# subarticles

chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 1
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 0
text:
That no Bill relating to Religion, or the alteration of the Laws concerning Religion, be brought into this House, until the Proposition shall have been first considered in a Committee of the whole House, and agreed unto by The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 2
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 1
text:
That no Bill relating to Trade, or the alteration of the Laws concerning Trade, be brought into The House, until the Proposition shall have been first considered in a Committee of the whole House, and agreed unto by The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will receive no Petition for any Sum of Money, relating to Public Service, but what is recommended from The Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
subarticleid: 00030.02
current_num: 3.02
root_num: 4
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will not proceed upon any Petition, Motion, or Bill, for granting any Money, or for releasing or compounding any Sum of Money owing to The Crown, but in a Committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
subarticleid: 00030.03
current_num: 3.03
root_num: 5
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will not receive any Petition for compounding any Sum of Money owing to The Crown, upon any branch of the Revenue, without a Certificate, from the proper Officer or Officers, annexed to the said Petition, stating the Debt, what Prosecutions have been made for the Recovery of such Debt, and setting forth how much the Petitioner and his Security are able to satisfy thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 6
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 3
text:
That the precise duration of every Temporary Law be expressed in the Title of the Bill, and also in a distinct Clause at the end of the Bill, and no where else.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1821-02-22
subarticleid: 00030.04
current_num: 3.04
root_num: 7
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will not proceed upon any Motion for an Address to The Crown, praying that any money may be issued, or that any expense may be incurred, but in a Committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1831-06-22
subarticleid: 00030.05
current_num: 3.05
root_num: 8
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That in any Bill which, having passed the House of Lords, shall be sent down to this House for their concurrence, or in any Bill which, having passed this House, shall be returned by the Lords with Amendments, it shall appear that any Pecuniary Penalty or Forfeiture is thereby imposed, varied or taken away, The Speaker shall, before the Second Reading of such Bill or Amendments, report to The House his Opinion, whether the object thereof be to impose, vary, or take away any Pecuniary Charge or Burthen on the Subject, or whether the same relates only to the punishment or prevention of Offences; and The House shall thereupon determine whether it may be expedient, in such particular case, to insist upon the exercise of their Privilege to originate all such provisions respecting pecuniary Penalties or Forfeitures.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1842-04-14
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 9
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 4
text:
That every Member offering to present a Petition to The House, not being a Petition for a Private Bill, or relating to a Private Bill before The House, do confine himself to a statement of the Parties from whom it comes, of the number of signatures attached to it, and of the material allegations contained in it, and to the reading of the prayer of such Petition.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1842-04-14
subarticleid: 00060.01
current_num: 6.01
root_num: 10
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 5
text:
That every such Petition 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, be brought to the Table by the direction of The Speaker, who 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 at the Table, if required.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1842-04-14
subarticleid: 00070.01
current_num: 7.01
root_num: 11
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 6
text:
That if such Petition relate to any matter or subject which the Member presenting it is desirous of bringing before The House, and if such Member shall state it to be his intention to make a Motion thereupon, such Member may give Notice that he will make a Motion on some subsequent day, That the Petition be printed with the Votes.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1842-04-14
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 12
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 7
text:
That, in the case of such Petition 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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1842-04-14
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 13
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 8
text:
That all other such Petitions, after they shall have been ordered to lie on the Table, be referred to the Committee on Public Petitions, without any Question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1842-04-14
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 14
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 9
text:
That, subject to the above regulations, Petitions against any Resolution or Bill imposing a Tax or Duty for the current service of the year, be henceforth received, and the usage under which The House has refused to entertain such Petitions be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-07-24
subarticleid: 00070.01
current_num: 7.01
root_num: 8
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 13
text:
That with respect to any Bill brought to this House from the House of Lords, or returned by the House of Lords to this House, with Amendments, whereby any pecuniary penalty, forfeiture or fee shall be authorized, imposed, appropriated, regulated, varied, or extinguished, this House will not insist on its ancient and undoubted privileges in the following cases:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-07-24
subarticleid: 00070.02
current_num: 7.02
root_num: 15
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 13
text:
1. When the object of such pecuniary penalty or forfeiture is to secure the execution of the Act, or the punishment or prevention of offences.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-07-24
subarticleid: 00070.03
current_num: 7.03
root_num: 16
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 13
text:
2. Where such fees are imposed in respect of benefit taken or service rendered under the Act, and in order to the execution of the Act, and are not made payable into the Treasury or Exchequer, or in aid of the Public Revenue, and do not form the ground of public accounting by the parties receiving the same, either in respect of deficit or surplus.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-07-24
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 6
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 3
text:
That the precise duration of every Temporary Law be expressed in a distinct Clause at the end of the Bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-08-01
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 18
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 14
text:
That no Member's name be affixed to any seat in the House before the hour of Prayers; and that the Speaker do give directions to the doorkeepers accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-08-01
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 15
text:
That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House do, from time to time, take into his custody any Stranger 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 Stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the House or Gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when Strangers are directed to withdraw, while The House, or any Committee of the whole House, is sitting; and that no person so taken into custody be discharged out of custody without the special order of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1849-08-01
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 20
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 16
text:
That no Member of this House do presume to bring any Stranger 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: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will receive no Petition for any Sum of Money, relating to Public Service, or proceed upon any Motion for granting any Money, but what is recommended from The Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 21
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 17
text:
That if any Motion be made in The House for any Public Aid, or Charge upon the people, the consideration and debate thereof shall not be presently entered upon, but shall be adjourned till such further day as The House shall think fit to appoint, and then it shall be referred to a Committee of the whole House before any Resolution or Vote of The House do pass therein.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00190.01
current_num: 19.01
root_num: 22
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 18
text:
That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House do, from time to time, when the House is going to Prayers, give Notice thereof to all Committees; and that all proceedings of Committees, after such Notice, be declared to be null and void.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00200.01
current_num: 20.01
root_num: 23
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 19
text:
That, to prevent the intercepting or losing of Letters directed to Members of this House, the person appointed to bring Letters from the General Post Office to this House, or some other person to be appointed by the Postmaster-General, do for the future, every day during the Session of Parliament, Sundays excepted, constantly attend, from Ten of the clock in the morning till Seven in the afternoon, at the place appointed for the delivery of the said Letters, and take care during his stay there, to deliver the same to the several Members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other persons bringing notes under the hands of the Members sending for the same.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 24
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 20
text:
That the said Officer, do, upon his going away, lock up such Letters as shall remain undelivered; and that no Letter be delivered but within the hours aforesaid.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00230.01
current_num: 23.01
root_num: 26
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 22
text:
That, when any Letter or Packet directed to this House shall come to Mr. Speaker, he do open the same; and acquaint the House, at their next sitting, with the contents thereof, if proper to be communicated to this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00240.01
current_num: 24.01
root_num: 27
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 23
text:
That, unless The House shall otherwise direct, all Orders of the Day set down in the Order Book for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, shall be disposed of before The House will proceed upon any Motions of which Notices shall have been given.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 28
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 24
text:
That at the time fixed for the commencement of Public Business, on days on which Orders have precedence of Notices of Motions, and after the Notices of Motions have been disposed of on all other days, Mr. Speaker do direct the Clerk at the Table to read the Orders of the Day, without any Question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00260.01
current_num: 26.01
root_num: 29
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 25
text:
That the Orders of the Day be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the Paper; the right being reserved to Her Majesty's Ministers of placing Government Orders at the head of the List, in the rotation in which they are to be taken on the days on which Government Bills have precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00270.01
current_num: 27.01
root_num: 30
articleid: 00270
articlecurrent_num: 27
articleroot_num: 26
text:
That no Notice shall be given beyond the period which shall include the Four Days next following on which Notices are entitled to precedence; due allowance being made for any intervening adjournment of The House, and the period being in that case so far extended as to include Four Notice Days falling during the sitting of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00280.01
current_num: 28.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 27
text:
That The House do meet every Wednesday, at Twelve o'clock at noon, for Private Business, Petitions, Orders of the Day, and Notices of Motions, and do continue to sit until Six o'clock, unless previously adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00290.01
current_num: 29.01
root_num: 32
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 28
text:
That when such business has been disposed of, or at Six o'clock precisely, notwithstanding there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker do adjourn The House, without putting any Question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 33
