said Joint Committee shall stand re-committed to a committee of the whole House unless the House otherwise orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00600.08
current_num: 60.08
root_num: 1063
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
If a motion that the committee of the whole House be discharged from considering a tax simplification bill is made by a Minister of the Crown immediately after the order of the day has been read for the House to resolve itself into a committee on the bill, the motion shall not require notice and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed; and if such question is agreed to the bill shall be ordered to be read the third time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 167
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 115
text:
When a public bill (other than a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, or a tax simplification bill, or a bill for confirming a provisional order) has been read a second time, it shall stand committed to a standing committee unless the House otherwise order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 218
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 132
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into a committee on a bill, the Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee, unless notice of an instruction to such committee has been given, when such instruction shall be first disposed of, or unless the committee is discharged in pursuance of paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 60 (Tax simplification bills).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 96
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 85
text:
In a committee on a bill any preamble shall stand postponed until after the consideration of the clauses and of any schedules.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 55
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 51
text:
When a Member has brought up a clause or schedule in committee on a bill or on consideration of a bill on report, it shall be read the first time without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00730.01
current_num: 73.01
root_num: 123
articleid: 00730
articlecurrent_num: 73
articleroot_num: 103
text:
Save as provided in Standing Order No. 92 (Consideration on report of certain bills by a standing committee) every bill committed to and reported from a standing committee, whether amended or not, shall be considered on report by the House, and the provisions of Standing Order No. 72 (Consideration of bill as amended in committee of whole House) shall apply to such consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00760.01
current_num: 76.01
root_num: 171
articleid: 00760
articlecurrent_num: 76
articleroot_num: 144
text:
When a bill has been committed to a standing committee, or has been so committed in respect of some of its provisions, then, on consideration on report of the bill or such of its provisions as were so committed, the rule against speaking more than once shall not apply to the Member in charge of the bill or to the mover of any amendment or new clause or schedule in respect of that amendment or clause or schedule.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00780.03
current_num: 78.03
root_num: 588
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 52
text:
If the Speaker is satisfied that a Lords amendment imposes a charge upon the public revenue such as is required to be authorised by resolution of the House under Standing Order No. 49 (Certain proceedings relating to public money) and that such charge has not been so authorised, on reaching that amendment, the Speaker shall declare that she is so satisfied and the amendment shall be deemed to have been disagreed to and shall be so recorded in the Journal.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00800.02
current_num: 80.02
root_num: 477
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 183
text:
(a) it is so framed that no charge upon the people or upon public funds, unless it be such a charge as is defined in Standing Order No. 79 (Pecuniary penalties), is imposed or altered; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00840.01
current_num: 84.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees), as many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00840.02
current_num: 84.02
root_num: 173
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 101 (Scottish Standing Committees), the bills committed and instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by the Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00840.03
current_num: 84.03
root_num: 174
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 100
text:
In all but one of the standing committees to which bills other than bills provided for in Standing Order No. 101 (Scottish Standing Committees) are committed or referred government bills shall have precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 239
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 137
text:
Mr. Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Solicitor General for Scotland, or any of them, being Members of the House, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment other than a motion in the Scottish Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 93 (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Welsh Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 102 (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 109 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion or an amendment in a European Standing Committee under Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00880.03
current_num: 88.03
root_num: 227
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 135
text:
If a standing committee is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without putting any question at one o'clock, save as provided in Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)), Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) and Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)); Provided that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00880.05
current_num: 88.05
root_num: 229
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 135
text:
(ii) if proceedings under Standing Order No. 36 (Closure of debate) be in progress at the time when the chairman is required to adjourn the committee under this paragraph, he shall not adjourn the committee until the question for the closure of debate, the question or questions consequent thereon and on any further motion as provided in that Standing Order, have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00890.01
current_num: 89.01
root_num: 446
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
Except as provided in Standing Order No. 93 (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)), Standing Order No. 102 (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)), Standing Order No. 109 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)), Standing Order No. 117 (Standing Committee on Regional Affairs) and Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) the quorum of a standing committee shall be seventeen or one third of the number of its members excluding the chairman, whichever is the less; and in calculating the quorum fractions shall be counted as one.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00890.03
current_num: 89.03
root_num: 448
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(a) Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed or referred to a standing committee, or of a motion relative to a European Community document or documents or an amendment thereto given under Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) shall stand referred to the committee, and the chairman shall have the like powers as are given to the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means and either Deputy Chairman respectively by Standing Order No. 32 (Selection of amendments).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00890.04
current_num: 89.04
root_num: 449
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(b) Standing Orders No. 29 (Powers of chair to propose question), No. 36 (Closure of debate) and No. 37 (Majority for closure or for proposal of question) shall apply to standing committees, except that the number necessary to render the majority effective for the closure or for the proposal of the question shall be the number prescribed as the quorum by paragraph (1) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00890.05
current_num: 89.05
root_num: 450
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(c) The chairman of a standing committee shall have the like powers as are given to a chairman of a committee of the whole House under the following Standing Orders: No. 35 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), No. 42 (Irrelevance or repetition), and No. 68 (Debate on clause or schedule standing part).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00890.06
current_num: 89.06
root_num: 175
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(d) The following Standing Orders shall apply to standing committees: No. 124 (Quorum of select committee), No. 128 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), and No. 129 (Minutes of proceedings to be laid on the Table).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00900.02
current_num: 90.02
root_num: 548
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 164
text:
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may with the leave of the House be made by the Member in charge of a private Member's bill at the commencement of public business on any day when private Members' bills have precedence under the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 (Arrangement of public business), that the said bill be referred to a second reading committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith. If such a motion be agreed to, any order that the said bill be read a second time which stands on the paper for that or any subsequent day shall be discharged. No such motion shall be made before the eighth Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence and no such notice shall be given until the bill has been printed and delivered to the Vote Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00910.01
current_num: 91.01
root_num: 692
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 211
text:
A special standing committee to which a bill has been committed shall have power, during a period not exceeding 28 days (excluding periods when the House is adjourned for more than two days) from the committal of the bill, to send for persons, papers and records, and, for this purpose, to hold up to four morning sittings of not more than three hours each. At not more than three sittings oral evidence may be given and, unless the committee otherwise orders, all such evidence shall be given in public. Oral evidence shall be printed in the official report of the committee's debates together with such written evidence as the committee may order to be so printed. Provided that, in the case of bills certified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 97 (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) and committed pursuant to paragraph (5) thereof to a special standing committee, the three sittings at which oral evidence may be given may be held in Scotland, in which case those sittings need not be held in the morning.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00910.03
current_num: 91.03
root_num: 694
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 211
text:
Except as provided in the foregoing paragraphs, the standing orders relating to standing committees and Standing Orders No. 127 (Withdrawal of documents before select committee), No. 131 (Entry of questions asked), No. 135 (Witnesses and evidence (select committees)) and No. 136 (Publication of evidence (select committees)) shall apply to any special standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.01
current_num: 93.01
root_num: 286
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
There shall be a standing committee called the Scottish Grand Committee, which shall consist of all Members representing Scottish constituencies; and of which (subject to paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings))) the quorum shall be ten.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.03
current_num: 93.03
root_num: 790
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(a) questions tabled in accordance with Standing Order No. 94 (Scottish Grand Committee (questions for oral answer));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.04
current_num: 93.04
root_num: 791
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(b) short debates held in accordance with Standing Order No. 95 (Scottish Grand Committee (short debates));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.05
current_num: 93.05
root_num: 792
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(c) ministerial statements proceeded with in accordance with Standing Order No. 96 (Scottish Grand Committee (ministerial statements));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.06
current_num: 93.06
root_num: 287
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(d) bills referred to it for consideration or further consideration in relation to their principle, in accordance with Standing Order No. 97 (Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.07
current_num: 93.07
root_num: 793
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(e) motions relating to instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 98 (Scottish Grand Committee (delegated legislation));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.08
current_num: 93.08
root_num: 794
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(f) motions for the adjournment of the committee, notice of which has been given in accordance with Standing Order No. 99 (Scottish Grand Committee (substantive motions for the adjournment)); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00930.09
current_num: 93.09
root_num: 795
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 176
text:
(g) motions for the adjournment of the committee made under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00940.01
current_num: 94.01
root_num: 796
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 220
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Scottish Grand Committee by Scottish Office ministers or Scottish law officers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00940.03
current_num: 94.03
root_num: 798
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 220
text:
No more than one notice of a question may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)) for the taking of questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00940.04
current_num: 94.04
root_num: 799
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 220
text:
On any day so specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)), questions shall be taken at the commencement of the sitting; no question shall be taken later than three-quarters of an hour after the commencement of the proceedings thereon; and replies to questions not reached shall be printed with the official report of the committee's debates for that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00940.05
current_num: 94.05
root_num: 800
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 220
text:
Notices of questions under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which an answer is desired save where otherwise provided by a memorandum under paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments): Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00950.01
current_num: 95.01
root_num: 801
articleid: 00950
articlecurrent_num: 95
articleroot_num: 221
text:
Notices of subjects to be raised in short debates in the Scottish Grand Committee, on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00950.03
current_num: 95.03
root_num: 803
articleid: 00950
articlecurrent_num: 95
articleroot_num: 221
text:
Not more than one notice of a subject may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)) for the holding of short debates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00960.03
current_num: 96.03
root_num: 811
articleid: 00960
articlecurrent_num: 96
articleroot_num: 222
text:
(a) facilitating the questioning by members of the committee of the Minister of the Crown about a matter relating to his official responsibilities so far as they relate to Scotland, which, in the case of a Scottish law officer, shall be as provided in the second column of the relevant sub-paragraph of paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), in which case proceedings under this order shall be brought to a conclusion either at an hour appointed by an order of the committee, for which a motion may be made without notice by a member of the government immediately before the commencement of such proceedings, on which motion the question shall be put forthwith, or, if no such motion is made, not later than three-quarters of an hour after their commencement; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.01
current_num: 97.01
root_num: 247
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
After any public bill has been first printed, the Speaker shall, if of the opinion that its provisions relate exclusively to Scotland, give a certificate to that effect: Provided that a certificate shall not be withheld by reason only that the bill-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.02
current_num: 97.02
root_num: 1064
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
(a) makes minor consequential amendments of enactments which extend to England and Wales or Northern Ireland; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.03
current_num: 97.03
root_num: 1065
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
(b) amends Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 or Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.04
current_num: 97.04
root_num: 248
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
On the order being read for the second reading of a bill so certified, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of a private Member's bill, by the Member in charge of the bill), 'That the bill be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee'; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.05
current_num: 97.05
root_num: 249
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
A bill so referred to the Scottish Grand Committee shall be considered on a motion, 'That the Committee has considered the bill in relation to its principle'; and, when the committee has considered that question for a total of two and half hours (whether on one or more than one day), the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the motion, and shall then report accordingly to the House (or shall report that the committee has come to no resolution), without any further question being put thereon: Provided that a Minister of the Crown may, immediately before the motion 'That the Committee has considered the bill in relation to its principle', is made, make without notice a motion to extend the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.07
current_num: 97.07
root_num: 250
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
On the order being read for the second reading of a bill to which paragraph (4) above applies, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or, in the case of a private Member's bill, by the Member in charge of the bill), 'That the bill be committed to a Scottish Standing Committee (or to a special standing committee)'; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.09
current_num: 97.09
root_num: 947
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
At the conclusion of proceedings on consideration on report of a bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (3) above, or on the order being read for the third reading of such a bill, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of a private Member's bill, by the Member in charge of the bill), "That the Bill be referred again to the Scottish Grand Committee"; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00970.10
current_num: 97.10
root_num: 948
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
A bill so referred again to the Scottish Grand Committee shall be considered on a motion, "That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle"; and, when the committee has considered that question for a total of one and a half hours (whether on one or more than one day), the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the motion, and shall then report accordingly to the House (or shall report that the committee has come to no resolution), without any further question being put thereon: Provided that a Minister of the Crown may, immediately before the motion "That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle" is made, make without notice a motion to extend the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00980.04
current_num: 98.04
root_num: 822
articleid: 00980
articlecurrent_num: 98
articleroot_num: 223
text:
a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown, 'That the instrument be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee'; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00990.01
current_num: 99.01
root_num: 825
articleid: 00990
articlecurrent_num: 99
articleroot_num: 224
text:
On each of the days specified in an order of the House under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)) for the consideration of motions for the adjournment of the Scottish Grand Committee, such motions of which notice has been given in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below shall have precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 00990.12
current_num: 99.12
root_num: 836
articleid: 00990
articlecurrent_num: 99
articleroot_num: 224
text:
Provided that a day specified in an order of the House under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)) on which business is to be interrupted at or after half-past three o'clock shall, if no business other than that to which this order applies is set down for consideration on that day, be deemed to be two days for the purposes of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.01
current_num: 100.01
root_num: 838
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown providing (or varying previous provision) for the Scottish Grand Committee-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.02
current_num: 100.02
root_num: 839
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
(a) to sit on specified days in Scotland (or at specified places in Scotland), the sitting commencing, and proceedings being interrupted, at such hours as may be specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.04
current_num: 100.04
root_num: 841
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
(c) to take questions under Standing Order No. 94 (Scottish Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) on certain of the days specified under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.05
current_num: 100.05
root_num: 842
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
(d) to hold short debates under Standing Order No. 95 (Scottish Grand Committee (short debates)) on certain of the days so specified; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.06
current_num: 100.06
root_num: 843
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
(e) to consider substantive motions for the adjournment of the committee under Standing Order No. 99 (Scottish Grand Committee (substantive motions for the adjournment)) on not more than twelve of the days so specified.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.09
current_num: 100.09
root_num: 846
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
Other than as provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 99 (Scottish Grand Committee (substantive motions for the adjournment)), the government shall determine the precedence of the business appointed for consideration at any sitting of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01000.11
current_num: 100.11
root_num: 848
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
At the moment of interruption, proceedings under consideration and not disposed of shall stand adjourned (except substantive motions for the adjournment of the committee under Standing Order No. 99 (Scottish Grand Committee (substantive motions for the adjournment)) which shall lapse).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01020.02
current_num: 102.02
root_num: 951
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 167
text:
The quorum of the committee shall be seven, subject to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01020.04
current_num: 102.04
root_num: 953
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(a) questions tabled in accordance with Standing Order No. 103 (Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01020.05
current_num: 102.05
root_num: 954
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(b) short debates held in accordance with Standing Order No. 104 (Welsh Grand Committee (short debates));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01020.06
current_num: 102.06
root_num: 955
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(c) ministerial statements proceeded with under Standing Order No. 105 (Welsh Grand Committee (ministerial statements));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01020.08
current_num: 102.08
root_num: 497
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(e) such specified matters relating exclusively to Wales as may be referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 107 (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales)); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01020.09
current_num: 102.09
root_num: 956
articleid: 01020
articlecurrent_num: 102
articleroot_num: 167
text:
(f) motions for the adjournment of the committee, made under paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01030.01
current_num: 103.01
root_num: 958
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 239
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Welsh Grand Committee by Welsh Office ministers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01030.03
current_num: 103.03
root_num: 960
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 239
text:
No more than one notice of a question may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) for the taking of questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01030.04
current_num: 103.04
root_num: 961
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 239
text:
On any day so specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)), questions shall be taken at the commencement of the sitting; no such question shall be taken later than half an hour after the commencement of the proceedings thereon; and replies to questions not reached shall be printed with the Official Report of the committee's debates for that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01030.05
current_num: 103.05
root_num: 962
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 239
text:
Notices of questions under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which an answer is desired, save where otherwise provided by a memorandum under paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments): Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01040.01
current_num: 104.01
root_num: 963
articleid: 01040
articlecurrent_num: 104
articleroot_num: 240
text:
Notices of subjects to be raised in short debates in the Welsh Grand Committee, on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01040.03
current_num: 104.03
root_num: 965
articleid: 01040
articlecurrent_num: 104
articleroot_num: 240
text:
Not more than one notice of a subject may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) for the holding of short debates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01080.02
current_num: 108.02
root_num: 979
articleid: 01080
articlecurrent_num: 108
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(a) to sit on specified days in Wales (or at specified places in Wales), the sitting commencing, and proceedings being interrupted, at such hours as shall be specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01080.04
current_num: 108.04
root_num: 981
articleid: 01080
articlecurrent_num: 108
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(c) to take questions under Standing Order No. 103 (Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) on certain of the days specified under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01080.05
current_num: 108.05
root_num: 982
articleid: 01080
articlecurrent_num: 108
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(d) to hold short debates under Standing Order No. 104 (Welsh Grand Committee (short debates)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01080.06
current_num: 108.06
root_num: 983
articleid: 01080
articlecurrent_num: 108
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(e) to consider specified bills which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 106 (Welsh Grand Committee (bills)) on certain of the days so specified; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01080.07
current_num: 108.07
root_num: 984
articleid: 01080
articlecurrent_num: 108
articleroot_num: 242
text:
(f) to consider specified matters which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 107 (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.02
current_num: 109.02
root_num: 991
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
The quorum of the committee shall be ten, subject to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.04
current_num: 109.04
root_num: 993
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(a) questions tabled in accordance with Standing Order No. 110 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (questions for oral answer));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.05
current_num: 109.05
root_num: 994
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(b) short debates held in accordance with Standing Order No. 111 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (short debates));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.06
current_num: 109.06
root_num: 995
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(c) ministerial statements proceeded with under Standing Order No. 112 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (ministerial statements));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.07
current_num: 109.07
root_num: 996
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(d) bills referred to it for consideration or further consideration in relation to their principle, in accordance with Standing Order No. 113 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.08
current_num: 109.08
root_num: 997
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(e) such legislative proposals and other specified matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland as may be referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 114 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (legislative proposals and other matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.09
current_num: 109.09
root_num: 998
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(f) instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to it in accordance with Standing Order No. 115 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (delegated legislation)); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01090.10
current_num: 109.10
root_num: 999
articleid: 01090
articlecurrent_num: 109
articleroot_num: 188
text:
(g) motions for the adjournment of the committee, made under paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01100.01
current_num: 110.01
root_num: 1001
articleid: 01100
articlecurrent_num: 110
articleroot_num: 244
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee by Northern Ireland Office ministers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01100.03
current_num: 110.03
root_num: 1003
articleid: 01100
articlecurrent_num: 110
articleroot_num: 244
text:
No more than one notice of a question may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) for the taking of questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01100.04
current_num: 110.04
root_num: 1004
articleid: 01100
articlecurrent_num: 110
articleroot_num: 244
text:
On any day so specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)), questions shall be taken at the commencement of the sitting; no such question shall be taken later than half an hour after the commencement of the proceedings thereon; and replies to questions not reached shall be printed with the Official Report of the committee's debates for that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01110.01
current_num: 111.01
root_num: 1006
articleid: 01110
articlecurrent_num: 111
articleroot_num: 245
text:
Notices of subjects to be raised in short debates in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee, on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01110.03
current_num: 111.03
root_num: 1008
articleid: 01110
articlecurrent_num: 111
articleroot_num: 245
text:
Not more than one notice of a subject may be given under this order by any member of the committee for each day specified under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) for the holding of short debates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01140.03
current_num: 114.03
root_num: 1029
articleid: 01140
articlecurrent_num: 114
articleroot_num: 243
text:
In this order and in Standing Orders No. 109 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)) and No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) 'a legislative proposal' means a proposal for a draft Order in Council relating exclusively to Northern Ireland.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01160.04
current_num: 116.04
root_num: 1039
articleid: 01160
articlecurrent_num: 116
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(c) to take questions under Standing Order No. 110 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) on certain of the days specified under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01160.05
current_num: 116.05
root_num: 1040
articleid: 01160
articlecurrent_num: 116
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(d) to hold short debates under Standing Order No. 111 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (short debates)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01160.06
current_num: 116.06
root_num: 1041
articleid: 01160
articlecurrent_num: 116
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(e) to consider specified bills which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 113 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01160.07
current_num: 116.07
root_num: 1042
articleid: 01160
articlecurrent_num: 116
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(f) to consider legislative proposals and other specified matters which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 114 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (legislative proposals and other matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland)) on certain of the days so specified;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01160.08
current_num: 116.08
root_num: 1043
articleid: 01160
articlecurrent_num: 116
articleroot_num: 249
text:
(g) to consider specified instruments (whether or not in draft) which shall have been referred to it under Standing Order No. 115 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (delegated legislation)) on certain of the days so specified; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01190.01
current_num: 119.01
root_num: 564
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
There shall be two standing committees, called European Standing Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Community documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (Select Committee on European Legislation) as may be recommended by the Select Committee on European Legislation for further consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01210.02
current_num: 121.02
root_num: 576
articleid: 01210
articlecurrent_num: 121
articleroot_num: 40
text:
No motion shall be made for the nomination of members of select committees appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) or under Standing Order No. 142 (Domestic Committees), or for their discharge, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01390.06
current_num: 139.06
root_num: 779
articleid: 01390
articlecurrent_num: 139
articleroot_num: 219
text:
(c) to communicate to any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 142 (Domestic Committees), or to the Finance and Services Committee appointed under Standing Order No. 144, or to the House of Commons Commission, its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01390.07
current_num: 139.07
root_num: 780
articleid: 01390
articlecurrent_num: 139
articleroot_num: 219
text:
(d) to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 142 (Domestic Committees), or with the Finance and Services Committee, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01420.11
current_num: 142.11
root_num: 756
articleid: 01420
articlecurrent_num: 142
articleroot_num: 217
text:
(c) to communicate to any other such committee, or to the Finance and Services Committee appointed under Standing Order No. 144, or to the Broadcasting Committee appointed under Standing Order No. 139, or to the House of Commons Commission, its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01430.03
current_num: 143.03
root_num: 737
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(b) to make recommendations for the further consideration of any such document pursuant to Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01430.05
current_num: 143.05
root_num: 739
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The expression 'European Community documents' in this Order and in Standing Orders No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Community documents), No. 89 (Procedure in standing committees) and No. 119 (European Standing Committees) means-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01440.04
current_num: 144.04
root_num: 765
articleid: 01440
articlecurrent_num: 144
articleroot_num: 218
text:
(c) to report to the House of Commons Commission or the Speaker on the financial and administrative implications of recommendations made to them by any of the committees appointed under Standing Orders No. 142 (Domestic Committees) or No. 139 (Select Committee on Broadcasting).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01440.09
current_num: 144.09
root_num: 770
articleid: 01440
articlecurrent_num: 144
articleroot_num: 218
text:
(b) to communicate to any committee appointed under Standing Orders No. 142 (Domestic Committees) and No. 139 (Select Committee on Broadcasting), or to the House of Commons Commission, its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01440.10
current_num: 144.10
root_num: 771
articleid: 01440
articlecurrent_num: 144
articleroot_num: 218
text:
(c) to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under Standing Orders No. 142 (Domestic Committees) or No. 139 (Select Committee on Broadcasting), for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01460.01
current_num: 146.01
root_num: 530
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
There shall be a select committee to examine the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, of the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and Wales and of the Parliamentary Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, which are laid before this House, and matters in connection therewith; and the committee shall consist of nine Members of whom the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01470.01
current_num: 147.01
root_num: 1066
articleid: 01470
articlecurrent_num: 147
articleroot_num: 251
text:
There shall be a select committee, to be called the Procedure Committee, to consider the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of public business, and to make recommendations.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01480.03
current_num: 148.03
root_num: 745
articleid: 01480
articlecurrent_num: 148
articleroot_num: 66
text:
The committee shall have power to communicate to any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) such evidence as it may have received from the National Audit Office (having been agreed between that Office and the government department or departments concerned) but which has not been reported to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01490.12
current_num: 149.12
root_num: 933
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
Mr Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr Solicitor General and Mr Solicitor General for Scotland, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01540.01
current_num: 154.01
root_num: 10
articleid: 01540
articlecurrent_num: 154
articleroot_num: 5
text:
Every petition presented under Standing Order No. 153 (Presentation of petitions) not containing matter in breach of the privileges of this House, and which according to the rules or usual practice of this House can be received, shall be brought to the Table-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01540.03
current_num: 154.03
root_num: 714
articleid: 01540
articlecurrent_num: 154
articleroot_num: 5
text:
(b) on Fridays, at the commencement of public business, provided that petitions remaining to be presented at ten o'clock on a Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence under Standing Order No. 14 (Arrangement of public business) shall stand over and may be brought to the Table after a member of the government shall have signified his intention to move 'That this House do now adjourn', for the purpose of bringing the sitting to a conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01550.01
current_num: 155.01
root_num: 12
articleid: 01550
articlecurrent_num: 155
articleroot_num: 7
text:
In the case of a petition presented under Standing Order No. 153 (Presentation of petitions) and complaining of some present personal grievance, for which there may be an urgent necessity for providing an immediate remedy, the matter contained in such petition may be brought into discussion on the presentation thereof and proceedings under this order shall not be interrupted at ten o'clock and may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-03-20
subarticleid: 01560.01
current_num: 156.01
root_num: 494
articleid: 01560
articlecurrent_num: 156
articleroot_num: 186
text:
All petitions presented under Standing Order No. 153 (Presentation of petitions), and not proceeded with under Standing Order No. 155 (Petition as to present personal grievance), shall be ordered to lie upon the Table and to be printed, and the Clerk of the House shall transmit all such petitions to a Minister of the Crown and any observations made by a Minister or Ministers in reply to such petitions shall be laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House and shall be ordered to be printed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-08
subarticleid: 01460.01
current_num: 146.01
root_num: 530
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
There shall be a select committee to examine the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, of the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and Wales and of the Parliamentary Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, which are laid before this House, and matters in connection therewith, and to consider matters relating to the quality and standards of administration provided by Civil Service departments, and other matters relating to the Civil Service; and the committee shall consist of nine Members of whom the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-08
subarticleid: 01520.07
current_num: 152.07
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
4 Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs | Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions | 17 | 5


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-08
subarticleid: 01520.13
current_num: 152.13
root_num: 787
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
10 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13 | 4


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-08
subarticleid: 01520.20
current_num: 152.20
root_num: 531
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
The Education and Employment Committee and the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee shall each have the power to appoint two sub-committees; and the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Home Affairs Committee and the Treasury Committee shall each have the power to appoint one sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-08
subarticleid: 01520.24
current_num: 152.24
root_num: 536
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(c) to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before sub-committees, and to lay upon the Table of the House the minutes of the proceedings of sub-committees;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-08
subarticleid: 01520.27
current_num: 152.27
root_num: 537
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings, and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under this order or any sub-committee thereof for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence and shall have a quorum of three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-15
subarticleid: 01460.01
current_num: 146.01
root_num: 530
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
There shall be a select committee to examine the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, of the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and Wales and of the Parliamentary Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, which are laid before this House, and matters in connection therewith, and to consider matters relating to the quality and standards of administration provided by Civil Service departments, and other matters relating to the Civil Service; and the committee shall consist of eleven Members of whom the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-18
subarticleid: 01420.06
current_num: 142.06
root_num: 751
articleid: 01420
articlecurrent_num: 142
articleroot_num: 217
text:
Each committee appointed under this order shall consist of nine Members, and the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-07-25
subarticleid: 01520.08
current_num: 152.08
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
5 Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs | Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions | 17 | 5


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-10-28
subarticleid: 01480.01
current_num: 148.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 01480
articlecurrent_num: 148
articleroot_num: 66
text:
There shall be a select committee to be called the Committee of Public Accounts for the examination of the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit, to consist of not more than sixteen Members, of whom four shall be a quorum. The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to report from time to time, and to adjourn from place to place.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-11-10
subarticleid: 01520.25
current_num: 152.25
root_num: 676
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(d) to communicate to any other such committee and to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee their evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-11-10
subarticleid: 0152A.01
current_num: 152A.01
root_num: 1072
articleid: 0152A
articlecurrent_num: 152A
articleroot_num: 252
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Environmental Audit Committee, to consider to what extent the policies and programmes of government departments and non-departmental public bodies contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development; to audit their performance against such targets as may be set for them by Her Majesty's Ministers; and to report thereon to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-11-10
subarticleid: 0152A.07
current_num: 152A.07
root_num: 1078
articleid: 0152A
articlecurrent_num: 152A
articleroot_num: 252
text:
(c) to communicate its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest to any committee appointed by this House or by the Lords; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1997-11-10
subarticleid: 0152A.08
current_num: 152A.08
root_num: 1079
articleid: 0152A
articlecurrent_num: 152A
articleroot_num: 252
text:
(d) to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or any sub-committee thereof, or with any committee appointed by the Lords, or any sub-committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or examining witnesses.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 00450.01
current_num: 45.01
root_num: 116
articleid: 00450
articlecurrent_num: 45
articleroot_num: 143
text:
Members who are ordered to withdraw under Standing Order No. 43 (Disorderly conduct) or who are suspended from the service of the House shall forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 0045A.01
current_num: 45A.01
root_num: 1080
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 253
text:
The salary of a Member suspended from the service of the House shall be withheld for the duration of his suspension.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 696
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 212
text:
The Speaker may announce at or before the commencement of proceedings on any motion or order of the day relating to public business that she intends to call Members to speak in the debate thereon, or between certain hours during that debate, for no longer than any period she may specify (which shall not be less than eight minutes), and whenever the Speaker has made such an announcement she may direct any Member (other than a Minister of the Crown, a Member speaking on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, or not more than one Member nominated by the leader of the second largest opposition party) who has spoken for that period to resume his seat forthwith. Provided that, in calculating that period, the Speaker may disregard the time taken by interventions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 00970.09
current_num: 97.09
root_num: 947
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
At the conclusion of proceedings on consideration on report of a bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (3) above, or on the order being read for the third reading of such a bill, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of a private Member's bill, by the Member in charge of the bill), 'That the Bill be referred again to the Scottish Grand Committee'; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 00970.10
current_num: 97.10
root_num: 948
articleid: 00970
articlecurrent_num: 97
articleroot_num: 141
text:
A bill so referred again to the Scottish Grand Committee shall be considered on a motion, 'That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle'; and, when the committee has considered that question for a total of one and a half hours (whether on one or more than one day), the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the motion, and shall then report accordingly to the House (or shall report that the committee has come to no resolution), without any further question being put thereon: Provided that a Minister of the Crown may, immediately before the motion 'That the Committee has further considered the bill in relation to its principle' is made, make without notice a motion to extend the time-limit specified in this paragraph; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 01160.14
current_num: 116.14
root_num: 1049
articleid: 01160
articlecurrent_num: 116
articleroot_num: 249
text:
On a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) above, after the interruption of proceedings, or on the completion of the business appointed for consideration at that sitting, whichever is the earlier, a motion for the adjournment of the committee may be made by a Minister of the Crown, and, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees), the chairman shall, not later than half an hour after the motion has been made, adjourn the committee without putting any question; and in respect of business taken under this paragraph, the quorum of the committee shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-06-04
subarticleid: 01630.01
current_num: 163.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 01630
articlecurrent_num: 163
articleroot_num: 105
text:
If at any sitting of the House, or in a committee of the whole House, any Member moves 'That the House sit in private' the Speaker or the Chairman shall forthwith put the question 'That the House sit in private', and such question, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, but such a Motion may be made no more than once in any sitting: Provided that the Speaker or the chairman may, whenever she thinks fit, order the withdrawal of those other than Members or Officers from any part of the House. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 302
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 229
text:
The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings under any Act of Parliament or on European Union documents (as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee)) not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of such proceedings, subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 17 (Delegated legislation (negative procedure)).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 00890.03
current_num: 89.03
root_num: 448
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(a) Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed or referred to a standing committee, or of a motion relative to a European Union document or documents or an amendment thereto given under Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) shall stand referred to the committee, and the chairman shall have the like powers as are given to the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means and either Deputy Chairman respectively by Standing Order No. 32 (Selection of amendments).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.01
current_num: 119.01
root_num: 564
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
There shall be three standing committees, called European Standing Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Union documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee) as may be recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for further consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.02
current_num: 119.02
root_num: 723
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
If a motion that specified European Union documents as aforesaid shall not stand referred to a European Standing Committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.03
current_num: 119.03
root_num: 724
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
Each European Standing Committee shall consist of thirteen Members nominated for the duration of a Parliament by the Committee of Selection; and in nominating such Members, the Committee of Selection shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.07
current_num: 119.07
root_num: 565
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
Any Member, though not nominated to a European Standing Committee, may take part in the committee's proceedings and may move amendments to any motion made as provided in paragraphs (7) and (8) below, but such Member shall not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as provided in paragraphs (7) and (8) below; and the Government may appoint the precedence of notices of motion to be considered in each committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.08
current_num: 119.08
root_num: 728
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
The European Standing Committees, and the principal subject matter of the European Union documents to be referred to each, shall be as set out below; and in making recommendations for further consideration, the European Scrutiny Committee shall specify the committee to which in its opinion the documents ought to be referred; and subject to paragraph (2) of this order, the documents shall be referred to that committee accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.11
current_num: 119.11
root_num: 731
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
A | Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Environment, Transport and the Regions; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Offices


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.12
current_num: 119.12
root_num: 1081
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
B | HM Treasury (including HM Customs and Excise); Social Security; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Lord Chancellor's Department; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.14
current_num: 119.14
root_num: 734
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
The chairman may permit Ministers of the Crown to make statements and to answer questions thereon put by Members, in respect of each motion relative to a European Union document or documents referred to a European Standing Committee of which a Minister shall have given notice; but no question shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement: Provided that the chairman may, if he sees fit, allow questions to be taken for a further period of not more than half an hour after the expiry of that period.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01190.19
current_num: 119.19
root_num: 572
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Union document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (8) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.01
current_num: 143.01
root_num: 650
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
There shall be a select committee, to be called the European Scrutiny Committee, to examine European Union documents and-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.05
current_num: 143.05
root_num: 739
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The expression "European Union document" in this order and in Standing Orders No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents), No. 89 (Procedure in standing committees) and No. 119 (European Standing Committees) means-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.06
current_num: 143.06
root_num: 740
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(i) any proposal under the Community Treaties for legislation by the Council or the Council acting jointly with the European Parliament;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.07
current_num: 143.07
root_num: 741
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(ii) any document which is published for submission to the European Council, the Council or the European Central Bank;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.08
current_num: 143.08
root_num: 1083
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(iii) any proposal for a common strategy, a joint action or a common position under Title V of the Treaty on European Union which is prepared for submission to the Council or to the European Council;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.09
current_num: 143.09
root_num: 1084
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(iv) any proposal for a common position, framework decision, decision or a convention under Title VI of the Treaty on European Union which is prepared for submission to the Council;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.10
current_num: 143.10
root_num: 742
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(v) any document (not falling within (ii), (iii) or (iv) above) which is published by one Union institution for or with a view to submission to another Union institution and which does not relate exclusively to consideration of any proposal for legislation;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.11
current_num: 143.11
root_num: 743
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
(vi) any other document relating to European Union matters deposited in the House by a Minister of the Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.14
current_num: 143.14
root_num: 653
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committee shall have power to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.21
current_num: 143.21
root_num: 1085
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committee shall have power to seek from any committee specified in paragraph (14) of this order its opinion on any European Union document, and to require a reply to such a request within such time as it may specify.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.22
current_num: 143.22
root_num: 660
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committee or any sub-committee appointed by it shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee specified in paragraph (14) of this order or with any committee of the Lords on the European Communities, or any sub-committee of that committee, for the purposes of deliberating or examining witnesses.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.23
current_num: 143.23
root_num: 1086
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committee shall have power to communicate to any committee specified in paragraph (14) of this order its evidence or any other document relating to matters of common interest.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01430.24
current_num: 143.24
root_num: 1087
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committees specified for the purposes of this order are those appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) including any sub-committees of such committees, the Select Committee on Public Administration, the Committee of Public Accounts, and the Environmental Audit Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01460.04
current_num: 146.04
root_num: 603
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
(b) to appoint specialist advisers to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01460.05
current_num: 146.05
root_num: 1088
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
(c) to communicate to the European Scrutiny Committee its evidence and any other document relating to matters of common interest; and;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01460.06
current_num: 146.06
root_num: 1089
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
(d) to meet concurrently with the European Scrutiny Committee, or any Sub-Committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or of taking evidence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01480.03
current_num: 148.03
root_num: 745
articleid: 01480
articlecurrent_num: 148
articleroot_num: 66
text:
The committee shall have power to communicate to any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) and to the European Scrutiny Committee such evidence as it may have received from the National Audit Office (having been agreed between that Office and the government department or departments concerned) but which has not been reported to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01480.04
current_num: 148.04
root_num: 1090
articleid: 01480
articlecurrent_num: 148
articleroot_num: 66
text:
The Committee shall have power to meet concurrently with the European Scrutiny Committee, or any Sub-Committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01520.25
current_num: 152.25
root_num: 676
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(d) to communicate to any other such committee and to the European Scrutiny Committee, to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee their evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01520.26
current_num: 152.26
root_num: 677
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(e) to meet concurrently with any other such committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft reports; or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any Sub-Committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 01520.27
current_num: 152.27
root_num: 537
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings, and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under this order or any sub-committee thereof or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence and shall have a quorum of three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1998-11-17
subarticleid: 0152A.08
current_num: 152A.08
root_num: 1079
articleid: 0152A
articlecurrent_num: 152A
articleroot_num: 252
text:
(d) to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or any sub-committee thereof, or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee threof, or with any committee appointed by the Lords, or any sub-committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or examining witnesses.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 00710.01
current_num: 71.01
root_num: 42
articleid: 00710
articlecurrent_num: 71
articleroot_num: 38
text:
At the close of the proceedings of a committee of the whole House on a bill, the chairman shall report the bill forthwith to the House, and when amendments shall have been made thereto, a day shall be appointed for taking the bill, as amended, into consideration, unless the House shall order it to be taken into consideration forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 239
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 137
text:
Mr. Attorney General, the Advocate General and Mr. Solicitor General, or any of them, being Members of the House, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment other than a motion in the Scottish Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 93 (Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Welsh Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 102 (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee under Standing Order No. 109 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)) or a motion or an amendment in a European Standing Committee under Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 01130.05
current_num: 113.05
root_num: 1025
articleid: 01130
articlecurrent_num: 113
articleroot_num: 247
text:
At the conclusion of proceedings on consideration on report of a bill in respect of which a report has been made under paragraph (2) above, or on the order being read for the third reading of such a bill, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of a private Member's bill by the Member in charge of the bill), 'That the bill be referred again to the Northern Ireland Grand Committee'; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed: Provided that such a motion may be made by a private Member only with the leave of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 01490.12
current_num: 149.12
root_num: 933
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
Mr Attorney General, the Advocate General and Mr Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 01510.08
current_num: 151.08
root_num: 625
articleid: 01510
articlecurrent_num: 151
articleroot_num: 205
text:
(B) every general statutory instrument not within the foregoing classes, and not within paragraph (10) of this order, but not including any stautory instrument made by a member of the Scottish Executive or by the National Assembly for Wales unless it is required to be laid before Parliament or either House of Parliament and not including measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures: 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 01520.15
current_num: 152.15
root_num: 549
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
12 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1999-10-25
subarticleid: 01520.19
current_num: 152.19
root_num: 539
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
16 Welsh Affairs | Welsh Office (Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales)) | 11 | 3


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.01
current_num: 117.01
root_num: 508
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
There shall be a standing committee called the Standing Committee on Regional Affairs, which shall consider any matter relating to regional affairs in England which may be referred to it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.02
current_num: 117.02
root_num: 509
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
The Committee shall consist of thirteen Members representing English constituencies nominated by the Committee of Selection; and in nominating such Members, the Committee of Selection shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.05
current_num: 117.05
root_num: 1093
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
Any Member of the House representing an English constituency, though not nominated to the committee, may take part in its proceedings, but may not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as specified in paragraph (10) below.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.07
current_num: 117.07
root_num: 1094
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
Paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees) shall not apply to the committee; except that the proviso to that paragraph shall apply to any sitting at Westminster.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.08
current_num: 117.08
root_num: 510
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
A motion may be made in the House by a Minister of the Crown to specify (or to vary) any or all of the following:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.14
current_num: 117.14
root_num: 1100
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
and such motion may be moved at any time; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.15
current_num: 117.15
root_num: 1101
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
Where any order made under paragraph (6) above makes no provision for the period to be allotted to the proceedings on any matter or matters which have been referred to the committee for consideration at a particular sitting, those proceedings shall be brought to a conclusion no later than three hours after their commencement.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.16
current_num: 117.16
root_num: 1102
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
At the commencement of business at any sitting of the committee, the chairman may permit Ministers of the Crown, being Members of the House, to make statements on any matter or matters referred to the committee for consideration at that sitting, and may then permit members of the committee to ask questions thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.17
current_num: 117.17
root_num: 1103
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
No question on a statement by a Minister of the Crown shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement, except that the chairman may, at his discretion, allow such questions to be taken for a further period not exceeding half an hour.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.18
current_num: 117.18
root_num: 511
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
The Committee shall, following any such statements and questions, consider each matter referred to it on a motion 'That the Committee has considered the matter'; the Chairman shall put the Question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on each matter at the time, or after the period, specified in accordance with paragraph (6) or paragraph (7) of this Order, and the Committee shall thereupon report to the House that it has considered the matter or matters without any further Question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2000-04-11
subarticleid: 01170.19
current_num: 117.19
root_num: 1104
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
Any period allocated to the consideration of any matter or matters shall include any time spent on statements by Ministers of the Crown and questions thereon, except when otherwise provided by any order of the House made in accordance with paragraph (6) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-15
subarticleid: 01190.11
current_num: 119.11
root_num: 731
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
A | Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Environment, Transport and the Regions; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Offices.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-15
subarticleid: 01190.12
current_num: 119.12
root_num: 1081
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
B | HM Treasury (including HM Customs and Excise); Social Security; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Lord Chancellor's Department; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-15
subarticleid: 0152C.01
current_num: 152C.01
root_num: 1105
articleid: 0152C
articlecurrent_num: 152C
articleroot_num: 254
text:
There shall be a select committee, to consist of seven Members, to join with the committee appointed by the Lords as the Joint Committee on Tax Simplification Bills, to consider tax simplification bills, and in particular to consider whether each bill committed to it preserves the effect of the existing law, subject to any minor changes which may be desirable.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-15
subarticleid: 0152C.02
current_num: 152C.02
root_num: 1106
articleid: 0152C
articlecurrent_num: 152C
articleroot_num: 254
text:
The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to report from time to time, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-15
subarticleid: 0152C.05
current_num: 152C.05
root_num: 1109
articleid: 0152C
articlecurrent_num: 152C
articleroot_num: 254
text:
The procedure of the Joint Committee shall follow the procedure of select committees of this House when such procedure differs from that of select committees of the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-15
subarticleid: 0152C.06
current_num: 152C.06
root_num: 1110
articleid: 0152C
articlecurrent_num: 152C
articleroot_num: 254
text:
The chairman shall have the like powers of selection as are given to the chairman of a standing committee under paragraph (3)(a) of Standing Order No. 89 (Procedure in standing committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.01
current_num: 152B.01
root_num: 1111
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
There shall be a select committee, to consist of six Members, to join with the committee appointed by the Lords as the Joint Committee on Human Rights.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.03
current_num: 152B.03
root_num: 1113
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(a) matters relating to human rights in the United Kingdom (but excluding consideration of individual cases);


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.04
current_num: 152B.04
root_num: 1114
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(b) proposals for remedial orders, draft remedial orders and remedial orders made under Section 10 of and laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.05
current_num: 152B.05
root_num: 1115
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(c) in respect of draft remedial orders and remedial orders, whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to them on any of the grounds specified in Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee));


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.07
current_num: 152B.07
root_num: 1117
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(a) in relation to any document containing proposals laid before the House under paragraph 3 of the said Schedule 2, its recommendation whether a draft order in the same terms as the proposals should be laid before the House; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.08
current_num: 152B.08
root_num: 1118
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(b) in relation to any draft order laid under paragraph 2 of the said Schedule 2, its recommendation whether the draft order should be approved;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.09
current_num: 152B.09
root_num: 1119
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
and the committee may report to the House on any matter arising from its consideration of the said proposals or draft orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.10
current_num: 152B.10
root_num: 1120
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
The committee shall report to the House in respect of any original order laid under paragraph 4 of the said Schedule 2, its recommendation whether-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.12
current_num: 152B.12
root_num: 1122
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(b) that the order should be replaced by a new order modifying the provisions of the original order; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.14
current_num: 152B.14
root_num: 1124
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
and the committee may report to the House on any matter arising from its consideration of the said order or any replacement order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.18
current_num: 152B.18
root_num: 1128
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, to adjourn to institutions of the Council of Europe outside the United Kingdom no more than four times in any calendar year, and to report from time to time; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-01-17
subarticleid: 0152B.19
current_num: 152B.19
root_num: 1129
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
(b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 481
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 184
text:
Whenever it is necessary to proceed to the choice of a new Speaker in consequence of an intimation to Her Majesty by the Speaker of his wish to relinquish that office then the Speaker shall continue to take the chair and shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker until a new Speaker has been chosen, whereupon the Speaker shall leave the chair and shall cease to perform those duties and to exercise that authority and the Speaker Elect shall take the chair accordingly:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001A.01
current_num: 1A.01
root_num: 1130
articleid: 0001A
articlecurrent_num: 1A
articleroot_num: 256
text:
If at the commencement of a Parliament the Member who was Speaker at the dissolution of the previous Parliament is returned to the House, the Member presiding in accordance with Standing Order No. 1 (Election of the Speaker: Member presiding) shall, when the House meets to proceed with the choice of a Speaker, ascertain whether the former Speaker is willing to be chosen as Speaker, and, the former Speaker having submitted himself to the House, shall call upon a Member to move that he do take the Chair of this House as Speaker; and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001A.03
current_num: 1A.03
root_num: 1132
articleid: 0001A
articlecurrent_num: 1A
articleroot_num: 256
text:
If the question is negatived, the Member presiding shall forthwith adjourn the House to the following day at half-past two o'clock, and the House shall proceed in accordance with Standing Order No. 1B (Election of Speaker by secret ballot).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.01
current_num: 1B.01
root_num: 1133
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
If the question put in accordance with Standing Order No. 1A (Re-election of former Speaker) has been negatived, and on any other occasion when it is necessary to proceed with the choice of a new Speaker, the election shall be by secret ballot.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.02
current_num: 1B.02
root_num: 1134
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
Preparatory arrangements for a ballot shall be made under the supervision of the Clerk of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.03
current_num: 1B.03
root_num: 1135
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(a) Nominations of candidates shall be in writing and shall be received by the Clerk of the House between half-past nine o'clock and half-past ten o'clock in the morning on the day on which the House is to elect a Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.04
current_num: 1B.04
root_num: 1136
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(b) Each nomination shall consist of a signed statement made by the candidate declaring his willingness to stand for election accompanied by the signatures of not fewer than twelve nor more than fifteen Members, of whom not fewer than three shall be Members elected to the House as members of any party other than that to which the candidate belongs or members of no party. No Member shall sign more than one such statement and if any Member does so, his signature shall no longer be valid.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.05
current_num: 1B.05
root_num: 1137
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(c) As soon as practicable following the close of nominations, lists of the candidates shall be placed in the Members' lobby and published.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.06
current_num: 1B.06
root_num: 1138
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
If only one Member is nominated in accordance with paragraph (3) above, the Member presiding shall, when the House meets to elect a Speaker, invite the Member so nominated to submit himself to the House, and shall then put forthwith the question that that Member do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.07
current_num: 1B.07
root_num: 1139
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
Paragraphs (6) to (13) of this order shall apply if two or more Members are nominated in accordance with paragraph (3) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.08
current_num: 1B.08
root_num: 1140
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
When the House meets, the order in which candidates may address the House shall be determined by lot; the Member presiding shall then invite each candidate to address the House; and after all candidates have been given an opportunity to speak, the Member presiding shall direct the House to proceed to a ballot.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.11
current_num: 1B.11
root_num: 1143
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(b) Each Member intending to vote shall be provided with a ballot paper bearing the names of the candidates listed in alphabetical order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.13
current_num: 1B.13
root_num: 1145
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(d) A ballot shall be declared closed after the expiration of half an hour and counting shall take place under arrangements made by the Clerk of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.14
current_num: 1B.14
root_num: 1146
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(e) The Member presiding shall have discretion to vary the timings given in this order and power to give final directions on any matter of doubt arising from the conduct of a ballot or from an individual ballot paper.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.15
current_num: 1B.15
root_num: 1147
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
As soon as practicable after the votes have been counted the Member presiding shall announce to the House the numbers of votes cast for each candidate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.16
current_num: 1B.16
root_num: 1148
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
If a candidate has received more than half the votes cast in a ballot, the Member presiding shall forthwith put the question that that Member do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.17
current_num: 1B.17
root_num: 1149
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
If no candidate has received more than half the votes cast in a ballot the Member presiding shall direct the House to proceed forthwith to a further ballot to which paragraph (12) below shall apply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.20
current_num: 1B.20
root_num: 1152
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(b) any candidate who received less than five per cent. of the votes cast in the previous ballot; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.21
current_num: 1B.21
root_num: 1153
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(c) any candidate who, within ten minutes of the announcement in the House of the result of the previous ballot, shall have notified the Member presiding of his intention to withdraw.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.22
current_num: 1B.22
root_num: 1154
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
shall be removed from the ballot paper, except that where two or more candidates received the same number of votes, their names shall remain on the ballot paper unless paragraph (b) applies.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.23
current_num: 1B.23
root_num: 1155
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
If the effect of paragraph (12) above is to remove from the ballot paper the name of every candidate except one, the Member presiding shall forthwith put the question that that Member do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.24
current_num: 1B.24
root_num: 1156
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Orders Nos. 10 (Wednesday sittings) and 11 (Friday sittings), on any day on which the House meets to elect a Speaker, it shall meet at half-past two o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.25
current_num: 1B.25
root_num: 1157
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(b) No amendment may be offered to the question that a Member do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 0001B.27
current_num: 1B.27
root_num: 1159
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(d) If that question is negatived, the Member presiding shall forthwith adjourn the House to the following day at half-past two o'clock, and the provisions of paragraph (3) above shall apply in respect of a fresh ballot.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00030.02
current_num: 3.02
root_num: 62
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 170
text:
Whenever the House shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence or the absence by leave of the House of the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of the Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, until the Speaker resumes the chair or, if he does not resume the chair during the course of the sitting, until the next meeting of the House, and so on from day to day, on the like information being given to the House, until the House shall otherwise order:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00110.07
current_num: 11.07
root_num: 554
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 27
text:
At eleven o'clock the Speaker may interrupt the proceedings in order to permit questions to be asked which are in his opinion of an urgent character and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business, statements to be made by Ministers, or personal explanations to be made by Members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 214
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 130
text:
Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to the Speaker by Her Majesty's Ministers that the public interest requires that the House should meet at a time earlier than that to which the House stands adjourned, the Speaker, if he is satisfied that the public interest does so require, may give notice that, being so satisfied, he appoints a time for the House to meet, and the House shall accordingly meet at the time stated in such notice.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00130.03
current_num: 13.03
root_num: 259
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 130
text:
In the event of the Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Chairman of Ways and Means, or either Deputy Chairman, shall act in his stead for the purposes of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00170.02
current_num: 17.02
root_num: 278
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 153
text:
If such a motion is under consideration at half-past eleven o'clock, the Speaker shall forthwith put any question which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair: Provided that, if he shall be of opinion that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00190.01
current_num: 19.01
root_num: 712
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 215
text:
If a Motion to the effect that the Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member is proposed to be made or is made after prayers on any day on which private Members' bills have precedence, and is opposed, proceedings thereon shall lapse.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00230.01
current_num: 23.01
root_num: 113
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 94
text:
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and, if given by a Minister of the Crown, on Mondays and Thursdays, notices of motions for leave to bring in bills, and for the nomination of select committees, may be set down for consideration at the commencement of public business. The Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes any such motion respectively, shall put either the question thereon, or the question, 'That the debate be now adjourned'.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00240.03
current_num: 24.03
root_num: 341
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 77
text:
A Member intending to propose to move the adjournment of the House under the provisions of this order shall give notice to the Speaker by twelve o'clock, if the urgency of the matter is known at that hour. If the urgency is not so known he shall give notice as soon thereafter as is practicable. If the Speaker so desires he may defer giving his decision upon whether the matter is proper to be discussed until a named hour, when he may interrupt the proceedings of the House for the purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00240.05
current_num: 24.05
root_num: 343
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 77
text:
The Speaker shall state whether or not he is satisfied that the matter is proper to be discussed without giving the reasons for his decision to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 298
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 156
text:
Notwithstanding the practice of the House which prohibits in a debate on a motion for the adjournment of the House any reference to matters requiring legislative remedy, the Speaker may permit such incidental reference to legislative action as he may consider relevant to any matter of administration then under debate when enforcement of the prohibition would, in his opinion, unduly restrict the discussion of such matter.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00320.03
current_num: 32.03
root_num: 439
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 119
text:
The Speaker, or in a committee of the whole House, the Chairman of Ways and Means or either Deputy Chairman, may, if he think fit, call upon any Member who has given notice of an amendment, new clause or new schedule to give such explanation of the object thereof as may enable him to form a judgement upon it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00350.01
current_num: 35.01
root_num: 90
articleid: 00350
articlecurrent_num: 35
articleroot_num: 79
text:
If the Speaker, or the chairman, shall be of opinion that a dilatory motion is an abuse of the rules of the House, he may forthwith put the question thereupon from the chair, or he may decline to propose the question thereupon to the House or the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00380.01
current_num: 38.01
root_num: 162
articleid: 00380
articlecurrent_num: 38
articleroot_num: 113
text:
If the opinion of the Speaker or the chairman as to the decision of a question is challenged he shall direct that the lobby be cleared.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00400.01
current_num: 40.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00400
articlecurrent_num: 40
articleroot_num: 97
text:
The Speaker or the chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes, if in his opinion the division is unnecessarily claimed, take the vote of the House, or committee, by calling upon the Members who support, and who challenge, his decision, successively to rise in their places; and he shall thereupon, as he thinks fit, either declare the determination of the House or committee, or name tellers for a division.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 96
text:
The Speaker, or the chairman, shall order any Member or Members whose conduct is grossly disorderly to withdraw immediately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting; and the Serjeant at Arms shall act on such orders as he may receive from the chair in pursuance of this order. But if on any occasion the Speaker, or the chairman, deems that his powers under the previous provisions of this order are inadequate, he may name such Member or Members, in which event the same procedure shall be followed as is prescribed by Standing Order No. 44 (Order in debate).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00440.04
current_num: 44.04
root_num: 128
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 75
text:
If a Member, or two or more Members acting jointly, who have been suspended under this order from the service of the House, shall refuse to obey the direction of the Speaker, when severally summoned under the Speaker's orders by the Serjeant at Arms to obey such direction, the Speaker shall call the attention of the House to the fact that recourse to force is necessary in order to compel obedience to his direction, and the Member or Members named by him as having refused to obey his direction shall thereupon and without any further question being put be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 137
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 108
text:
In the case of grave disorder arising in the House the Speaker may, if he thinks it necessary to do so, adjourn the House without putting any question, or suspend the sitting for a time to be named by him.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 696
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 212
text:
The Speaker may announce at or before the commencement of proceedings on any motion or order of the day relating to public business that he intends to call Members to speak in the debate thereon, or between certain hours during that debate, for no longer than any period he may specify (which shall not be less than eight minutes), and whenever the Speaker has made such an announcement he may direct any Member (other than a Minister of the Crown, a Member speaking on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, or not more than one Member nominated by the leader of the second largest opposition party) who has spoken for that period to resume his seat forthwith. Provided that, in calculating that period, the Speaker may disregard the time taken by interventions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00630.03
current_num: 63.03
root_num: 170
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 115
text:
A motion to commit a bill to a standing committee in respect of some of its provisions and to a committee of the whole House in respect of other provisions may be made by the Member in charge of the bill and, if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time, shall not require notice, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. If such a motion is opposed, the Speaker after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes the motion shall, without permitting any further debate, put the question thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 00780.03
current_num: 78.03
root_num: 588
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 52
text:
If the Speaker is satisfied that a Lords amendment imposes a charge upon the public revenue such as is required to be authorised by resolution of the House under Standing Order No. 49 (Certain proceedings relating to public money) and that such charge has not been so authorised, on reaching that amendment, the Speaker shall declare that he is so satisfied and the amendment shall be deemed to have been disagreed to and shall be so recorded in the Journal.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-22
subarticleid: 01630.01
current_num: 163.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 01630
articlecurrent_num: 163
articleroot_num: 105
text:
If at any sitting of the House, or in a committee of the whole House, any Member moves 'That the House sit in private' the Speaker or the Chairman shall forthwith put the question 'That the House sit in private', and such question, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, but such a Motion may be made no more than once in any sitting: Provided that the Speaker or the chairman may, whenever he thinks fit, order the withdrawal of those other than Members or Officers from any part of the House. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-29
subarticleid: 01450.10
current_num: 145.10
root_num: 1160
articleid: 01450
articlecurrent_num: 145
articleroot_num: 194
text:
The committee shall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the Committee from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-29
subarticleid: 01450.11
current_num: 145.11
root_num: 1161
articleid: 01450
articlecurrent_num: 145
articleroot_num: 194
text:
The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-29
subarticleid: 01520.26
current_num: 152.26
root_num: 677
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(e) to meet concurrently with any other such committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft reports; or with the Environmental Audit Committee or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any Sub-Committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-29
subarticleid: 01520.27
current_num: 152.27
root_num: 537
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings, and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under this order or any sub-committee thereof or with the Environmental Audit Committee or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence and shall have a quorum of three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-03-29
subarticleid: 01520.28
current_num: 152.28
root_num: 1163
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4) (e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 851
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 226
text:
If the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committee has reported under paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 141 (Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committee) that a draft order laid before the House under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 or under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 should be approved and a motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to that effect, the question thereon shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 00980.03
current_num: 98.03
root_num: 821
articleid: 00980
articlecurrent_num: 98
articleroot_num: 223
text:
(b) a Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that an instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament (other than a draft deregulation order or regulatory reform order) be approved,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01180.03
current_num: 118.03
root_num: 490
articleid: 01180
articlecurrent_num: 118
articleroot_num: 185
text:
Where a Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that an instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament (other than a draft deregulation order or regulatory reform order) be approved, the instrument shall stand referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.01
current_num: 141.01
root_num: 856
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committee, to examine-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.02
current_num: 141.02
root_num: 1164
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(i) every document containing proposals laid before the House under section 3 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out 1994 (the 1994 Act) or under section 6 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (the 2001 Act);


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.03
current_num: 141.03
root_num: 1165
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(ii) every draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the 1994 Act or section 1 of the 2001 Act; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.04
current_num: 141.04
root_num: 1166
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(iii) every subordinate provisions order or draft of such an order made or proposed to be made under sections 1 and 4 of the 2001 Act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.05
current_num: 141.05
root_num: 857
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee shall report to the House, in relation to every proposals document referred to in paragraph 1(i) of this order, either


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.09
current_num: 141.09
root_num: 861
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee shall report to the House, in relation to every draft order referred to in paragraph 1(ii) of this order, its recommendation whether the draft order should be approved.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.10
current_num: 141.10
root_num: 1167
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee may draw the special attention of the House to any subordinate provisions order or draft order referred to in paragraph 1(iii) of this order, and may report its opinion whether or not the order or draft order should be approved or, as the case may be, annulled.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.11
current_num: 141.11
root_num: 862
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee may report to the House on any matter arising from consideration of the said proposals, draft orders or subordinate provisions orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.22
current_num: 141.22
root_num: 1168
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(B) in the case of proposals presented under the 2001 Act, the committee shall also consider whether the proposals-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.23
current_num: 141.23
root_num: 1169
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(j) prevent any person from continuing to exercise any right or freedom which he might reasonable expect to continue to exercise;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.24
current_num: 141.24
root_num: 1170
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(k) satisfy the conditions of proportionality between burdens and benefits set out in sections 1 and 3 of the Act;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.26
current_num: 141.26
root_num: 1172
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(m) have been the subject of, and take appropriate account of, estimates of increases or reductions in costs or other benefits which may result from their implementation; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.28
current_num: 141.28
root_num: 1174
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
and in the case of the latter consideration the committee shall report its opinion whether such a designation should be made, and to what parliamentary proceedings any subordinate provisions orders should be subject.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.29
current_num: 141.29
root_num: 873