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 29
text:
That whenever The House shall be in Committee on Wednesday at Six o'clock, the Chairman do immediately report Progress, and Mr. Speaker do resume the Chair, and adjourn The House, without putting any Question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00310.01
current_num: 31.01
root_num: 34
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 30
text:
That the business under discussion, and any business not disposed of at the time of such Adjournment, do stand as Orders of the Day for the next day on which The House shall sit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 35
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 31
text:
That whenever the House shall sit, for despatch of business, at Twelve o'clock on any day, except Wednesday and Saturday, if such business be disposed of not later than Three o'clock, The House will resume its sitting at Five o'clock; and if such business be disposed of after Three o'clock and before Four o'clock, The House will resume its sitting at Six o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00330.01
current_num: 33.01
root_num: 36
articleid: 00330
articlecurrent_num: 33
articleroot_num: 32
text:
That when such business has not been disposed of at Four o'clock, Mr. Speaker (or the Chairman, in case The House shall be in Committee) do leave the Chair, and The House will resume its sitting at Six o'clock, when the Orders of the Day not disposed of at the morning sitting, and any Motion which was under discussion at Four o'clock, shall be set down in the Order Book after the other Orders of the Day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00340.01
current_num: 34.01
root_num: 37
articleid: 00340
articlecurrent_num: 34
articleroot_num: 33
text:
That whenever The House shall be in Committee at Four o'clock, the Chairman do report Progress when The House resumes its sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00350.01
current_num: 35.01
root_num: 38
articleid: 00350
articlecurrent_num: 35
articleroot_num: 34
text:
That all Dropped Orders of the Day be set down in the Order Book after the Orders of the Day for the next day on which the House shall sit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00360.01
current_num: 36.01
root_num: 39
articleid: 00360
articlecurrent_num: 36
articleroot_num: 35
text:
That when any Bill shall be presented by a Member, in pursuance of an Order of this House, or shall be brought from the Lords, the Questions "That this Bill be now read a first time," and "That this Bill be printed," shall be decided without Amendment or Debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00370.01
current_num: 37.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 36
text:
That the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and for any other day on which Orders of the Day shall have precedence of Notices of Motions, of which Notice shall have been given on the preceding Friday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00380.01
current_num: 38.01
root_num: 41
articleid: 00380
articlecurrent_num: 38
articleroot_num: 37
text:
That when a Bill or other matter (except Supply, or Ways and Means) has been partly considered in Committee, and the Chairman has been directed to report Progress, and ask leave to sit again, and The House shall have ordered that the Committee shall sit again on a particular day, The Speaker shall, when the order for the Committee has been read, forthwith leave the Chair, without putting any question, and The House shall thereupon resolve itself into such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 42
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
articleroot_num: 38
text:
That 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, the same shall be received, without debate, and a time appointed for taking the same into consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00400.01
current_num: 40.01
root_num: 43
articleid: 00400
articlecurrent_num: 40
articleroot_num: 39
text:
That no Select Committee shall, without leave of The House, consist of more than Fifteen Members; that such leave shall not be moved for without Notice; and that in the case of Members proposed to be added or substituted after the first appointment of the Committee, the Notice shall include the Names of the Members proposed to be added or substituted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 44
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 40
text:
That every Member intending to move for the appointment of a Select Committee, do endeavour to ascertain previously whether each Member proposed to be named by him, on such Committee, will give his attendance thereupon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00420.01
current_num: 42.01
root_num: 45
articleid: 00420
articlecurrent_num: 42
articleroot_num: 41
text:
That every Member intending to move for the appointment of a Select Committee, shall, One day next before the nomination of such Committee, place on the Notices the Names of the Members intended to be proposed by him, to be Members of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 46
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 42
text:
That lists be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Committee Clerks' Office, and in the Lobby of the House, of all Members serving on each Select Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00440.01
current_num: 44.01
root_num: 47
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 43
text:
That to every Question asked of a Witness under examination, in the Proceedings of any Select Committee, there be prefixed in the Minutes of the Evidence the Name of the Member asking such Question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00450.01
current_num: 45.01
root_num: 48
articleid: 00450
articlecurrent_num: 45
articleroot_num: 44
text:
That the Names of the Members present each day on the sitting of any Select Committee be entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee (as the case may be), and reported to the House on the Report of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 49
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 45
text:
That in the event of any Division taking place in any Select Committee, the Question proposed, the Name of the Proposer, and the respective Votes thereupon of each Member present, be entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or on the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee (as the case may be), and reported to the House on the Report of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1852-06-25
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 50
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 46
text:
That if, at any time during the sitting of a Select Committee of this House, the Quorum of Members fixed by The House shall not be present, the Clerk of the Committee shall call the attention of the Chairman to the fact, who shall thereupon suspend the Proceedings of the Committee until a Quorum be present, or adjourn the Committee to some future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1853-08-05
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 13
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 8
text:
That all other such Petitions, after they shall have been ordered to lie on the Table, be referred to the Committee on Public Petitions, without any Question being put; but if any such Petition relate to any matter or subject, with respect to which the Member presenting it has given Notice of a Motion, and the said Petition has not been ordered to be printed by the Committee, such Member may, after Notice given, move that such Petition be printed with the Votes.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1853-08-05
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 51
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 47
text:
That at a quarter before Six o'clock on Wednesday, the Debate on any business then under discussion shall stand adjourned to the next day on which the House shall sit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1853-08-05
subarticleid: 00310.01
current_num: 31.01
root_num: 33
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 29
text:
That whenever the House shall be in Committee on Wednesday at a quarter before Six o'clock, the Chairman do report Progress, and Mr. Speaker do resume the Chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1853-08-05
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 35
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 31
text:
That whenever the House shall sit, for despatch of business, at Twelve o'clock on any day, except Wednesday and Saturday, or at any later hour, unless The House shall otherwise order, if such business be disposed of not later than Three o'clock, The House will resume its sitting at Five o'clock; and if such business be disposed of after Three o'clock and before Four o'clock, The House will resume its sitting at Six o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1853-08-05
subarticleid: 00330.01
current_num: 33.01
root_num: 36
articleid: 00330
articlecurrent_num: 33
articleroot_num: 32
text:
That when such business has not been disposed of at Four o'clock, unless The House shall otherwise order, Mr. Speaker (or the Chairman, in case The House shall be in Committee) do leave the Chair, and The House will resume its sitting at Six o'clock, when the Orders of the Day not disposed of at the morning sitting, and any Motion which was under discussion at Four o'clock, shall be set down in the Order Book after the other Orders of the Day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 51
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 47
text:
That at a quarter before Six o'clock on Wednesday, the Debate on any business then under discussion shall stand adjourned to the next day on which the House shall sit; after which no opposed business shall be proceeded with.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 35
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 31
text:
That whenever the House shall meet, for despatch of business, before Two o'clock, except Wednesday and Saturday, unless The House shall otherwise order, The House will resume its sitting at Six o'clock; and when business has not been disposed of at Ten minutes before Four o'clock, unless The House shall otherwise order, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the Debate on any business then under discussion, or the Chairman shall report Progress, as the case may be, and no opposed business shall then be proceeded with.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00330.01
current_num: 33.01
root_num: 36
articleid: 00330
articlecurrent_num: 33
articleroot_num: 32
text:
That when such business has not been disposed of at Four o'clock, unless The House shall otherwise order, Mr. Speaker (or the Chairman, in case The House shall be in Committee) do leave the Chair, and The House will resume its sitting at Six o'clock, when the Orders of the Day not disposed of at the morning sitting, and any Motion which was under discussion at Ten minutes to Four o'clock, shall be set down in the Order Book after the other Orders of the Day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00370.01
current_num: 37.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 36
text:
That the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and for any other day on which Orders of the Day shall have precedence of Notices of Motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00400.01
current_num: 40.01
root_num: 52
articleid: 00400
articlecurrent_num: 40
articleroot_num: 48
text:
That it be an Instruction to all Committees of the whole House to which Bills may be committed, that they have power to make such Amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject matter of the Bill; but that if any such Amendments shall not be within the Title of the Bill, they do amend the Title accordingly, and do report the same specially to The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 53
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 49
text:
That the Questions for reading a Bill a First and Second Time in a Committee of the whole House be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00420.01
current_num: 42.01
root_num: 54
articleid: 00420
articlecurrent_num: 42
articleroot_num: 50
text:
That in going through a Bill no Questions shall be put for the filling up words already printed in italics, and commonly called blanks, unless exception be taken thereto; and if no alterations have been made in the words so printed in italics, the Bill shall be reported without Amendments, unless other Amendments have been made thereto.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 55
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 51
text:
That on a Clause being offered in the Committee on the Bill, or on the consideration of Report or Third Reading of a Bill, Mr. Speaker or the Chairman do desire the Member to bring up the same, whereupon it shall be read a First Time without Question put, but no Clause shall be offered on consideration of Report or Third reading without notice.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00440.01
current_num: 44.01
root_num: 56
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 52
text:
That Lords' Amendments to Public Bills shall be appointed to be considered on a future day, unless The House shall order them to be considered forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 58
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 54