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
In its consideration of draft orders, the committee shall consider in each case all such matters set out in paragraph (6) of this order as are relevant and the extent to which the Minister concerned has had regard to any resolution or report of the Committee or to any other representations made during the period for parliamentary consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.30
current_num: 141.30
root_num: 1175
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
In its consideration of any subordinate provisions order the committee shall in each case consider whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to it on any of the grounds on which (in accordance with paragraph 1(B) of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)) the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments may draw the attention of the House to a statutory instrument; and if the committee is of the opinion that any such order or draft order should be annulled, or, as the case may be, should not be approved, they shall report that opinion to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.38
current_num: 141.38
root_num: 881
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(d) to communicate its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest to any committee appointed by this House and to any committee appointed by the Lords to examine deregulation and regulatory reform proposals and draft orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.39
current_num: 141.39
root_num: 882
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The committee and the sub-committee shall have leave to meet concurrently with any select committee appointed by the Lords to examine deregulation and regulatory reform proposals and draft orders and any sub-committee thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01410.47
current_num: 141.47
root_num: 890
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
It shall be an instruction to the committee that it report on every draft order (not being a subordinate provisions order) not more than fifteen sitting days after the draft order was laid before the House, indicating in the case of draft orders which it recommends should be approved whether its recommendation was agreed without a division.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01510.07
current_num: 151.07
root_num: 624
articleid: 01510
articlecurrent_num: 151
articleroot_num: 205
text:
but excluding any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974 and any draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 or under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, or any subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under that Act;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-05-02
subarticleid: 01520.25
current_num: 152.25
root_num: 676
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(d) to communicate to any other such committee and to the European Scrutiny Committee, to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee their evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 00820.01
current_num: 82.01
root_num: 219
articleid: 00820
articlecurrent_num: 82
articleroot_num: 133
text:
There shall be a committee, to be called the Business Committee, consisting of the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall be chairman of the committee, and not more than eight other Members to be nominated by the Speaker, in respect of each bill to which this order applies. The quorum of the committee shall be four. The committee-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01190.11
current_num: 119.11
root_num: 731
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport, Local Government and the Regions; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01190.12
current_num: 119.12
root_num: 1081
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
B | HM Treasury (including HM Customs and Excise); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Lord Chancellor's Department; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01240.01
current_num: 124.01
root_num: 1176
articleid: 01240
articlecurrent_num: 124
articleroot_num: 258
text:
Except as otherwise provided, the quorum of a select committee shall be three or a quarter of the number of its members, whichever is the greater; and in calculating the quorum fractions shall be counted as one.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01240.02
current_num: 124.02
root_num: 1177
articleid: 01240
articlecurrent_num: 124
articleroot_num: 258
text:
Where more than two select committees or sub-committees thereof meet concurrently for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, pursuant to Standing Order No. 137A (Select committees: power to work with other committees), the quorum of each shall be two.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 0137A.01
current_num: 137A.01
root_num: 1178
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
Any select committee or sub-committee with power to send for persons, papers and records shall have power-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 0137A.02
current_num: 137A.02
root_num: 1179
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(a) to communicate its evidence to any other select committee or sub-committee of either House of Parliament; provided that evidence from the National Audit Office shall first have been agreed between that Office and the government department or departments concerned;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 0137A.03
current_num: 137A.03
root_num: 1180
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(b) to meet concurrently with any such committee or sub-committee for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 0137A.04
current_num: 137A.04
root_num: 1181
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(c) to meet concurrently with any other select committee of this House for the purpose of considering a draft report.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 0137A.05
current_num: 137A.05
root_num: 1182
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
Where two or more select committees have agreed reports to the House in identical terms, those reports may be published as a joint report.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01410.29
current_num: 141.29
root_num: 873
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
In its consideration of draft orders, the committee shall consider in each case all such matters set out in paragraph (6) of this order as are relevant and the extent to which the Minister concerned has had regard to any resolution or report of the committee or to any other representations made during the period for parliamentary consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01410.36
current_num: 141.36
root_num: 880
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(c) to appoint a sub-committee, of which the quorum shall be two, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01430.21
current_num: 143.21
root_num: 1085
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The committee shall have power to seek from any committee specified in paragraph (12) of this order its opinion on any European Union document, and to require a reply to such a request within such time as it may specify.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01460.01
current_num: 146.01
root_num: 530
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
There shall be a select committee to examine the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, of the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and Wales and of the Parliamentary Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, which are laid before this House, and matters in connection therewith, and to consider matters relating to the quality and standards of administration provided by civil service departments, and other matters relating to the civil service; and the committee shall consist of eleven Members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01460.06
current_num: 146.06
root_num: 1183
articleid: 01460
articlecurrent_num: 146
articleroot_num: 199
text:
The committee shall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report to the committee from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01480.01
current_num: 148.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 01480
articlecurrent_num: 148
articleroot_num: 66
text:
There shall be a select committee to be called the Committee of Public Accounts for the examination of the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit, to consist of not more than sixteen members. The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to report from time to time, and to adjourn from place to place.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.02
current_num: 152.02
root_num: 516
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.10
current_num: 152.10
root_num: 525
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
7 Home Affairs | Home Office; policy, administration and expenditure of the Lord Chancellor's Department (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.12
current_num: 152.12
root_num: 787
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
9 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.14
current_num: 152.14
root_num: 549
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
11 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.15
current_num: 152.15
root_num: 526
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
12 Trade and Industry | Department of Trade and Industry (but excluding the Office of Science and Technology) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.16
current_num: 152.16
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
13 Transport, Local Government and the Regions | Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions | 17


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.18
current_num: 152.18
root_num: 539
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
15 Welsh Affairs | Welsh Office (Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales)) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.20
current_num: 152.20
root_num: 531
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee, and the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and the Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.24
current_num: 152.24
root_num: 536
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
(c) to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before sub-committees, and to lay upon the Table of the House the minutes of the proceedings of sub-committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-07-05
subarticleid: 01520.25
current_num: 152.25
root_num: 537
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings, and shall have a quorum of three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-11-15
subarticleid: 00230.07
current_num: 23.07
root_num: 702
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 94
text:
No notice may be given under this order for a day on which Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer has declared his intention of opening his Budget; but-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-11-15
subarticleid: 01170.18
current_num: 117.18
root_num: 511
articleid: 01170
articlecurrent_num: 117
articleroot_num: 189
text:
The committee shall, following any such statements and questions, consider each matter referred to it on a motion 'That the committee has considered the matter'; the chairman shall put the question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on each matter at the time, or after the period, specified in accordance with paragraph (6) or paragraph (7) of this order, and the committee shall thereupon report to the House that it has considered the matter or matters without any further question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-11-15
subarticleid: 01410.30
current_num: 141.30
root_num: 1175
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
In its consideration of any subordinate provisions order the committee shall in each case consider whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to it on any of the grounds on which (in accordance with paragraph (1)(B) of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)) the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments may draw the attention of the House to a statutory instrument; and if the committee is of the opinion that any such order or draft order should be annulled, or, as the case may be, should not be approved, they shall report that opinion to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-11-15
subarticleid: 01430.05
current_num: 143.05
root_num: 739
articleid: 01430
articlecurrent_num: 143
articleroot_num: 206
text:
The expression 'European Union document' in this order and in Standing Orders No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents), No. 89 (Procedure in standing committees) and No. 119 (European Standing Committees) means-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2001-11-15
subarticleid: 0152B.15
current_num: 152B.15
root_num: 1125
articleid: 0152B
articlecurrent_num: 152B
articleroot_num: 255
text:
The quorum of the committee shall be three, except that for the purposes of taking evidence, the quorum shall be two.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-01-08
subarticleid: 01470.03
current_num: 147.03
root_num: 1069
articleid: 01470
articlecurrent_num: 147
articleroot_num: 251
text:
The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available, or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 851
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 226
text:
If the Regulatory Reform Committee has reported under paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 141 (Regulatory Reform Committee) that a draft order laid before the House under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 should be approved and a motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to that effect, the question thereon shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00540.01
current_num: 54.01
root_num: 146
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Three days, other than Fridays, before 5th August, shall be allotted in each session for the consideration of estimates set down under the provisions of paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 145 (Liaison Committee); and not more than one day so allotted may be taken in the form of two half days, not being Fridays.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00600.01
current_num: 60.01
root_num: 1056
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
In this order 'a tax law rewrite bill' means a bill which has been presented, or brought in upon an order of the House, by a Minister of the Crown and which has been ordered to be proceeded with as such a bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00600.03
current_num: 60.03
root_num: 1058
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A tax law rewrite bill shall, upon the making of an order under paragraph (2) above, stand referred to a second reading committee unless the House otherwise orders.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00600.04
current_num: 60.04
root_num: 1059
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a tax law rewrite bill shall no longer stand referred to a second reading committee, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00600.06
current_num: 60.06
root_num: 1061
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
A tax law rewrite bill shall, upon its being read a second time, stand committed to the Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00600.08
current_num: 60.08
root_num: 1063
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 250
text:
If a motion that the committee of the whole House be discharged from considering a tax law rewrite bill is made by a Minister of the Crown immediately after the order of the day has been read for the House to resolve itself into a committee on the bill, the motion shall not require notice and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and may be decided at any hour, though opposed; and if such question is agreed to the bill shall be ordered to be read the third time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 167
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 115
text:
When a public bill (other than a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, or a tax law rewrite bill, or a bill for confirming a provisional order) has been read a second time, it shall stand committed to a standing committee unless the House otherwise order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 218
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 132
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into a committee on a bill, the Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee, unless notice of an instruction to such committee has been given, when such instruction shall be first disposed of, or unless the committee is discharged in pursuance of paragraph (8) of Standing Order No. 60 (Tax law rewrite bills).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 00980.03
current_num: 98.03
root_num: 821
articleid: 00980
articlecurrent_num: 98
articleroot_num: 223
text:
(b) a Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that an instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament (other than a draft regulatory reform order) be approved,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 01180.03
current_num: 118.03
root_num: 490
articleid: 01180
articlecurrent_num: 118
articleroot_num: 185
text:
Where a Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that an instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament (other than a draft regulatory reform order) be approved, the instrument shall stand referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 0122A.01
current_num: 122A.01
root_num: 1189
articleid: 0122A
articlecurrent_num: 122A
articleroot_num: 260
text:
Unless the House otherwise orders, no select committee may choose as its chairman any Member who has served as chairman of that committee for the two previous Parliaments or a continuous period of eight years, whichever is the greater period.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 0137A.02
current_num: 137A.02
root_num: 1179
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(a) to communicate its evidence to any other select committee or sub-committee of either House of Parliament or to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly or to any of their committees; provided that evidence from the National Audit Office shall first have been agreed between that Office and the government department or departments concerned;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 0137A.03
current_num: 137A.03
root_num: 1180
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(b) to meet concurrently with any committee or sub-committee of either House of Parliament for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 0137A.04
current_num: 137A.04
root_num: 1181
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(c) to meet concurrently with any other select committee of this House for the purpose of considering a draft report; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 01410.02
current_num: 141.02
root_num: 1164
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(i) every document containing proposals laid before the House under section 6 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 01410.04
current_num: 141.04
root_num: 1166
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
(iii) every subordinate provisions order or draft of such an order made or proposed to be made under sections 1 and 4 of the 2001 Act (except those not made by a Minister of the Crown).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 01510.07
current_num: 151.07
root_num: 624
articleid: 01510
articlecurrent_num: 151
articleroot_num: 205
text:
but excluding any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000, any draft order proposed to be made under section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, or any subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under that Act, and any remedial order or draft remedial order under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-05-14
subarticleid: 0152C.01
current_num: 152C.01
root_num: 1105
articleid: 0152C
articlecurrent_num: 152C
articleroot_num: 254
text:
There shall be a select committee, to consist of seven Members, to join with the committee appointed by the Lords as the Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills, to consider tax law rewrite bills, and in particular to consider whether each bill committed to it preserves the effect of the existing law, subject to any minor changes which may be desirable.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-07-22
subarticleid: 01520.13
current_num: 152.13
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
10 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-07-22
subarticleid: 01520.15
current_num: 152.15
root_num: 549
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
12 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-07-22
subarticleid: 01520.16
current_num: 152.16
root_num: 526
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
13 Trade and Industry | Department of Trade and Industry (but excluding the Office of Science and Technology) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-07-22
subarticleid: 01520.19
current_num: 152.19
root_num: 539
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
16 Welsh Affairs | Welsh Office (Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales)) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-07-22
subarticleid: 01520.21
current_num: 152.21
root_num: 531
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee, and the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 0001B.21
current_num: 1B.21
root_num: 1153
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(c) any candidate who, within ten minutes of the announcement in the House of the result of the previous ballot, shall have notified the Member presiding of his intention to withdraw,


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 0001B.24
current_num: 1B.24
root_num: 1156
articleid: 0001B
articlecurrent_num: 1B
articleroot_num: 257
text:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Orders Nos. 9 (Sittings of the House) and 11 (Friday sittings), on any day on which the House meets to elect a Speaker, it shall meet at half-past two o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00030.02
current_num: 3.02
root_num: 62
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 170
text:
Whenever the House shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence or the absence by leave of the House of the Speaker, or where paragraph (3) of this order applies, the Chairman of Ways and Means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of the Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, until the Speaker resumes the chair or, if he does not resume the chair during the course of the sitting, until the next meeting of the House, and so on from day to day, on the like information being given to the House, until the House shall otherwise order:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00030.04
current_num: 3.04
root_num: 1193
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 170
text:
For the purpose of paragraph (2) of this order, the Speaker shall have leave of absence, if he thinks fit, on any Friday on which the House sits.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall meet on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at half-past two o'clock and Thursdays at half-past eleven o'clock and will first proceed with private business, motions for unopposed returns and questions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00090.02
current_num: 9.02
root_num: 389
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday until all the questions asked at the commencement of public business shall have been disposed of, and, save as provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), no Member other than a Minister of the Crown may make such a motion on any day before the orders of the day or notices of motions shall have been entered upon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00090.03
current_num: 9.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At ten o'clock on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and at seven o'clock on Thursdays (the 'moment of interruption'), the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall, save as otherwise provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and report progress and ask leave to sit again; and if a motion has been made for the adjournment of the House (unless that motion is included in a motion to be made after the interruption of business under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business)), or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such motion shall lapse.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00090.06
current_num: 9.06
root_num: 105
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at the moment of interruption has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken, save as provided in Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00090.07
current_num: 9.07
root_num: 204
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution or by the Speaker in pursuance of Standing Order No. 46 (Power of the Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting): Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been made at or after the moment of interruption, the Speaker shall, after the expiration of half an hour after that motion has been made, adjourn the House without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 1194
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
On days on which the House shall sit after an address has been agreed to in answer to Her Majesty's Speech there shall be a sitting in Westminster Hall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.03
current_num: 10.03
root_num: 1196
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
(b) on Thursdays beginning at half-past two o'clock and continuing for up to three hours (and in calculating that period no account shall be taken of any period during which the sitting may be suspended owing to a division being called in the House or a Committee of the whole House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.05
current_num: 10.05
root_num: 1198
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
Subject to paragraph (13) below, the business taken at any sitting in Westminster Hall shall be such as the Chairman of Ways and Means shall appoint and may include oral answers to questions under arrangements to be made by him.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.06
current_num: 10.06
root_num: 1199
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
The Chairman of Ways and Means or a Deputy Chairman shall take the chair in Westminster Hall as Deputy Speaker; and the House may appoint not more than four other members of the Chairmen's Panel to sit in Westminster Hall as Deputy Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.07
current_num: 10.07
root_num: 1200
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
Any member of the Chairmen's Panel may also take the chair at a sitting in Westminster Hall when so requested by the Chairman of Ways and Means, with the duties and powers conferred on additional Deputy Speakers; and Members so appointed shall be addressed by name.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.08
current_num: 10.08
root_num: 1201
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
Any order made or resolution come to at a sitting in Westminster Hall (other than a resolution to adjourn) shall be reported to the House by the Deputy Speaker and shall be deemed to be an order or resolution of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.09
current_num: 10.09
root_num: 1202
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
If a motion be made by a Minister of the Crown that an order of the day be proceeded with at a sitting in Westminster Hall, the question thereon shall be put forthwith, but such motion may be made only with the leave of the House and may not be made on a Friday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.11
current_num: 10.11
root_num: 1204
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
If at a sitting in Westminster Hall the opinion of the Deputy Speaker as to the decision of a question (other than a question for adjournment) is challenged, that question shall not be decided, and the Deputy Speaker shall report to the House accordingly; and any such question shall be put forthwith upon a motion being made in the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.12
current_num: 10.12
root_num: 1205
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
If any business other than a motion for adjournment is under consideration at a sitting in Westminster Hall, and not fewer than six Members rise in their places and signify their objection to further proceedings, that business shall not be further proceeded with in Westminster Hall, and the Deputy Speaker shall report to the House accordingly, and any order under paragraph (7) above relating thereto shall be discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.13
current_num: 10.13
root_num: 1206
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
At the end of each sitting in Westminster Hall, unless a question for adjournment has previously been agreed to, the Deputy Speaker shall adjourn the sitting without putting any question; and proceedings on any business which has been entered upon but not disposed of shall lapse.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.14
current_num: 10.14
root_num: 1207
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
The provisions of Standing Orders No. 29 (Powers of chair to propose question), No. 36 (Closure of debate), No. 37 (Majority for closure or proposal of question), No. 38 (Procedure on divisions), No. 39 (Voting), No. 40 (Division unnecessarily claimed), No. 41 (Quorum), No. 43 (Disorderly conduct), No. 44 (Order in debate), No. 45 (Members suspended, &c., to withdraw from precincts), No. 45A (Suspension of salary of Members suspended) and No. 163 (Motions to sit in private) shall not apply to sittings in Westminster Hall.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00100.15
current_num: 10.15
root_num: 1208
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
In each Session, the Speaker shall appoint not more than six Thursdays on which the business to be taken in Westminster Hall should be debates on select committee reports chosen by the Liaison Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00120.04
current_num: 12.04
root_num: 901
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
articleroot_num: 232
text:
Unless the House shall have resolved to adjourn otherwise than from the previous Thursday to the following Monday, the Fridays so appointed shall be treated as sitting days for the purpose of calculating any period under any order of the House and for the purposes of paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments) and of Standing Order No. 64 (Notices of amendments, &c., to bills); and on such Fridays-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00140.06
current_num: 14.06
root_num: 679
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(i) lapse at seven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or four o'clock on Thursday if not previously concluded, or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00140.07
current_num: 14.07
root_num: 680
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(ii) be set down for consideration at seven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or four o'clock on Thursday and, except on days on which private business has been set down for consideration under the provisions of paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business), shall be entered upon at that time:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00140.08
current_num: 14.08
root_num: 681
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 146
text:
Provided that on days on which business stands over until seven o'clock or four o'clock under the provisions of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) proceedings under this sub-paragraph shall not be entered upon until such business has been disposed of, and may then be proceeded with for three hours, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 194
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
The following business may be proceeded with at any hour though opposed, shall not, save for the purpose of moving a motion pursuant to paragraph (2) of this order, be interrupted at the moment of interruption, and, if under discussion when business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order, may be resumed, though opposed, after the interruption of business:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00150.04
current_num: 15.04
root_num: 744
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
(c) proceedings on a motion such as is referred to in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select committees) for the nomination or discharge of members of select committees appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) which has been opposed at or after the interruption of business on a preceding day: Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion shall be put at eleven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or eight o'clock on Thursday or one hour after the commencement of those proceedings, whichever is the later.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00150.09
current_num: 15.09
root_num: 304
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
or in a form combining any or all of these effects in respect of different items of business, the motion shall stand over and may not be made until after the interruption of business and shall then be proceeded with, though opposed, in accordance with the following paragraphs of this order provided that on any day on which the Speaker is directed to put questions at the moment of interruption pursuant to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 54 (Consideration of estimates), any such motion shall stand over until those questions have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00150.16
current_num: 15.16
root_num: 107
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
Not more than one motion under paragraph (2) of this order may be made at any one sitting and after any business proceeding under the provisions of this order is disposed of after the moment of interruption, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House) applicable to business taken after the moment of interruption.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 277
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 153
text:
No proceedings on a motion to which this order applies shall be entered upon at or after half-past eleven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or half-past eight o'clock on Thursday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00170.02
current_num: 17.02
root_num: 278
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 153
text:
If such a motion is under consideration at half-past eleven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or half-past eight o'clock on Thursday, the Speaker shall forthwith put any question which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair: Provided that, if he shall be of opinion that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00170.06
current_num: 17.06
root_num: 282
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 153
text:
A debate which has been adjourned under paragraph (2) of this order shall not be resumed later than eleven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or eight o'clock on Thursday, but shall stand further adjourned till the next sitting (other than a Friday), and the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall apply to any debate which has been further adjourned under this paragraph as if the further adjournment were an adjournment under paragraph (2) of the order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00200.01
current_num: 20.01
root_num: 195
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 158
text:
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the time for private business shall end not later than a quarter of an hour after the House sits and business entered upon and not disposed of at that hour shall be deferred to such time as the Chairman of Ways and Means may appoint. Business not reached shall stand over to the next sitting, or in the case of opposed business until the next sitting other than a Friday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00200.05
current_num: 20.05
root_num: 158
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 158
text:
Business deferred under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this order shall be considered at the time of private business on the day appointed unless the Chairman of Ways and Means directs that such business shall be set down for seven o'clock on any specified Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or four o'clock on any specified Thursday, and business so set down (including any motion contingent directly or otherwise upon any item of such business) shall be taken in such order as the Chairman of Ways and Means may determine: Provided that business so set down shall be distributed as nearly as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and other sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00200.06
current_num: 20.06
root_num: 308
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 158
text:
On any day specified under paragraph (5) of this order at seven o'clock or four o'clock or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) has been disposed of, the business set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be entered upon and may be proceeded with subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00210.02
current_num: 21.02
root_num: 132
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 216
text:
No question shall be taken more than one hour after the House sits, except questions which have not appeared on the order paper but which are in the Speaker's opinion of an urgent character and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00210.03
current_num: 21.03
root_num: 683
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 216
text:
Any questions tabled for written answer on a day on which the House does not sit by reason of the continuance of a previous sitting shall be deemed to be questions for written answer on the next sitting day and shall appear in the Questions Book for that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.01
current_num: 22.01
root_num: 114
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Notices of questions shall be given by Members in writing to the Table Office in a form determined by the Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.02
current_num: 22.02
root_num: 495
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
A notice of a question, or of an amendment to a motion standing on the order paper for which no day has been fixed or of the addition of a name in support of such a motion or amendment, which is given later than half an hour after the moment of interruption shall be treated for all purposes as if it were a notice handed in after the rising of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.04
current_num: 22.04
root_num: 485
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Where a Member has indicated that a question is for written answer on a named day the Minister shall cause an answer to be given to the Member on the date for which notice has been given, provided that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.05
current_num: 22.05
root_num: 1209
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(a) notice has appeared at latest on the notice paper circulated two days (excluding Saturday and Sunday) before that on which an answer is desired; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.07
current_num: 22.07
root_num: 1211
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Notice of a question for oral answer may be given only for answer on the next day on which the Member to whom it is addressed is due to give oral answers; and in respect of each such day the Speaker shall specify the latest date and time at which notice may be given and how many questions are to be printed for each Member answering; and only that number of notices of questions (selected at random from those received in a manner to be prescribed by the Speaker) shall be treated as valid notices received on the day concerned: Provided that the latest date and time specified by the Speaker shall be such as to enable the notices selected to be printed and circulated-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.08
current_num: 22.08
root_num: 1212
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(a) in the case of questions to the Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales at least four days (excluding Friday, Saturday and Sunday) before the question is to be answered or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.09
current_num: 22.09
root_num: 1213
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(b) in the case of questions to other Ministers, at least two days (excluding Friday, Saturday and Sunday) before the question is to be answered.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00220.10
current_num: 22.10
root_num: 721
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
When it is proposed that the House should adjourn for a period of more than three days the Speaker shall cause to have printed and circulated with the Vote a memorandum superseding the provisions of paragraphs (4) and (5) of this order and specifying the arrangements for tabling questions during the adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 0022A.01
current_num: 22A.01
root_num: 1214
articleid: 0022A
articlecurrent_num: 22A
articleroot_num: 262
text:
A Minister of the Crown, being a Member of the House, may give notice of his intention to make a ministerial statement in written form on a specified day not later than five sitting days after the day on which notice was given: and such statements shall be printed in the Official Report.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00240.02
current_num: 24.02
root_num: 340
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 77
text:
If leave is given or the motion is so supported or the House so determines that it shall be made the motion shall stand over until the commencement of public business on the following day (or, on Thursdays, until the commencement of public business on the following Monday) when proceedings upon it shall be interrupted after three hours, or, if the Speaker directs that the urgency of the matter so requires, until seven o'clock on the same day if it is a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or four o'clock if it is a Thursday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00240.03
current_num: 24.03
root_num: 341
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 77
text:
A Member intending to propose to move the adjournment of the House under the provisions of this order shall give notice to the Speaker by twelve o'clock on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or half-past Ten o'clock on a Thursday, if the urgency of the matter is known at that hour. If the urgency is not so known he shall give notice as soon thereafter as is practicable. If the Speaker so desires he may defer giving his decision upon whether the matter is proper to be discussed until a named hour, when he may interrupt the proceedings of the House for the purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00240.07
current_num: 24.07
root_num: 209
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 77
text:
Proceedings on any business postponed at seven o'clock or four o'clock under this order may be resumed at the conclusion of proceedings on the aforesaid motion for the adjournment of the House unless such motion is agreed to, shall not be interrupted, except as provided in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), may be proceeded with for such further period of time as would have been permissible under any orders of the House at the time when they were postponed had no such motion then been made, and shall not be subject to the provisions of any such orders with regard to the disposal of the business until the conclusion of the said period.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00420.01
current_num: 42.01
root_num: 91
articleid: 00420
articlecurrent_num: 42
articleroot_num: 80
text:
The Speaker, or the chairman, after having called the attention of the House, or of the committee, to the conduct of a Member who persists in irrelevance, or tedious repetition either of his own arguments or of the arguments used by other Members in debate, may direct him to discontinue his speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 696
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 212
text:
The Speaker may announce at or before the commencement of proceedings on any motion or order of the day relating to public business that he intends to call Members to speak in the debate thereon, or between certain hours during that debate, for no longer than any period he may specify (which shall not be less than eight minutes), and whenever the Speaker has made such an announcement he shall, subject to paragraph (2), direct any Member (other than a Minister of the Crown, a Member speaking on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, or not more than one Member nominated by the leader of the second largest opposition party) who has spoken for that period to resume his seat forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00470.02
current_num: 47.02
root_num: 1215
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 212
text:
In relation to any speech, the Speaker shall add to any period specified in paragraph (1) of this order-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00470.04
current_num: 47.04
root_num: 1217
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 212
text:
(b) two minutes if two or more interventions are accepted, plus the time taken by the first two such interventions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00540.04
current_num: 54.04
root_num: 402
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
(b) other business may be taken before the moment of interruption only if the consideration of estimates has been concluded.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00540.06
current_num: 54.06
root_num: 687
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
(a) proceedings on consideration of estimates or reports of the Liaison Committee relating thereo, standing as first business, shall be interrupted at seven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or four o'clock on Thursday; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00540.07
current_num: 54.07
root_num: 688
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
(b) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of this order, consideration of estimates or reports of the Liaison Committee relating thereto may be set down for consideration at seven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or four o'clock on Thursday and shall be entered upon at that time:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00540.08
current_num: 54.08
root_num: 689
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Provided that on days on which business stands over until seven o'clock or four o'clock under the provisions of Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) or has been set down for that hour under the provisions of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business) proceedings under this sub-paragraph shall not be entered upon until such business has been disposed of and may then be proceeded with for three hours, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00540.10
current_num: 54.10
root_num: 691
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At the moment of interruption on an allotted day or half day, or as soon thereafter as proceedings under the proviso to paragraph (3)(b) of this order have been disposed of, the Speaker shall put, successively, any questions deferred under paragraph (4) of this order, and any questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on all other estimates appointed for consideration on that day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00550.01
current_num: 55.01
root_num: 430
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
On any day to which the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) or (4) of this order apply the Speaker shall at the moment of interruption put the questions on-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00880.01
current_num: 88.01
root_num: 224
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 135
text:
A standing committee to which a bill or other business has been or stands committed shall meet to consider such business on the day and at the hour named by the Member appointed chairman of the committee in respect of that business. If the consideration of the business is not completed at that sitting the committee shall meet further to consider the business on such days of the week and at such times as may be appointed by the committee:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00880.02
current_num: 88.02
root_num: 226
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 135
text:
Provided that no standing committee shall sit at Westminster, on a day on which the House sits, between the hours of one o'clock and half-past three o'clock in the afternoon on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays or between the hours of twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon on Thursdays, except as hereinafter provided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00880.03
current_num: 88.03
root_num: 227
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 135
text:
If a standing committee to which the proviso to paragraph (1) of this order applies is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without putting any question at one o'clock or twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock as the case may be, save as provided in Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)), Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) and Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)); Provided that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00880.04
current_num: 88.04
root_num: 228
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 135
text:
(i) if, in the opinion of the chairman, the proceedings on a bill or other business could be brought to a final conclusion by a short extension of the sitting, he may defer adjourning the committee for a quarter of an hour;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00940.05
current_num: 94.05
root_num: 800
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 220
text:
Notices of questions under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which an answer is desired save where otherwise provided by a memorandum under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments): Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 00990.12
current_num: 99.12
root_num: 836
articleid: 00990
articlecurrent_num: 99
articleroot_num: 224
text:
Provided that a day specified in an order of the House under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)) on which business is to be interrupted five hours or more after the commencement of the sitting shall, if no business other than that to which this order applies is set down for consideration on that day, be deemed to be two days for the purposes of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 01000.10