text:
That Bills which may be fixed for consideration in Committee on the same day, whether in Progress or otherwise, may be referred together to a Committee of the whole House, which may consider on the same day all the Bills so referred to it, without the Chairman leaving the Chair on each separate Bill; provided that, with respect to any Bill not in Progress, if any Member shall raise an objection to its consideration, such Bill shall be postponed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 59
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 55
text:
That, except when Mr. Speaker or the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House shall otherwise direct, his order for the withdrawal of Strangers during a Division, shall be understood to apply to Strangers occupying seats below the Bar and in the Front Gallery, and shall be enforced by the Serjeant-at-Arms accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 60
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 56
text:
That so soon as the voices have been taken, the clerk shall turn a two-minute sand-glass, to be kept on the table for that purpose, and the doors shall not be closed until after the lapse of two minutes, as indicated by such sand-glass.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00490.01
current_num: 49.01
root_num: 61
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 57
text:
That the doors shall be closed so soon after the lapse of two minutes as the Speaker or the Chairman of the Committee of the whole House shall think proper to direct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1854-07-19
subarticleid: 00550.01
current_num: 55.01
root_num: 48
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 44
text:
That the Names of the Members present each day on the sitting of any Select Committee be entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or on the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee (as the case may be), and reported to the House on the Report of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1855-07-20
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 62
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 58
text:
That whenever the House shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means do perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, 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; provided that if the House shall adjourn for more than twenty-four hours, the Deputy Speaker shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker for twenty-four hours only after such adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1855-07-20
subarticleid: 00540.01
current_num: 54.01
root_num: 46
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 42
text:
That lists be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Committee Office, and in the Lobby of the House, of all Members serving on each Select Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1856-07-21
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 63
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 59
text:
That this House will not receive any Petition, or proceed upon any Motion for a Charge upon the Revenues of India, but what is recommended by the Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1856-07-21
subarticleid: 00190.01
current_num: 19.01
root_num: 22
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 18
text:
That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House do, from time to time, when the House is going to Prayers, give Notice thereof to all Committees; and that all proceedings of Committees, after such Notice, be declared to be null and void, unless such Committees be otherwise empowered to sit after Prayers.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1856-07-21
subarticleid: 00380.01
current_num: 38.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00380
articlecurrent_num: 38
articleroot_num: 36
text:
That the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and may also be appointed for any other day on which Orders of the Day shall have precedence of Notices of Motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1856-07-21
subarticleid: 00450.01
current_num: 45.01
root_num: 55
articleid: 00450
articlecurrent_num: 45
articleroot_num: 51
text:
That on a Clause being offered in the Committee on the Bill, or on the consideration of Report of a Bill, Mr. Speaker or the Chairman do desire the Member to bring up the same, whereupon it shall be read a First Time without Question put, but no Clause shall be offered on consideration of Report without notice.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1856-07-21
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 58
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 54
text:
That Bills which may be fixed for consideration in Committee on the same day, whether in Progress or otherwise, may be referred together to a Committee of the whole House, which may consider on the same day all the Bills so referred to it, without the Chairman leaving the Chair on each separate Bill; provided that, with respect to any Bill not in Progress, if any Member shall object to its consideration in Committee, together with other Bills, the Order of the day for the Committee on such Bill shall be postponed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1856-07-21
subarticleid: 00530.01
current_num: 53.01
root_num: 65
articleid: 00530
articlecurrent_num: 53
articleroot_num: 61
text:
That on Wednesdays and other Morning Sittings of the House, all Committees shall have leave to sit, except while the House is at Prayers, during the sitting, and notwithstanding any adjournment of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1858-04-29
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 66
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 62
text:
Any Member having secured a seat at Prayers shall be entitled to retain the same until the rising of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1859-04-14
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 63
text:
That, on the Meeting of a New Parliament, no Resolution in pursuanc e of the Act 21 & 22 Vict. c. 49, which shall have the effect of admitting a Member professing the Jewish religion to be sworn at the Table, be taken into consideration before Twelve of the clock on the fourth day appointed for taking the Oaths required by Law.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1860-08-02
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 66
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 62
text:
That any Member having secured a seat at Prayers shall be entitled to retain the same until the rising of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1860-08-02
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 27
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 23
text:
That, unless The House shall otherwise direct, all Orders of the Day set down in the Order Book for Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, shall be disposed of before The House will proceed upon any Motions of which Notices shall have been given.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1860-08-15
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 63
text:
That any person professing the Jewish Religion may henceforth, in taking the Oath prescribed in an Act passed in the twenty-second year of Her Majesty to entitle him to sit and vote in this House, omit the words "and I make this declaration upon the true faith of a Christian."


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1861-05-03
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 27
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 23
text:
That, unless The House shall otherwise direct, all Orders of the Day set down in the Order Book for Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, shall be disposed of before The House will proceed upon any Motions of which Notices shall have been given, the right being reserved to Her Majesty's Ministers of placing Government Orders at the head of the list on every Order Day, except Wednesday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1861-05-03
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
articleroot_num: 36
text:
That the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and may also be appointed for any other day on which the House shall meet for despatch of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1861-05-03
subarticleid: 00400.01
current_num: 40.01
root_num: 68
articleid: 00400
articlecurrent_num: 40
articleroot_num: 64
text:
That, while the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means are open, the House, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday, without any Question being put, unless the House shall otherwise resolve.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1861-05-03
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 69
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 65
text:
That, while the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means are open, the first Order of the Day on Friday shall be either Supply or Ways and Means, and that on that Order being read, the Question shall be proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1862-04-03
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 66
text:
That there shall be a Standing Committee, to be designated "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, to consist of Nine Members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every Session, and of whom Five shall be a Quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1866-03-20
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will receive no Petition for any Sum relating to Public Service, or proceed upon any Motion for a Grant or Charge upon the Public Revenue, whether payable out of the Consolidated Fund or out of Monies to be provided by Parliament, unless recommended from The Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1866-03-20
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 21
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 17
text:
That if any Motion be made in The House for any Aid, Grant, or Charge upon the Public Revenue, whether payable out of the Consolidated Fund or out of Monies to be provided by Parliament, or for any Charge upon the People, the consideration and debate thereof shall not be presently entered upon, but shall be adjourned till such further day as The House shall think fit to appoint, and then it shall be referred to a Committee of the whole House before any Resolution or Vote of The House do pass therein.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1866-04-30
subarticleid: 00650.01
current_num: 65.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00650
articlecurrent_num: 65
articleroot_num: 63
text:
That Members may take and subscribe the Oath required by Law, at any time during the Sitting of the House, before the Orders of the Day and Notices of Motions have been entered upon, or after they have been disposed of; but no debate or business shall be interrupted for that purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00200.01
current_num: 20.01
root_num: 22
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 18
text:
That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House do, from time to time, when The House is going to Prayers, give Notice thereof to all Committees; and that all proceedings of Committees, after such Notice, be declared to be null and void, unless such Committees be otherwise empowered to sit after Prayers.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00520.01
current_num: 52.01
root_num: 62
articleid: 00520
articlecurrent_num: 52
articleroot_num: 58
text:
That whenever The House shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means do perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, 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; provided that if The House shall adjourn for more than twenty-four hours, the Deputy Speaker shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker for twenty-four hours only after such adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 49
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 45
text:
That in the event of any Division taking place in any Select Committee, the Question proposed, the Name of the Proposer, and the respective Votes thereupon of each Member present, be entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or on the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee (as the case may be), and reported to The House on the Report of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00650.01
current_num: 65.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00650
articlecurrent_num: 65
articleroot_num: 63
text:
That Members may take and subscribe the Oath required by Law, at any time during the Sitting of The House, before the Orders of the Day and Notices of Motions have been entered upon, or after they have been disposed of; but no debate or business shall be interrupted for that purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 71
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 67
text:
That in all Contracts extending over a period of years, and creating a public Charge, actual or prospective, entered into by the Government for the Coveyance of Mails by Sea, or for the purpose of Telegraphic Communications beyond Sea, there should be inserted the condition that the Contract shall not be binding until it has been approved of by a Resolution of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00680.01
current_num: 68.01
root_num: 72