current_num: 100.10
root_num: 847
articleid: 01000
articlecurrent_num: 100
articleroot_num: 225
text:
The chairman shall interrupt proceedings (other than on a motion made under paragraph (6) below) at the time specified in relation to the sitting by an order made under paragraph (1) above, or, in the absence of such provision, at one o'clock on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and at twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock on Thursdays, subject to paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 01030.05
current_num: 103.05
root_num: 962
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 239
text:
Notices of questions under this order may be given ten sitting days before that on which an answer is desired, save where otherwise provided by a memorandum under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments): Provided that when it is proposed that the House shall adjourn for a period of fewer than four days, any day during that period (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) shall be counted as a sitting day for the purposes of the calculation made under this paragraph.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 01080.10
current_num: 108.10
root_num: 987
articleid: 01080
articlecurrent_num: 108
articleroot_num: 242
text:
The chairman shall interrupt proceedings (other than on a motion made under paragraph (5) below) at the time specified in relation to the sitting by an order made under paragraph (1) above or, in the absence of such provision, at one o'clock on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and at twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock on Thursdays, subject to paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 01450.04
current_num: 145.04
root_num: 922
articleid: 01450
articlecurrent_num: 145
articleroot_num: 194
text:
(c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (13) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 01540.04
current_num: 154.04
root_num: 715
articleid: 01540
articlecurrent_num: 154
articleroot_num: 5
text:
Proceedings under paragraph (1)(a) and (1)(b) of this order shall not be interrupted at the moment of interruption.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2002-10-29
subarticleid: 01550.01
current_num: 155.01
root_num: 12
articleid: 01550
articlecurrent_num: 155
articleroot_num: 7
text:
In the case of a petition presented under Standing Order No. 153 (Presentation of petitions) and complaining of some present personal grievance, for which there may be an urgent necessity for providing an immediate remedy, the matter contained in such petition may be brought into discussion on the presentation thereof and proceedings under this order may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-09
subarticleid: 0057A.02
current_num: 57A.02
root_num: 1219
articleid: 0057A
articlecurrent_num: 57A
articleroot_num: 263
text:
If a public bill is passed by the Lords and carried to the office of the Clerk of the House at a time when this House is not sitting, then, provided that a Member shall have notified the Clerks at the Table, in writing, of his intention to take charge of the bill-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-09
subarticleid: 0057A.03
current_num: 57A.03
root_num: 1220
articleid: 0057A
articlecurrent_num: 57A
articleroot_num: 263
text:
(a) the Clerk of the House shall arrange for the printing and circulation of copies of the bill, and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-09
subarticleid: 0057A.04
current_num: 57A.04
root_num: 1221
articleid: 0057A
articlecurrent_num: 57A
articleroot_num: 263
text:
(b) the bill shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having been read the first time on the next sitting day and as having been ordered to be printed pursuant to this standing order and to be read a second time on such day as the Member shall have appointed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-09
subarticleid: 00780.01
current_num: 78.01
root_num: 56
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 52
text:
Lords amendments to public bills and Lords reasons shall be appointed to be considered on a future day, unless the House shall order them to be considered forthwith, and the provisions of Standing Order No. 57A (Bills brought from the Lords) shall apply to the appointment of consideration and the printing of Lords amendments and reasons as they apply to the appointment of second reading and the printing of bills brought from the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-09
subarticleid: 00780.02
current_num: 78.02
root_num: 369
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 52
text:
When the order of the day for the consideration of Lords amendments to a public bill or Lords reasons has been read, the House shall proceed to consider the same without question put, unless the Member in charge thereof nominates a future day for their consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-23
subarticleid: 00220.08
current_num: 22.08
root_num: 1212
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(a) in the case of questions to the Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the Advocate General at least four days (excluding Friday, Saturday and Sunday) before the question is to be answered or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.10
current_num: 152.10
root_num: 525
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
7 Home Affairs | Home Office; and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.12
current_num: 152.12
root_num: 1222
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
9 Lord Chancellor's Department | Lord Chancellor's Department (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.13
current_num: 152.13
root_num: 787
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
10 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.14
current_num: 152.14
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
11 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.16
current_num: 152.16
root_num: 549
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
13 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.17
current_num: 152.17
root_num: 526
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
14 Trade and Industry | Department of Trade and Industry (but excluding the Office of Science and Technology) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-01-27
subarticleid: 01520.20
current_num: 152.20
root_num: 539
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
17 Welsh Affairs | Welsh Office (Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales)) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-05-12
subarticleid: 01310.01
current_num: 131.01
root_num: 47
articleid: 01310
articlecurrent_num: 131
articleroot_num: 43
text:
To every question or series of questions asked of a witness under examination in the proceedings of a select committee, there shall be prefixed the name of the inquiring Member.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01490.08
current_num: 149.08
root_num: 930
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee and any sub-committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time, to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.10
current_num: 150.10
root_num: 943
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
and to report to the Committee on Standards and Privileges or to an appropriate sub-committee thereof unless the provisions of paragraph (3) apply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.11
current_num: 150.11
root_num: 1223
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
No report shall be made by the Commissioner if, in any case where the Member concerned has agreed that he has failed to register or declare an interest, it is the Commissioner's opinion that the interest involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent, and the Member concerned has taken such action by way of rectification as the Commissioner may have required within any procedure approved by the Committee for this purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.12
current_num: 150.12
root_num: 1224
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
The Commissioner may at any time in the course of investigating a complaint, and if so requested by the Committee on Standards and Privileges shall, appoint an Investigatory Panel to assist him in establishing the facts relevant to the investigation.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.14
current_num: 150.14
root_num: 1226
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(a) consist of the Commissioner, who shall be Chairman of the Panel, and two assessors, one of whom shall be a legally qualified person appointed by the Commissioner and the other shall be a Member, who shall not be a member of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, appointed by the Speaker; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.19
current_num: 150.19
root_num: 1231
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
Any report that the Commissioner may have made to the Committee on Standards and Privileges in relation to the complaint before the appointment of the Panel shall be made available to the Panel by the Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.20
current_num: 150.20
root_num: 1232
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
Any Member who is the subject of the complaint under investigation shall, if he so requests, be heard by the Panel; may call witnesses; and may examine other witnesses.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.23
current_num: 150.23
root_num: 1235
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(b) the legal assessor shall report to the Committee on Standards and Privileges his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have been consistent with the principles of natural justice; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.24
current_num: 150.24
root_num: 1236
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(c) the Member assessor may report to the Committee on Standards and Privileges his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have had regard to the customs and practice of the House and its Members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-06-26
subarticleid: 01500.26
current_num: 150.26
root_num: 944
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
The Commissioner may be dismissed only following a resolution of the House, moved for by a Member of the House of Commons Commission, after the Committee on Standards and Privileges has reported to the House that it is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold his office or unable to carry out his functions; and any such report shall include a statement of the Committee's reasons for its conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-09-11
subarticleid: 00940.01
current_num: 94.01
root_num: 796
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 220
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Scottish Grand Committee by Scotland Office ministers or Scottish law officers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 100 (Scottish Grand Committee (sittings)), may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-09-11
subarticleid: 01030.01
current_num: 103.01
root_num: 958
articleid: 01030
articlecurrent_num: 103
articleroot_num: 239
text:
Notices of questions for oral answer in the Welsh Grand Committee by Wales Office ministers on a day specified in an order made under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 108 (Welsh Grand Committee (sittings)) may be given by members of the committee in the Table Office.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-09-11
subarticleid: 01190.11
current_num: 119.11
root_num: 731
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-09-11
subarticleid: 01190.12
current_num: 119.12
root_num: 1081
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
B | HM Treasury (including HM Customs and Excise); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Department for Constitutional Affairs (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Standing Committee A); together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-09-11
subarticleid: 01520.04
current_num: 152.04
root_num: 1222
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
1 Constitutional Affairs | Department for Constitutional Affairs (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2003-09-11
subarticleid: 01520.11
current_num: 152.11
root_num: 525
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
8 Home Affairs | Home Office; and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-01-29
subarticleid: 0152D.02
current_num: 152D.02
root_num: 1239
articleid: 0152D
articlecurrent_num: 152D
articleroot_num: 264
text:
The members of the committee shall be those Members who are at any time members of the House of Commons Commission pursuant to section 1 of the House of Commons (Administration) Act 1978; the Speaker shall be chairman of the committee; and three shall be the quorum of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-01-29
subarticleid: 0152D.04
current_num: 152D.04
root_num: 1241
articleid: 0152D
articlecurrent_num: 152D
articleroot_num: 264
text:
(a) to codify and keep under review the provisions of the resolutions of this House relating to expenditure charged to the Estimate for House of Commons: Members;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-01-29
subarticleid: 0152D.05
current_num: 152D.05
root_num: 1242
articleid: 0152D
articlecurrent_num: 152D
articleroot_num: 264
text:
(b) to modify those provisions from time to time as the committee may think necessary or desirable in the interests of clarity, consistency, accountability and effective administration, and conformity with current circumstances;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-01-29
subarticleid: 0152D.06
current_num: 152D.06
root_num: 1243
articleid: 0152D
articlecurrent_num: 152D
articleroot_num: 264
text:
(c) to provide advice, when requested by the Speaker, on the application of those provisions in individual cases;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-01-29
subarticleid: 0152D.07
current_num: 152D.07
root_num: 1244
articleid: 0152D
articlecurrent_num: 152D
articleroot_num: 264
text:
(d) to carry out the responsibilities conferred on the Speaker by the resolution of the House of 5th July 2001 relating to Members' Allowances, Insurance, &c., except the responsibility of appointing the Advisory Panel provided for in paragraph (5)(1) of that Resolution.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-01-29
subarticleid: 0152D.11
current_num: 152D.11
root_num: 1248
articleid: 0152D
articlecurrent_num: 152D
articleroot_num: 264
text:
The committee shall report to the House from time to time, and in any case not less than once a year, the provisions of the resolutions of this House relating to expenditure charged to the Estimate for House of Commons: Members, as codified and modified pursuant to paragraph (3) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-05-12
subarticleid: 00550.03
current_num: 55.03
root_num: 1250
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
(b) any motion authorising amounts and limits on appropriations in aid, set out in outstanding estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-05-12
subarticleid: 00550.06
current_num: 55.06
root_num: 416
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
(b) supplementary and new estimates for the current financial year which have been presented at least fourteen days previously.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-05-12
subarticleid: 00550.09
current_num: 55.09
root_num: 421
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
(b) supplementary and new estimates for the current financial year which have been presented at least fourteen days previously;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-05-12
subarticleid: 00550.10
current_num: 55.10
root_num: 423
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
(c) excess votes, provided that the Committee of Public Accounts has reported that it sees no objection to the amounts and modifications to limits on appropriations in aid necessary being authorised by excess vote.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-05-12
subarticleid: 00550.11
current_num: 55.11
root_num: 335
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
The provisions of paragraph (1) of this order shall apply on a day not later than 5th August in respect of any motion authorising amounts, and limits on appropriations in aid, set out in outstanding estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-05-12
subarticleid: 00550.12
current_num: 55.12
root_num: 336
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 209
text:
At least two days' notice shall be given of the motions which are to be put down for consideration under paragraphs (2), (3) or (4) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-06-07
subarticleid: 00150.04
current_num: 15.04
root_num: 744
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 157
text:
(c) proceedings on a motion such as is referred to in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select committees) for the nomination or discharge of members of select committees to which that paragraph applies which has been opposed at or after the interruption of business on a preceding day: Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion shall be put at eleven o'clock on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or eight o'clock on Thursday or one hour after the commencement of those proceedings, whichever is the later.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-06-07
subarticleid: 01210.02
current_num: 121.02
root_num: 576
articleid: 01210
articlecurrent_num: 121
articleroot_num: 40
text:
No motion shall be made for the nomination of members of select committees appointed under the standing orders of this House (with the exception of the Liaison Committee, the Committee of Selection, the Committee on Standards and Privileges and any Committee established under a temporary standing order), or for their discharge, unless-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.01
current_num: 41A.01
root_num: 1251
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
Except as provided in paragraph (2), Standing Order No. 38 (Procedure on divisions) shall not apply if, after the time for the interruption of business, the opinion of the Speaker as to the decision on a question is challenged in respect of any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.02
current_num: 41A.02
root_num: 1252
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
Standing Order No. 38 (Procedure on divisions) shall apply (and this order shall not apply) to questions-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.03
current_num: 41A.03
root_num: 1253
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
(a) on motions or amendments in the course of proceedings on bills or allocating time to or programming such proceedings;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.05
current_num: 41A.05
root_num: 1255
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
(c) on motions to be disposed of immediately following the disposal of amendments proposed thereto, and on such amendments;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.09
current_num: 41A.09
root_num: 1259
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
(iii) sub-paragraph (1)(a) of Standing Order No. 52 (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills);


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.12
current_num: 41A.12
root_num: 1262
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
(e) on motions made under paragraph (3) below or to which an order made under that paragraph applies.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.13
current_num: 41A.13
root_num: 1263
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
After the moment of interruption and the conclusion of proceedings under any other Standing Order which fall to be taken immediately after it, a Minister of the Crown may make a motion to the effect that this order shall not apply to questions on any specified motions; such motion may be proceeded with, though opposed, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.14
current_num: 41A.14
root_num: 1264
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
If the opinion of the Speaker is challenged under paragraph (1) of this order, he shall defer the division until half-past three o'clock on the next Wednesday on which the House shall sit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.17
current_num: 41A.17
root_num: 1267
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
(b) votes may be recorded for one and a half hours after half-past three o'clock, no account being taken of any period during which the House or committee proceeds to a division; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0041A.18
current_num: 41A.18
root_num: 1268
articleid: 0041A
articlecurrent_num: 41A
articleroot_num: 265
text:
(c) the Speaker, or the chairman, shall announce the result of the deferred division as soon as may be after the expiry of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 696
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 212
text:
The Speaker may announce at or before the commencement of proceedings on any motion or order of the day relating to public business that he intends to call Members to speak in the debate thereon, or at certain times during that debate, for no longer than any period he may specify (which shall not be less than eight minutes), and whenever the Speaker has made such an announcement he shall, subject to paragraph (2), direct any Member (other than a Minister of the Crown, a Member speaking on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, or not more than one Member nominated by the leader of the second largest opposition party) who has spoken for that period to resume his seat forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.01
current_num: 80A.01
root_num: 1269
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
Subject to the following provisions of this order, a Minister of the Crown may give notice of a motion (a 'carry-over motion') that proceedings on a public bill not completed before the end of the Session shall be resumed in the next Session of Parliament; and the Speaker shall put any question necessary to dispose of proceedings on such a motion-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.03
current_num: 80A.03
root_num: 1271
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
(b) not more than one and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the motion if the motion is made at any other time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.06
current_num: 80A.06
root_num: 1274
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
A carry-over motion shall not be made in respect of a bill carried over from a previous Session of Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.08
current_num: 80A.08
root_num: 1276
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
The provisions of this order shall not apply to a carry-over motion made in respect of a bill brought from the Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.09
current_num: 80A.09
root_num: 1277
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
Paragraphs (8) to (11) of this order shall apply to any bill ordered to be carried over to the next Session of Parliament in pursuance of a carry-over motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.10
current_num: 80A.10
root_num: 1278
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
If proceedings in committee on the bill are begun but not completed before the end of the first Session, the chairman shall report the bill to the House as so far amended and the bill shall be ordered to lie upon the Table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.11
current_num: 80A.11
root_num: 1279
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
In any other case, proceedings on the bill shall be suspended at the conclusion of the Session in which the bill was first introduced.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.12
current_num: 80A.12
root_num: 1280
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
If a bill is presented in the next Session in the same terms as the bill reported to the House under paragraph (8) or as it stood when proceedings were suspended under paragraph (9), the bill shall be read the first and second time without question put, shall be ordered to be printed, and-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.13
current_num: 80A.13
root_num: 1281
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
(a) in the case of a bill reported from a standing committee under paragraph (8), shall stand committed to a standing committee in respect of those clauses and schedules not ordered to stand part of the bill in the first Session;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.14
current_num: 80A.14
root_num: 1282
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
(b) in the case of a bill reported from a committee of the whole House under paragraph (8), shall stand committed to a committee of the whole House in respect of those clauses and schedules not ordered to stand part of the bill in the first Session;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.15
current_num: 80A.15
root_num: 1283
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
(c) in the case of a bill committed to a standing committee but on which proceedings on the bill were not begun, shall again stand committed to a standing committee;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.16
current_num: 80A.16
root_num: 1284
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
(d) otherwise shall be set down as an order of the day for (as the case may be) committee, consideration, further consideration or third reading.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.17
current_num: 80A.17
root_num: 1285
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
Notices of amendments, new clauses and new schedules given in respect of parts of a bill not disposed of in the first Session shall be reprinted as notices in respect of the bill as presented and proceeded with under paragraph (10).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.18
current_num: 80A.18
root_num: 1286
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
A programme order relating to a bill which is carried over to the next session of Parliament shall continue to apply in the next session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.19
current_num: 80A.19
root_num: 1287
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
Proceedings on a bill ordered to be carried over to the next Session of Parliament shall lapse on the expiry of the period of twelve months from the date of its first reading in this House and the bill shall be laid aside unless the House shall order, in pursuance of a motion under paragraph (14), that proceedings on the bill be extended for a specified period.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.20
current_num: 80A.20
root_num: 1288
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown to extend for a specified period proceedings on a bill which would otherwise lapse under paragraph (13), and any such motion-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0080A.23
current_num: 80A.23
root_num: 1291
articleid: 0080A
articlecurrent_num: 80A
articleroot_num: 266
text:
and the Speaker shall put any question necessary to dispose of proceedings on any such motion not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of those proceedings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.04
current_num: 83A.04
root_num: 1295
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
is given by a Minister of the Crown, the motion may be made immediately after second reading, and Standing Order No. 63 (Committal of bills) shall not apply to the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.11
current_num: 83A.11
root_num: 1302
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
(a) a standing committee has reported a resolution under paragraph (12) of Standing Order No. 83C (Programming sub-committees) proposing an alteration of the date by which the bill is to be reported to the House, and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.12
current_num: 83A.12
root_num: 1303
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
(b) the motion made under paragraph (13) of Standing Order No. 83C does not give effect to the standing committee's proposal.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.13
current_num: 83A.13
root_num: 1304
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
The second exception is where the motion makes further provision for proceedings on consideration and third reading of the bill otherwise than in accordance with a resolution of a programming committee under paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) or a resolution of a standing committee under paragraph (14) of Standing Order No. 83C.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.14
current_num: 83A.14
root_num: 1305
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
The third exception is where the motion reduces the amount of time allocated under a programme order for any proceedings on the bill (whether or not it also increases the amount of time allocated for other proceedings on the bill).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.15
current_num: 83A.15
root_num: 1306
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
If any of the exceptions applies, any question necessary to dispose of proceedings on a programme motion is to be put not later than three-quarters of an hour after the commencement of proceedings on the motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083A.18
current_num: 83A.18
root_num: 1309
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
If a programme order applies to a bill, neither Standing Order No. 82 (Business Committee) nor Standing Order No. 120 (Business sub-committees) applies to the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083B.01
current_num: 83B.01
root_num: 1310
articleid: 0083B
articlecurrent_num: 83B
articleroot_num: 268
text:
This order applies if proceedings in committee of the whole House or on consideration and third reading are subject to a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083B.07
current_num: 83B.07
root_num: 1316
articleid: 0083B
articlecurrent_num: 83B
articleroot_num: 268
text:
The programming committee shall consider the allocation of time to proceedings in committee of the whole House or on consideration and third reading and report any resolution which it makes to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083B.08
current_num: 83B.08
root_num: 1317
articleid: 0083B
articlecurrent_num: 83B
articleroot_num: 268
text:
Proceedings in the programming committee shall be brought to a conclusion not later than two hours after their commencement.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083B.09
current_num: 83B.09
root_num: 1318
articleid: 0083B
articlecurrent_num: 83B
articleroot_num: 268
text:
For the purposes of bringing any proceedings to a conclusion in accordance with paragraph (6), the chairman shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083B.10
current_num: 83B.10
root_num: 1319
articleid: 0083B
articlecurrent_num: 83B
articleroot_num: 268
text:
(a) first put forthwith any question which has been proposed from the chair and not yet decided; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083B.14
current_num: 83B.14
root_num: 1323
articleid: 0083B
articlecurrent_num: 83B
articleroot_num: 268
text:
(b) subject to the powers of the Speaker or chairman to select the amendments, new clauses and new schedules to be proposed, may include alterations in the order in which specified proceedings on the bill are to be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.01
current_num: 83C.01
root_num: 1324
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
If a bill is subject to a programme order which commits it to a standing committee, the order stands referred to the committee and, subject to paragraph (10) of this order, shall be considered by a sub-committee of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.04
current_num: 83C.04
root_num: 1327
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
(a) the chairman or one of the chairmen of the committee (who is to be chairman of the sub-committee); and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.10
current_num: 83C.10
root_num: 1333
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
(c) the time at which any proceedings, if not previously concluded, are to be brought to a conclusion;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.13
current_num: 83C.13
root_num: 1336
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
Proceedings in the programming sub-committee shall be brought to a conclusion not later than two hours after their commencement.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.19
current_num: 83C.19
root_num: 1342
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
(b) subject to the powers of the chairman to select the amendments, new clauses and new schedules to be proposed, may include alterations in the order in which specified proceedings are to be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.20
current_num: 83C.20
root_num: 1343
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
On a motion in the terms of a resolution of the programming sub-committee being made in the committee, any question necessary to dispose of proceedings on the motion is to be put not later than half an hour after the commencement of those proceedings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.21
current_num: 83C.21
root_num: 1344
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
A Minister of the Crown may make any motion in a standing committee which could have been the subject of a resolution of the programming sub-committee; and for the purposes of this order the motion shall be treated as if it were in the terms of a resolution of the programming sub-committee: provided that proceedings on such a motion shall lapse if any member of the committee signifies objection to it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.22
current_num: 83C.22
root_num: 1345
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
If the provisions of a resolution of the programming sub-committee under sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (5) are agreed to (with or without modification) by the committee, the provisions (or the provisions as modified) are to have effect as if they were included in the programme order for the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.27
current_num: 83C.27
root_num: 1350
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
If a resolution is reported proposing an alteration to the date by which the bill is to be reported to the House, a supplemental programme motion shall be set down for a day not later than the fifth sitting day after the day when the report was made which may-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083C.31
current_num: 83C.31
root_num: 1354
articleid: 0083C
articlecurrent_num: 83C
articleroot_num: 269
text:
If a resolution is reported making a recommendation about the programming of the bill on consideration and third reading, a supplemental programme motion shall be set down before the consideration of the bill on report which may-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.01
current_num: 83D.01
root_num: 1358
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
This order applies for the purpose of bringing proceedings in standing committee or in committee of the whole House to a conclusion in accordance with a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.02
current_num: 83D.02
root_num: 1359
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
The chairman shall put forthwith the following questions (but no others) in the same order as they would fall to be put if this order did not apply-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.05
current_num: 83D.05
root_num: 1362
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
(c) the question on any amendment, new clause or new schedule selected by the chairman for separate decision;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.08
current_num: 83D.08
root_num: 1365
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
On a motion made for a new clause or a new schedule, the chairman shall put only the question that the clause or schedule be added to the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.09
current_num: 83D.09
root_num: 1366
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
If two or more questions would fall to be put under paragraph (2)(d) on successive amendments moved or motions made by a Minister of the Crown, the chairman shall instead put a single question in relation to those amendments or motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.10
current_num: 83D.10
root_num: 1367
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
If two or more questions would fall to be put under paragraph (2)(e) in relation to successive provisions of the bill, the chairman shall instead put a single question in relation to those provisions, except that the question shall be put separately on any clause of or schedule to the bill which a Minister of the Crown has signified an intention to leave out.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083D.11
current_num: 83D.11
root_num: 1368
articleid: 0083D
articlecurrent_num: 83D
articleroot_num: 270
text:
On conclusion of the proceedings in a committee, the chairman shall report the bill (or such of the bill's provisions as were committed to it) to the House without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083E.01
current_num: 83E.01
root_num: 1369
articleid: 0083E
articlecurrent_num: 83E
articleroot_num: 271
text:
This order applies for the purpose of bringing proceedings on consideration and third reading to a conclusion in accordance with a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083E.02
current_num: 83E.02
root_num: 1370
articleid: 0083E
articlecurrent_num: 83E
articleroot_num: 271
text:
The Speaker shall put forthwith the following questions (but no others) in the same order as they would fall to be put if this order did not apply-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083E.05
current_num: 83E.05
root_num: 1373
articleid: 0083E
articlecurrent_num: 83E
articleroot_num: 271
text:
(c) the question on any amendment, new clause or new schedule selected by the Speaker for separate decision;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083E.08
current_num: 83E.08
root_num: 1376
articleid: 0083E
articlecurrent_num: 83E
articleroot_num: 271
text:
On a motion made for a new clause or a new schedule, the Speaker shall put only the question that the clause or schedule be added to the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083E.09
current_num: 83E.09
root_num: 1377
articleid: 0083E
articlecurrent_num: 83E
articleroot_num: 271
text:
If two or more questions would fall to be put under paragraph (2)(d) on successive amendments moved or motions made by a Minister of the Crown, the Speaker shall instead put a single question in relation to those amendments or motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.01
current_num: 83F.01
root_num: 1378
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
This order applies for the purpose of bringing proceedings on consideration of Lords amendments to a conclusion in accordance with a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.02
current_num: 83F.02
root_num: 1379
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
The Speaker shall first put forthwith any question which has been proposed from the chair and not yet decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.04
current_num: 83F.04
root_num: 1381
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
(a) a single question on any further amendments of the Lords amendment moved by a Minister of the Crown; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.05
current_num: 83F.05
root_num: 1382
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
(b) the question on any motion made by a Minister of the Crown that this House agrees or disagrees with the Lords in their amendment or (as the case may be) in their amendment as amended.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.09
current_num: 83F.09
root_num: 1386
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
The Speaker shall then put forthwith the question on any motion made by a Minister of the Crown that this House disagrees with the Lords in a Lords amendment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.10
current_num: 83F.10
root_num: 1387
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
The Speaker shall then put forthwith the question that this House agrees with the Lords in all the remaining Lords Amendments.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083F.14
current_num: 83F.14
root_num: 1391
articleid: 0083F
articlecurrent_num: 83F
articleroot_num: 272
text:
the Speaker shall put forthwith a single question on any amendments moved by a Minister of the Crown relevant to the Lords Amendment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083G.01
current_num: 83G.01
root_num: 1392
articleid: 0083G
articlecurrent_num: 83G
articleroot_num: 273
text:
This order applies for the purpose of bringing proceedings on any further message from the Lords to a conclusion in accordance with a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083G.03
current_num: 83G.03
root_num: 1394
articleid: 0083G
articlecurrent_num: 83G
articleroot_num: 273
text:
The Speaker shall then put forthwith the question on any motion made by a Minister of the Crown which is related to the question already proposed from the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083G.04
current_num: 83G.04
root_num: 1395
articleid: 0083G
articlecurrent_num: 83G
articleroot_num: 273
text:
The Speaker shall then put forthwith the question on any motion made by a Minister on or relevant to any of the remaining items in the Lords message.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083G.05
current_num: 83G.05
root_num: 1396
articleid: 0083G
articlecurrent_num: 83G
articleroot_num: 273
text:
The Speaker shall then put forthwith the question that this House agrees with the Lords in all of the remaining Lords proposals.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083H.01
current_num: 83H.01
root_num: 1397
articleid: 0083H
articlecurrent_num: 83H
articleroot_num: 274
text:
This order applies in relation to any committee to be appointed to draw up reasons after proceedings have been brought to a conclusion in accordance with a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083H.02
current_num: 83H.02
root_num: 1398
articleid: 0083H
articlecurrent_num: 83H
articleroot_num: 274
text:
The Speaker shall put forthwith the question on any motion made by a Minister of the Crown for the appointment, nomination and quorum of a committee to draw up reasons and the appointment of its chairman.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083H.04
current_num: 83H.04
root_num: 1400
articleid: 0083H
articlecurrent_num: 83H
articleroot_num: 274
text:
Proceedings in the committee shall be brought to a conclusion not later than half an hour after their commencement.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083H.05
current_num: 83H.05
root_num: 1401
articleid: 0083H
articlecurrent_num: 83H
articleroot_num: 274
text:
For the purpose of bringing any proceedings to a conclusion in accordance with paragraph (4), the chairman shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083H.07
current_num: 83H.07
root_num: 1403
articleid: 0083H
articlecurrent_num: 83H
articleroot_num: 274
text:
(b) then put forthwith successively questions on motions which may be made by a Minister of the Crown for assigning a reason for disagreeing with the Lords in any of their amendments.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.01
current_num: 83I.01
root_num: 1405
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
The provisions of this order apply to proceedings in the House or in committee of the whole House on a bill which is subject to a programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.02
current_num: 83I.02
root_num: 1406
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
Standing Order No. 15(1) (Exempted business) applies to the proceedings for any period after ten o'clock (or on Thursday, seven o'clock) allocated to them in accordance with the programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.03
current_num: 83I.03
root_num: 1407
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
The proceedings may not be interrupted under any Standing Order relating to the sittings of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.04
current_num: 83I.04
root_num: 1408
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
If, on a day on which the bill has been set down to be taken as an order of the day, a motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) would, apart from this order, stand over to seven o'clock-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.05
current_num: 83I.05
root_num: 1409
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
(a) that motion stands over until the conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to conclusion at or before that time; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.06
current_num: 83I.06
root_num: 1410
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
(b) the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion after that time is postponed for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.07
current_num: 83I.07
root_num: 1411
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
If a day on which the bill has been set down to be taken as an order of the day is one to which a motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 stands over from an earlier day, the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion on that day is postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.08
current_num: 83I.08
root_num: 1412
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
No dilatory motion may be made in relation to the proceedings except by a Minister of the Crown; and the question on any such motion is to be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 0083I.09
current_num: 83I.09
root_num: 1413
articleid: 0083I
articlecurrent_num: 83I
articleroot_num: 275
text:
If at any sitting the House is adjourned, or the sitting is suspended, before the expiry of the period at the end of which proceedings are to be brought to a conclusion under a programme order, no notice is required of a motion made at the next sitting by a Minister of the Crown for varying or supplementing the provisions of the programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 00890.06
current_num: 89.06
root_num: 175
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 175
text:
(d) The following Standing Orders shall apply to standing committees: No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), No. 128 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), and No. 129 (Minutes of proceedings to be laid on the Table).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 01250.01
current_num: 125.01
root_num: 462
articleid: 01250
articlecurrent_num: 125
articleroot_num: 178
text:
A select committee shall have power, if it so orders, to admit the public during the examination of witnesses.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 01490.11
current_num: 149.11
root_num: 932
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 01610.01
current_num: 161.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 01610
articlecurrent_num: 161
articleroot_num: 15
text:
The Serjeant at Arms attending this House shall take into his custody any member of the public whom he may see, or who may be reported to him to be, in any part of the House or gallery appropriated to the Members of this House, and also any member of the public who, having been admitted into any other part of the House or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when the public are directed to withdraw, while the House, or any committee of the whole House, is sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 01610.02
current_num: 161.02
root_num: 674
articleid: 01610
articlecurrent_num: 161
articleroot_num: 15
text:
The power conferred upon the Serjeant at Arms by paragraph (1) of this order may, if the chairman so directs, be exercised in respect of members of the public present at sittings of select and standing committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-10-26
subarticleid: 01620.01
current_num: 162.01
root_num: 20
articleid: 01620
articlecurrent_num: 162
articleroot_num: 16
text:
No Member of this House shall presume to bring any member of the public into any part of the House or gallery appropriated to the Members of this House while the House, or a committee of the whole House, is sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2004-12-02
subarticleid: 0083A.13
current_num: 83A.13
root_num: 1304
articleid: 0083A
articlecurrent_num: 83A
articleroot_num: 267
text:
The second exception is where the motion makes further provision for proceedings on consideration and third reading of the bill otherwise than in accordance with a resolution of a standing committee under paragraph (14) of Standing Order No. 83C.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2005-01-26
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1B (Election of Speaker by secret ballot), the House shall meet on Mondays and Tuesdays at half-past two o'clock, on Wednesdays at half-past eleven o'clock and on Thursdays at half-past ten o'clock and will first proceed with private business, motions for unopposed returns and questions: Provided that, when the House sits on a Wednesday which immediately follows a periodic adjournment of more than two days or is the first day of a Session, references to specific times in the Standing Orders of this House shall apply as if that day were a Monday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2005-01-26
subarticleid: 00090.03
current_num: 9.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At ten o'clock on Mondays and Tuesdays, at seven o'clock on Wednesdays and at six o'clock on Thursdays (the 'moment of interruption'), the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall, save as otherwise provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and report progress and ask leave to sit again; and if a motion has been made for the adjournment of the House (unless that motion is included in a motion to be made after the interruption of business under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business)), or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such motion shall lapse.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2005-01-26
subarticleid: 00100.03
current_num: 10.03
root_num: 1415
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
(b) on Wednesdays beginning at half-past nine o'clock, which shall be suspended from half-past eleven o'clock until half-past two o'clock and may then continue for up to a further two and a half hours; except that if the Wednesday immediately follows a periodic adjournment of the House of more than two days, the sitting shall be between half-past nine o'clock and two o'clock; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 2005-01-26
subarticleid: 00100.05
current_num: 10.05
root_num: 1416
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 261
text:
and in calculating the periods of two and a half or three hours no account shall be taken of any period during which the sitting may be suspended owing to a division being called in the House or a committee of the whole House.