articleid: 00680
articlecurrent_num: 68
articleroot_num: 68
text:
That every such Contract, when executed, should forthwith, if Parliament be then sitting, or, if Parliament be not then sitting, within Fourteen days after it assembles, be laid upon the Table of the House, accompanied by a Minute of the Lords of the Treasury, setting forth the grounds on which they have proceeded in authorizing it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1869-07-13
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 73
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 69
text:
That, in cases where any such Contract requires to be confirmed by Act of Parliament, the Bill for that purpose should not be introduced and dealt with as a Private Bill, and that Power to the Government to enter into agreements by which obligations at the public charge shall be undertaken should not be given in any Private Act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1870-03-28
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 66
text:
That there shall be a Standing Committee, to be designated "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, to consist of Eleven Members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every Session, and of whom Five shall be a Quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1870-07-28
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 74
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
articleroot_num: 70
text:
That this House will, in future, appoint the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means, at the commencement of every Session, so soon as an Address has been agreed to, in answer to Her Majesty's Speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1872-02-20
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 75
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 71
text:
That any oath or affirmation taken or made by any Witness before The House, or a Committee of the whole House, be administered by the Clerk at the Table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1872-02-20
subarticleid: 00680.01
current_num: 68.01
root_num: 76
articleid: 00680
articlecurrent_num: 68
articleroot_num: 72
text:
That any oath or affirmation taken or made by any Witness before a Select Committee may be administered by the Chairman, or by the Clerk attending such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1875-08-09
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 77
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 73
text:
That every Select Committee having power to send for Persons, Papers, and Records, shall have leave to report their Opinion and Observations, together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before them, to The House, and also to make a Special Report of any matters which they may think fit to bring to the notice of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1879-02-18
subarticleid: 00290.01
current_num: 29.01
root_num: 78
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 74
text:
That, except for a Money Bill, no Order of the Day or Notice of Motion be taken after half-past Twelve of the clock at night, with respect to which Order or Notice of Motion a Notice of Opposition or Amendment shall have been printed on the Notice Paper, or if such Notice of Motion shall only have been given the next previous day of sitting, and objection shall be taken when such Notice is called.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1880-02-28
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
That, whenever any Member shall have been named by the Speaker, or by the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, as disregarding the authority of the Chair, or abusing the Rules of the House by persistently and wilfully obstructing the business of the House, or otherwise, then, if the offence has been committed in the House, the Speaker shall forthwith put the question, on a Motion being made, no amendment, adjournment, or debate, being allowed, "That such Member be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of that day's sitting;" and, if the offence has been committed in a Committee of the whole House, the Chairman shall, on a Motion being made, put the same question in a similar way, and if the Motion is carried shall forthwith suspend the proceedings of the Committee and report the circumstance to the House; and the Speaker shall thereupon put the same question, without amendment, adjournment, or debate, as if the offence had been committed in the House itself. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1880-02-28
subarticleid: 00250.02
current_num: 25.02
root_num: 80
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
If any Member be suspended three times in one Session, under this Order, his suspension on the third occasion shall continute for one week, and, until a Motion has been made, upon which it shall be decided at one sitting, by the House, whether the suspension shall then cease, or for what longer period it shall continue; and, on the occasion of such Motion, the Member may, if he desires it, be heard in his place: 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1880-02-28
subarticleid: 00250.03
current_num: 25.03
root_num: 81
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, That nothing in this Resolution shall be taken to deprive the House of the power of proceeding against any Member according to ancient usages.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1880-07-01
subarticleid: 00700.01
current_num: 70.01
root_num: 82
articleid: 00700
articlecurrent_num: 70
articleroot_num: 76
text:
That every person returned as a Member of this House, who may claim to be a person for the time being by Law permitted to make a solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of taking an Oath, shall henceforth (notwithstanding so much of the Resolution adopted by this House on the 22nd day of June last as relates to Affirmation) be permitted, without question, to make and subscribe a solemn Affirmation in the form prescribed by "The Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866," as altered by "The Promissory Oaths Act, 1868," subject to any liability by statute.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-05-09
subarticleid: 00300.02
current_num: 30.02
root_num: 83
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 74
text:
That Motions for the appointment or nomination of Standing Committees and Proceedings made in accordance with the provisions of any Act of Parliament or Standing Order be excepted from the operation of this Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-20
subarticleid: 00300.02
current_num: 30.02
root_num: 83
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 74
text:
That Motions for the appointment or nomination of Standing Committees and Proceedings made in accordance with the provisions of any Act of Parliament or Standing Order, Motions for leave to bring in Bills, and Bills which have passed through Committee of the whole House, be excepted from the operation of this Order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-20
subarticleid: 00300.03
current_num: 30.03
root_num: 84
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 74
text:
Provided, That every such Notice of Opposition or Amendment be signed in the House by a Member, and dated, and shall lapse at the end of the week following that on which it was given.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-22
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
That, whenever any Member shall have been named by the Speaker, or by the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the Chair, or of abusing the Rules of The House by persistently and wifuly obstructing the business 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, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, "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, on a Motion being made, put the same question in a similar way, and if the Motion is carried shall forthwith suspend the proceedings of the Committee and report the circumstance to The House; and the Speaker shall thereupon put the same question, without amendment, adjournment, or debate, as if the offence had been committed in The House itself. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-22
subarticleid: 00250.02
current_num: 25.02
root_num: 80
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
If any Member be suspended under this Order, his suspension on the first occasion shall continue for one week, on the second occasion for a fortnight, and on the third, or any subsequent occasion, for a month: 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-22
subarticleid: 00250.03
current_num: 25.03
root_num: 81
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, That suspension from the service of The House shall not exempt the Member so suspended from serving on any Committee for the consideration of a Private Bill to which he may have been appointed before his suspension: 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-22
subarticleid: 00250.04
current_num: 25.04
root_num: 86
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, That not more than one Member shall be named at the same time, unless several Members present together, have jointly disregarded the authority of the Chair: 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-22
subarticleid: 00250.05
current_num: 25.05
root_num: 87
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, That nothing in this Resolution shall be taken to deprive The House of the power of proceeding against any Member according to ancient usages.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 77
text:
That no Motion for the Adjournment of The House shall be made until the Questions on the Notice Paper have been disposed of, and no such Motion shall be made before the Orders of the Day, or Notices of Motions have been entered upon, except by leave of The House, unless a Member rising in his place shall propose to move the Adjournment, for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not les than forty Members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the Motion; or unless, if fewer than forty Members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, The House shall, on a Division, upon Question put forthwith, determine whether such Motion shall be made.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 89
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 78
text:
That when a Motion is made for the Adjournment of a Debate or of The House during any Debate, or that the Chairman of a Committee do Report Progress, or do leave the Chair, the Debate thereupon shall be confined to the matter of such Motion; and no Member, having moved or seconded any such Motion, shall be entitled to move, or second, any similar Motion during the same Debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00110.01
current_num: 11.01
root_num: 90
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 79
text:
That, if Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, shall be of opinion that a Motion for the Adjournment of a Debate, or of The House, during any Debate, or that the Chairman do Report Progress, or do leave the Chair, is an abuse of the Rules of the House, he may forthwith put the Question thereupon from the Chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 91
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 80
text:
That Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman of Ways and Means, may call the attention of the House, or of the Committee, to continued irrelevance or tedious repetition on the part of a Member; and may direct the Member to discontinue his Speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00140.01
current_num: 14.01
root_num: 92
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 81
text:
That when it shall appear to Mr. Speaker, or to the Chairman of Ways and Means in a Committee of the whole House, during any Debate, that the subject has been adequately discussed, and that is the evident sense of the House, or of the Committee, that the Question be now put, he may so inform the House or the Committee; and, if a Motion be made "That the Question be now put," Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman, shall forthwith put such Question; and, if the same be decided in the affirmative, the Question under discussion shall be put forthwith: Provided that the Question, "That the Question be now put," shall not be decided in the affirmative, if a Division be taken, unless it shall appear to have been supported by more than two hundred Members, or unless it shall appear to have been opposed by less than forty Members and supported by more than one hundred Members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 93
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 82
text:
That when the Chairman of a Committee has been ordered to make a Report to the House, he shall leave the Chair without Question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 83
text:
That, whenever the Committee of Supply stands as the first Order of the Day on Monday or Thursday, Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, unless on first going into Supply on the Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates respectively, or on any Vote of Credit, an Amendment be moved, or Question raised, relating to the Estimates proposed to be taken in Supply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 95
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 84
text:
That, after The House has entered upon the Orders of the Day or Notices of Motions, when, after the House has been cleared for a Division, upon a Motion for the Adjournment of a Debate, or of the House during any Debate, or that the Chairman of a Committee do report Progress, or do leave the Chair, the decision of Mr. Speaker, or of the Chairman of a Committee, that the Ayes or Noes have it is challenged, Mr. Speaker or the Chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes, as indicated by the sand glass, call upon the Members challenging it to rise in their places, and, if they be less than twenty in a House of forty Members or upwards, he may forthwith declare the determination of The House or of the Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00550.01
current_num: 55.01
root_num: 96
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 85
text:
That, in Committee on a Bill, the Preamble do stand postponed until after the consideration of the Clauses, without Question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1882-11-27
subarticleid: 00600.01
current_num: 60.01
root_num: 97
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 86
text:
That, when the Order of the Day for the Consideration of a Bill, as amended in the Committee of the whole House has been read, The House do proceed to consider the same without Question put, unless the Member in charge thereof shall desire to postpone its consideration, or a Motion shall be made to re-commit the Bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1884-08-09
subarticleid: 00560.01
current_num: 56.01
root_num: 97
articleid: 00560
articlecurrent_num: 56
articleroot_num: 86
text:
That, when the Order of the Day for the Consideration of a Bill, as amended in the Committee of the whole House, has been read, The House do proceed to consider the same without Question put, unless the Member in charge thereof shall desire to postpone its consideration, or a Motion shall be made to re-commit the Bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1887-03-18
subarticleid: 0014A.01
current_num: 14A.01
root_num: 98
articleid: 0014A
articlecurrent_num: 14A
articleroot_num: 87
text:
That, after a Question has been proposed, a Member rising in his place may claim to move, "That the Question be now put," and, unless it shall appear to the Chair that such Motion is an abuse of the Rules of the House, or an infringement of the rights of the minority, the Question "That the Question be now put," shall be put forthwith and decided without Amendment or Debate:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1887-03-18
subarticleid: 0014A.02
current_num: 14A.02
root_num: 99
articleid: 0014A
articlecurrent_num: 14A
articleroot_num: 87
text:
When the Motion "That the Question be now put" has been carried, and the Question consequent thereon has been decided, any further Motion may be made (the assent of the Chair as aforesaid not having been witheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any Question already proposed from the Chair; and also if a Clause be then under consideration, a Motion may be made (the assent of the Chair as aforesaid not having been witheld), That the Question, That certain words of the Clause defined in the Motion stand part of the Clause, or That the Clause stand part of, or be added to the Bill, be now put. Such Motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without Amendment or Debate:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1887-03-18
subarticleid: 0014A.03
current_num: 14A.03
root_num: 100
articleid: 0014A
articlecurrent_num: 14A
articleroot_num: 87
text:
Provided always, that Questions for the Closure of Debate shall not be decided in the affirmative, if a Division be taken, unless it shall appear by the numbers declared from the Chair, that such Motion was supported by more than Two Hundred Members, or was opposed by less than Forty Members, and supported by more than One Hundred Members:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1887-03-18
subarticleid: 0014A.04
current_num: 14A.04
root_num: 101
articleid: 0014A
articlecurrent_num: 14A
articleroot_num: 87
text:
Provided always, that this Rule shall be put in force only when the Speaker or the Chairman of Ways and Means is in the Chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That, unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, at Three of the clock, and shall, unless previously adjourned, sit till One of the clock a.m., when the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put, unless a Bill originating in Committee of Ways and Means, or unless Proceedings made in pursuance of any Act of Parliament or Standing Order, or otherwise exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this Standing Order, be then under consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That at midnight on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, except as aforesaid, and at half-past Five of the clock on Wednesdays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted; and, if the House be in Committee, the Chairman shall leave the Chair, and make his report to the House; and if a Motion has been proposed for the Adjournment of the House, or of the Debate, or in Committee That the Chairman do report Progress, or do leave the Chair, every such dilatory Motion shall lapse without Question put; and the business then under consideration, and any business subsequently appointed, shall be appointed for the next day on which the House shall sit, unless the Speaker ascertains by the preponderance of voices that a Majority of the House desires that such business should be deferred until a later day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 104
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, That on the interruption of business the Closure may be moved; and if moved, or if proceedings under the Closure Rule be then in progress, the Speaker or Chairman shall not leave the Chair, until the Questions consequent thereon and on any further Motion, as provided in the Rule "Closure in Debate," have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.04
current_num: 1.04
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That after the business under consideration at Twelve, and half-past Five respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken; and the Orders of the Day, not disposed of at the close of the sitting, shall stand for the next day on which the House shall sit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That a Motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of Public Business, to be decided without Amendment or Debate, to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business if under discussion at Twelve this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order 'Sittings of the House.' "


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.06
current_num: 1.06
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, That after any business exempted from the operation of this Resolution is disposed of, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after Twelve o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 108
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided also, That the Chairman of Ways and Means do take the Chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House. And that Mr. Speaker do nominate, at the commencement of every Session, a panel of not more than five Members to act as temporary Chairmen of Committees, when requested by the Chairman of Ways and Means.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 109
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 90
text:
That, unless the House shall otherwise order, whenever the House shall meet at Two o'clock, the House will proceed with Private Business, Petitions, Motions for unopposed Returns, and leave of absence to Members, giving Notices of Motions, Questions to Ministers, and such Orders of the Day as shall have been appointed for the Morning Sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 35
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 31
text:
That on such days, if the business be not sooner disposed of, the House will suspend its sitting at Seven o'clock; and at Ten minutes before Seven o'clock, unless the House shall otherwise order, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the Debate on any business then under discussion, or the Chairman shall report Progress, as the case may be; and no opposed business shall then be proceeded with.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00060.01
current_num: 6.01
root_num: 36
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 32
text:
That when such business has not been disposed of at Seven o'clock, unless the House shall otherwise order, Mr. Speaker (or the Chairman, in case the House shall be in Committee) do leave the Chair, and the House will resume its sitting at Nine o'clock, when the Orders of the Day not disposed of at the Morning Sitting, and any Motion which was under discussion at Ten Minutes to Seven o'clock, shall be set down in the Order Book after the other Orders of the Day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00070.01
current_num: 7.01
root_num: 37
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 33
text:
That whenever the House shall be in Committee at Seven o'clock, the Chairman do report Progress when the House resumes its sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 34
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 30
text:
That the House shall, unless previously adjourned, sit until One o'clock a.m., when the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put, unless a Bill or Proceeding exempted from the operation of Standing Order "Sittings of the House" be then under consideration. That the Business under discussion, and any Orders of the Day not disposed of at One o'clock a.m., do stand for the next day on which the House shall sit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 110
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 91
text:
That the stages of Committee and Report on the Address to Her Majesty to convey the thanks of the House for Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, at the opening of the Session, be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 27
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 23
text:
That, unless The House shall otherwise direct, all Orders of the Day set down in the Order Book for Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, shall be disposed of before The House will proceed upon any Motions of which Notices shall have been given, the right being reserved to Her Majesty's Ministers of placing Government business, whether Orders or Motions, at the head of the list on every Order Day, except Wednesday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00110.01
current_num: 11.01
root_num: 69
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 65
text:
That, while the Committees of Supply, and Ways and Means are open, the first Order of the Day on Friday shall be either Supply, or Ways and Means, and that on that Order being read, the Question shall be proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00120.01
current_num: 12.01
root_num: 111
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
articleroot_num: 92
text:
That after Whitsuntide, Public Bills, other than Government Bills, be arranged on the Order Book so as to give priority to the Bills most advanced, and that Lords' Amendments to Public Bills appointed to be considered, be placed first, to be followed by Third Readings, Considerations of Report, Bills in Progress in Committee, Bills appointed for Committee, and Second Readings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 28
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 24
text:
That at the time fixed for the commencement of Public Business, on days on which Orders have precedence of Notices of Motions, and after the Notices of Motions have been disposed of, on all other days, Mr. Speaker do direct the Clerk at the Table to read the Orders of the Day, without any Question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00140.01
current_num: 14.01
root_num: 29
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 25
text:
That the Orders of the Day be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the Paper; the right being reserved to Her Majesty's Ministers of placing Government Orders or Motions at the head of the List, in the rotation in which they are to be taken on the days on which Government Bills have precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 112
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 93
text:
That on days on which Government business has priority, the Government may arrange such Government business, whether Orders of the Day or Notices of Motions, in such order as they may think fit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 113
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 94
text:
That on Tuesdays and Fridays, and, if set down by the Government, on Mondays and Thursdays, 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. If such Motions be opposed, Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who moves and from the Member who opposes any such Motion respectively, may, without further Debate, put the Question thereon, or the Question, That the Debate be now adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 77
text:
That no Motion for the Adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions on the Notice Paper have been disposed of, and no such Motion shall be made before the Orders of the Day, or Notices of Motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the House, unless a Member rising in his place shall propose to move the Adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than Forty Members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the Motion; or unless, if fewer than Forty Members and not less than Ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the House shall, on a Division, upon Question put forthwith, determine whether such Motion shall be made.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 68
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 64
text:
That, while the Committee of Supply and Ways and Means are open, The House, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday, without any Question being put, unless The House shall otherwise resolve.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00200.01
current_num: 20.01
root_num: 114
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 95
text:
That Notices of questions be given by Members in writing to the Clerk at the Table, without reading them viva voce in the House, unless the consent of the Speaker to any particular question has been previously obtained.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 75
text:
That, whenever any Member shall have been named by The Speaker, or by the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the Chair, or of abusing the Rules of The House by persistently and wifuly obstructing the business 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, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, "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, on a Motion being made, put the same Question in a similar way, and if the Motion is carried shall forthwith suspend the proceedings of the Committee and report the circumstance to The House; and the Speaker shall thereupon put the same Question, without amendment, adjournment, or debate, as if the offence had been committed in The House itself. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00210.02
current_num: 21.02
root_num: 80
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 75
text:
If any Member be suspended under this Order, his suspension on the first occasion shall continue for one week, on the second occasion for a fortnight, and on the third, or any subsequent occasion, for a month.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00210.03
current_num: 21.03
root_num: 81
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, That suspension from the service of The House shall not exempt the Member so suspended from serving on any Committee for the consideration of a Private Bill to which he may have been appointed before his suspension.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00210.04
current_num: 21.04
root_num: 86
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, That not more than one Member shall be named at the same time, unless several Members, present together, have jointly disregarded the authority of the Chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00230.01
current_num: 23.01
root_num: 90
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 79
text:
That, if Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, shall be of opinion that a Motion for the Adjournment of a Debate, or of The House, during any Debate, or that the Chairman do Report Progress, or do leave the Chair, 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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00240.01
current_num: 24.01
root_num: 91
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 80
text:
That Mr. 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: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 98
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 87
text:
That, after a Question has been proposed, a Member rising in his place may claim to move, "That the Question be now put," and, unless it shall appear to the Chair that such Motion is an abuse of the Rules of the House, or an infringement of the rights of the minority, the Question "That the Question be now put," shall be put forthwith, and decided without Amendment or Debate:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00250.02
current_num: 25.02
root_num: 99
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 87
text:
When the Motion "That the Question be now put" has been carried, and the Question consequent thereon has been decided, any further Motion may be made (the assent of the Chair, as aforesaid, not having been witheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any Question already proposed from the Chair; and also if a Clause be then under consideration, a Motion may be made (the assent of the Chair as aforesaid not having been witheld), That the Question, That certain words of the Clause defined in the Motion stand part of the Clause, or That the Clause stand part of, or be added to the Bill, be now put. Such Motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without Amendment or Debate:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00260.01
current_num: 26.01
root_num: 100
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 88
text:
That Questions for the Closure of Debate under Standing Order No. 25 shall be decided in the affirmative, if, when a Division be taken, it appears by the Numbers declared from the Chair that not less than One Hundred Members voted in the Majority in support of the Motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00270.01
current_num: 27.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00270
articlecurrent_num: 27
articleroot_num: 96
text:
That Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman do order Members, whose conduct is grossly disorderly, to withdraw immediately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting; and that the Serjeant-at-Arms do act on such Orders as he may receive from the Chair, in pursuance of this Resolution. But if, on any occasion, Mr. Speaker or the Chairman deems that his powers under this Standing Order are inadequate, he may Name such Member or Members in pursuance of the Standing Order "Order in Debate," or he may call upon The House to adjudge upon the conduct of such Member or Members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00270.02
current_num: 27.02
root_num: 116
articleid: 00270
articlecurrent_num: 27
articleroot_num: 96
text:
Provided always, That Members who are ordered to withdraw under this Standing Order, or who are suspended from the service of the House under the Standing Order "Order in Debate," shall forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the House, subject, however, in the case of such suspended Members, to the proviso in that Standing Order regarding their service on Private Bill Committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00280.01
current_num: 28.01
root_num: 60
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 56
text:
That so soon as the Voices have been taken, the Clerk shall turn a two-minute Sand-Glass, to be kept on the Table for that purpose, and the Doors shall not be closed until after the lapse of Two Minutes, as indicated by such Sand-Glass.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00290.01
current_num: 29.01
root_num: 61
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 57
text:
That the Doors shall be closed so soon after the lapse of Two Minutes as the Speaker or the Chairman of the Committee of the whole House shall think proper to direct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 97
text:
That Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman may, after the lapse of Two Minutes as indicated by the Sand-Glass, if in his opinion the Division is frivolously or vexatiously 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. And, in case there is no Division, the Speaker or Chairman shall declare to the House or the Committee the number of the minority who had challenged his decision, and their names shall be thereupon taken down in the House, and printed with the list of Divisions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00310.01
current_num: 31.01
root_num: 39
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 35
text:
That when any Bill shall be presented by a Member, in pursuance of an Order of this House, or shall be brought from The Lords, the Questions "That this Bill be now read a first time," and "That this Bill be printed," shall be decided without Amendment or Debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 41
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 37
text:
That when a Bill or other matter (except Supply or Ways and Means) has been partly considered in Committee, and the Chairman has been directed to report Progress, and ask leave to sit again, and The House shall have ordered that the Committee shall sit again on a particular day, The Speaker shall, when the Order for the Committee has been read, forthwith leave the Chair without putting any question, and The House shall thereupon resolve itself into such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 118
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 98
text:
That upon the Report stage of any Bill no Amendment may be proposed, which could not have been proposed in Committee without an Instruction from the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00440.01
current_num: 44.01
root_num: 8
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
That with respect to any Bill brought to this House from the House of Lords, or returned by the House of Lords to this House, with Amendments, whereby any pecuniary penalty, forfeiture, or fee shall be authorised, imposed, appropriated, regulated, varied, or extinguished, this House will not insist on its ancient and undoubted privileges in the following cases: -


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 119
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 99
text:
That the Resolutions of The House of the 1st December 1882 relating to the Constitution and Proceedings of Standing Committees for the Consideration of Bills relating to Law, and Courts of Justice, and Legal Procedure, and to Trade, Shipping, and Manufactures, be revived, and that Trade shall include Agriculture and Fishing.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
That two Standing Committees be appointed for the consideration of all Bills relating to Law and Courts of Justice and Legal Procedure, and to Trade, Shipping, and Manufactures, which may, by Order of The House, in each case, be committed to them; and the procedure in such Committees shall be the same as in a Select Committee, unless The House shall otherwise order: Provided, That strangers shall be admitted, except when the Committee shall order them to withdraw. Provided also, That the said Committees shall be excluded from the operation of the Standing Order of July 21st, 1856, and the said Committee shall not sit, whilst The House is sitting, without the order of The House: Provided also, That any Notice of Amendment to any Clause in a Bill which may be committed to a Standing Committee, given by any honourable Member in the House, shall stand referred to such Committee: Provided also, That Twenty be the Quorum of such Standing Committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
That each of the said Standing Committees do consist of not less than Sixty, nor more than Eighty Members, to be nominated by the Committee of Selection, who shall have regard to the classes of Bills committed to such Committees, to the composition of The House, and to the qualifications of the Members selected; and shall have power to discharge Members from time to time, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. The Committee of Selection shall also have power to add not more than Fifteen Members to a Standing Committee in respect of any Bill referred to it, to serve on the Committee during the consideration of such Bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00490.01
current_num: 49.01
root_num: 122
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 102
text:
That the Committee of Selection shall nominate a Chairmen's Panel to consist of not less than Four nor more than Six Members, of whom Three shall be a Quorum; and the Chairmen's Panel shall appoint from among themselves the Chairman of each Standing Committee, and may change the Chairman so appointed from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00500.01
current_num: 50.01
root_num: 123
articleid: 00500
articlecurrent_num: 50
articleroot_num: 103
text:
That all Bills which shall have been committed to one of the said Standing Committees shall, when reported to The House, be proceeded with, as if they had been reported from a Committee of the whole House: Provided, That the provisions of the Standing Order "Consideration of a Bill, as amended" shall not apply to a Bill reported to The House by a Standing Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00510.01
current_num: 51.01
root_num: 124
articleid: 00510
articlecurrent_num: 51
articleroot_num: 104
text:
That whenever an Order of the Day is read for the House to resolve itself into Committee (not being a Committee to consider a Message from the Crown, or the Committee of Supply, or of Ways and Means), Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such Committee, unless Notice of an Instruction thereto has been given, when such Instruction shall be first disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00540.01
current_num: 54.01
root_num: 74
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 70
text:
That this House will, in future, appoint the Committees of Supply, and Ways and Means, at the commencement of every Session, so soon as an Address has been agreed to, in answer to Her Majesty's Speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00550.01
current_num: 55.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 36
text:
That the Committees of Supply, and Ways and Means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and may also be appointed for any other day on which the House shall meet for despatch of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00560.01
current_num: 56.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00560
articlecurrent_num: 56
articleroot_num: 83
text:
That whenever the Committee of Supply stands as an Order of the Day on Monday or Thursday, Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, unless on first going into Supply on the Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates respectively, or on any Vote of Credit, an Amendment be moved, or Question raised, relating to the Estimates proposed to be taken in Supply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00570.01
current_num: 57.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00570
articlecurrent_num: 57
articleroot_num: 2
text:
That this House will receive no Petition for any sum relating to Public Service, or proceed upon any Motion for a grant or charge upon the Public Revenue, whether payable out of the Consolidated Fund or out of monies to be provided by Parliament, unless recommended from The Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00620.01
current_num: 62.01
root_num: 21
articleid: 00620
articlecurrent_num: 62
articleroot_num: 17
text:
That if any Motion be made in The House for any aid, grant, or charge upon the Public Revenue, whether payable out of the Consolidated Fund or out of monies to be provided by Parliament, or for any charge upon the People, the consideration and debate thereof shall not be presently entered upon, but shall be adjourned till such further day as The House shall think fit to appoint, and then it shall be referred to a Committee of the whole House before any Resolution or Vote of The House do pass therein.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00650.01
current_num: 65.01
root_num: 73
articleid: 00650
articlecurrent_num: 65
articleroot_num: 69
text:
That, in cases where any such Contract requires to be confirmed by Act of Parliament, the Bill for that purpose should not be introduced and dealt with as a Private Bill, and that power to the Government to enter into agreements by which obligations at the public charge shall be undertaken, should not be given in any Private Act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 65
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 61
text:
That all Committees shall have leave to sit, except while The House is at Prayers, during the sitting, and notwithstanding any adjournment of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 43
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 39
text:
That no Select Committee shall, without leave of The House, consist of more than Fifteen Members; that such leave shall not be moved for without Notice; and that in the case of Members proposed to be added or substituted, after the first appointment of the Committee, the Notice shall include the Names of the Members proposed to be added or substituted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00680.01
current_num: 68.01
root_num: 44
articleid: 00680
articlecurrent_num: 68
articleroot_num: 40
text:
That every Member intending to move for the appointment of a Select Committee do endeavour to ascertain previously whether each Member proposed to be named by him on such Committee will give his attendance thereupon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 45
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 41
text:
That every Member intending to move for the appointment of a Select Committee, shall, One day next before the nomination of such Committee, place on the Notices the Names of the Members intended to be proposed by him to be Members of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00710.01
current_num: 71.01
root_num: 47
articleid: 00710
articlecurrent_num: 71
articleroot_num: 43
text:
That to every Question asked of a Witness under examination, in the Proceedings of any Select Committee, there be prefixed in the Minutes of the Evidence, the Name of the Member asking such Question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00720.01
current_num: 72.01
root_num: 48
articleid: 00720
articlecurrent_num: 72
articleroot_num: 44
text:
That the Names of the Members present each day on the sitting of any Select Committee be entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or on the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee (as the case may be) and reported to the House on the Report of such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00780.01
current_num: 78.01
root_num: 9
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 4
text:
That every Member offering to present a Petition to the House, not being a Petition for a Private Bill, or relating to a Private Bill before The House, do confine himself to a statement of the Parties from whom it comes, of the number of signatures attached to it, and of the material allegations contained in it, and to the reading of the prayer of such Petition.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00790.01
current_num: 79.01
root_num: 10
articleid: 00790
articlecurrent_num: 79
articleroot_num: 5
text:
That every such Petition 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, be brought to the Table by the direction of The Speaker, who 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 at the Table, if required.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00820.01
current_num: 82.01
root_num: 14
articleid: 00820
articlecurrent_num: 82
articleroot_num: 9
text:
That, subject to the above regulations, Petitions against any Resolution or Bill imposing a Tax or Duty for the current service of the year be henceforth received, and the usage under which The House has refused to entertain such Petitions be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00830.01
current_num: 83.01
root_num: 62
articleid: 00830
articlecurrent_num: 83
articleroot_num: 58
text:
That whenever The House shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means do perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, 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; provided that if the House shall adjourn for more than Twenty-four hours, the Deputy Speaker shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker for Twenty-four hours only after such adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00840.01
current_num: 84.01
root_num: 18
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 14
text:
That no Member's name be affixed to any seat in the House before the hour of Prayers; and that the Speaker do give directions to the Doorkeepers accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 82
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 76
text:
That every person returned as a Member of this House, who may claim to be a person for the time being by Law permitted to make a solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of taking an Oath, shall henceforth (notwithstanding so much of the Resolution adopted by this House on the 22nd day of June last as relates to Affirmation) be permitted, without Question, to make and subscribe a solemn Affirmation in the form prescribed by "The Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866," as altered by "The Promissory Oaths Act, 1868," subject to any liability by Statute.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00880.01
current_num: 88.01
root_num: 75
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 71
text:
That any Oath or Affirmation taken or made by any Witness before The House, or a Committee of the whole House, be administered by the Clerk at the Table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00890.01
current_num: 89.01
root_num: 76
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 72
text:
That any Oath or Affirmation taken or made by any Witness before a Select Committee may be administered by the Chairman, or by the Clerk attending such Committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00900.01
current_num: 90.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 15
text:
That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House do, from time to time, take into his custody any Stranger 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 Stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the House or Gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when Strangers are directed to withdraw, while The House, or any Committee of the whole House is sitting; and that no person so taken into custody be discharged out of custody without the special order of The House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00930.01
current_num: 93.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 105
text:
That if at any sitting of the House, or in Committee, any Member shall take notice that Strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the Question, "That Strangers be ordered to withdraw," without permitting any Debate or Amendment: Provided that the Speaker, or the Chairman, may, whenever he thinks fit, order the withdrawal of Strangers from any part of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00940.01
current_num: 94.01
root_num: 23
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 19
text:
That, to prevent the intercepting or losing of Letters directed to Members of this House, the person appointed to bring Letters from the General Post Office to this House, or some other person to be appointed by the Postmaster General, do for the future, every day during the Session of Parliament, Sundays excepted, constantly attend, from Ten of the clock in the morning till Seven in the afternoon, at the place appointed for the delivery of the said Letters, and take care during his stay there, to deliver the same to the several Members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other person bringing notes under the hands of the Members sending for the same.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
subarticleid: 00950.01
current_num: 95.01
root_num: 24
articleid: 00950
articlecurrent_num: 95
articleroot_num: 20
text:
That the said officer do, upon his going away, lock up such Letters as shall remain undelivered; and that no Letter be delivered but within the hours aforesaid.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1891-02-17
subarticleid: 00510.01
current_num: 51.01
root_num: 124
articleid: 00510
articlecurrent_num: 51
articleroot_num: 104
text:
That whenever an Order of the Day is read for the House to resolve itself into Committee (not being a Committee to consider a Message from the Crown, or the Committee of Supply, or of Ways and Means, or the Committee on the East India Revenue Accounts), Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such Committee, unless Notice of an Instruction thereto has been given, when such Instruction shall be first disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1892-03-03
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 126
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 106
text:
That the Sittings of the House at Nine o'clock be held subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 which relate to the Interruption of Business and the Adjournment of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1896-08-14
subarticleid: 00580.01
current_num: 58.01
root_num: 4
articleid: 00580
articlecurrent_num: 58
articleroot_num: 10
text:
That this House will not proceed upon any Petition, Motion, or Bill, for granting any Money, or for releasing or compounding any Sum of Money owing, to The Crown, but in a Committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1896-08-14
subarticleid: 00980.01
current_num: 98.01
root_num: 127
articleid: 00980
articlecurrent_num: 98
articleroot_num: 107
text:
That if during the existence of a Parliament Papers are commanded to be presented to this House by Her Majesty at any time, the delivery of such Papers to the Librarian of the House of Commons shall be deemed to be for all purposes the presentation of them to this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1901-03-04
subarticleid: 00510.01
current_num: 51.01
root_num: 124
articleid: 00510
articlecurrent_num: 51
articleroot_num: 104
text:
That whenever an Order of the Day is read for the House to resolve itself into Committee (not being a Committee to consider a Message from the Crown, or the Committee of Supply, or the Committee on the East India Revenue Accounts), Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such Committee, unless Notice of an Instruction thereto has been given, when such Instruction shall be first disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1901-03-07
subarticleid: 00210.05
current_num: 21.05
root_num: 128
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, That if any Member, or 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 further Question put, be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the Session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1901-04-02
subarticleid: 00500.01
current_num: 50.01
root_num: 123
articleid: 00500
articlecurrent_num: 50
articleroot_num: 103
text:
That all Bills which shall have been committed to one of the said Standing Committees shall, when reported to The House, be proceeded with, as if they had been reported from a Committee of the whole House: Provided only, that all Bills reported from a Standing Committee, whether amended or not, shall be considered on report by the House without question put, unless the Member in charge thereof desire to postpone its consideration or a motion be made to re-commit the Bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-02-11
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 75
text:
That, whenever any Member shall have been named by The Speaker, or by the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the Chair, or of abusing the Rules of The House by persistently and wifuly obstructing the business 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, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, "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 circumstance to The House; and the Speaker shall on a Motion being made thereupon put the same Question, without amendment, adjournment, or debate, as if the offence had been committed in The House itself. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-02-11
subarticleid: 00830.02
current_num: 83.02
root_num: 129
articleid: 00830
articlecurrent_num: 83
articleroot_num: 58
text:
At the commencement of every Parliament, or from time to time, as necessity may arise, the House may appoint a Deputy Chairman, who shall, whenever the House is informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence of the Chairman of Ways and Means, be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the Chairman of Ways and Means, including his powers as Deputy Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-02-17
subarticleid: 00310.02
current_num: 31.02
root_num: 130
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 35
text:
A Member may, if he thinks fit, after notice, present a Bill without an Order of the House for its introduction; and when a Bill is so presented, the Title of the Bill shall be read by the Clerk at the Table, and the Bill shall then be deemed to have been read a first time, and shall be printed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-02-17
subarticleid: 00560.01
current_num: 56.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00560
articlecurrent_num: 56
articleroot_num: 83
text:
That whenever the Committee of Supply stands as an Order of the Day, Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, unless on first going into Supply on the Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates respectively, or on any Vote of Credit, an Amendment be moved, or Question raised, relating to the Estimates proposed to be taken in Supply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-04-08
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
That The House do meet every Friday, at Twelve o'clock at noon, for Private Business, Petitions, Orders of the Day, and Notices of Motions, and do continue to sit until Six o'clock, unless previously adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-04-29
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 77
text:
That no Motion for the Adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business at the afternoon sitting have been disposed of and no such Motion shall be made before the Orders of the Day or Notices of Motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the House, unless a Member rising in his place at an afternoon sitting shall propose to move the Adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty Members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the Motion; or unless, if fewer than forty Members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the House shall, on a division, upon Question put forthwith, determine whether such Motion shall be made. If the Motion is so supported, or the House so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until the evening sitting of the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-04-29
subarticleid: 00200.02
current_num: 20.02
root_num: 131
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 95
text:
On days when there are two sittings of the House, Questions shall be taken at a quarter-past Two of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-04-29
subarticleid: 00200.03
current_num: 20.03
root_num: 132
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 95
text:
No Questions shall be taken after five minutes before Three of the clock, except Questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the Minister to whom they are addressed, and Questions which have not appeared on the Paper, but which are 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: 1902-04-29
subarticleid: 00200.04
current_num: 20.04
root_num: 133
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Any Member who desires an oral answer to his Question may distinguish it by an asterisk, but notice of any such Question must appear at latest on the Notice Paper circulated, on the day before that on which an answer is desired.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-04-29
subarticleid: 00200.05
current_num: 20.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any Member does not distinguish his Question by an asterisk, or if he or any other Member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by five minutes before Three of the clock, the Minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed and circulated with the Votes, unless the Member has signified his desire to postpone the Question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-01
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
That two Standing Committees be appointed for the consideration of all Bills relating to Law and Courts of Justice and Legal Procedure, and to Trade, Shipping, and Manufactures, which may, by Order of The House, in each case, be committed to them; and the procedure in such Committees shall be the same as in a Select Committee, unless The House shall otherwise order: Provided, That strangers shall be admitted, except when the Committee shall order them to withdraw, and the said Committees shall not sit after a quarter past Two of the clock whilst the House is sitting without the Order of the House. Provided also, That any Notice of Amendment to any Clause in a Bill which may be committed to a Standing Committee, given by any honourable Member in the House, shall stand referred to such Committee: Provided also, That Twenty be the Quorum of such Standing Committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That, unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, at Two of the clock for an Afternoon Sitting, and at Nine of the clock for an Evening Sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 135
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At one of the clock at the Evening sitting the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put, unless a Bill originating in Committee of Ways and Means, or Proceedings made in pursuance of any Act of Parliament or Standing Order, or otherwise exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this Standing Order, be then under consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That at half past seven of the clock and at midnight on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, except as aforesaid, and at half-past five of the clock on Fridays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted, and, if the House be in Committee, the Chairman shall leave the Chair and make his Report to the House, and if a Motion has been proposed for the Adjournment of the House or of the Debate, or in Committee, that the Chairman do report Progress, or do leave the Chair, every such dilatory Motion shall lapse without Question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That after the business under consideration at Twelve, and half-past Five respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken; and after the Business under consideration at half-past Seven of the clock has been disposed of no other Business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.06
current_num: 1.06
root_num: 136
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
All business appointed for any Sitting, and not disposed of before the termination of the Sitting, shall stand over until the next Sitting, or until such other Sitting on any day on which the House ordinarily sits as the Member in charge of the business may appoint.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
That a Motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of Public Business, to be decided without Amendment or Debate, to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business if under discussion at Twelve this night, be not interrupted under the Standing Order 'Sittings of the House.';" or to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion on the interruption of business at this Afternoon's Sitting, be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business at this Evening's Sitting."


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.08
current_num: 1.08
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, That after any business exempted from the operation of this Order is disposed of, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after Twelve o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 108
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided also that the Chairman of Ways and Means shall take the Chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House. And Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every Session, a panel of not more than five Members to act as temporary Chairmen of Committees, when requested by the Chairman of Ways and Means.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 113
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 94
text:
That on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and, if set down by the Government, on Mondays and Thursdays, 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. If such Motions be opposed, Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who moves and from the Member who opposes any such Motion respectively, may, without further Debate, put the Question thereon, or the Question, That the Debate be now adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
subarticleid: 00550.01
current_num: 55.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 36
text:
That the Committees of Supply, and Ways and Means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and may also be appointed for any other day on which the House shall meet for despatch of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at two of the clock for an afternoon sitting, and at nine of the clock for an evening sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 135
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At one of the clock at the evening sitting, the speaker shall adjourn the house without question put, unless a bill originating in committee of ways and means, or unless proceedings made in pursuance of any act of parliament or standing order, or otherwise exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this standing order, be then under consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At half-past seven of the clock and at midnight on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, except as aforesaid, and at half-past five of the clock on Fridays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted; and, if the house be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and make his report to the house; and if a motion has been proposed for the adjournment of the house, or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such dilatory motion shall lapse without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.04
current_num: 1.04
root_num: 104
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, that on the interruption of business the closure may be moved; and if moved, or if proceedings under the closure rule be then in progress, the speaker or chairman shall not leave the chair, until the questions consequent thereon and on any further motion, as provided in the rule "closure of debate," have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at twelve and half-past five, respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken; and after the business under consideration at half-past seven of the clock has been disposed of no other business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.06
current_num: 1.06
root_num: 136
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
All business appointed for any sitting, and not disposed of before the termination of the sitting, shall stand over until the next sitting, or until such other sitting on any day on which the house ordinarily sits as the member in charge of the business may appoint.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate, to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion at twelve this night, be not interrupted under the standing order 'sittings of the house,' " or to the following effect: That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion on the interruption of business at this afternoon's sitting, be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business at this evening's sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.08
current_num: 1.08
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, that after any business exempted from the operation of this order is disposed of, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after twelve o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 108
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided also, that the chairman of ways and means do take the chair as deputy speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the house; and that Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, a panel of not more than five members to act as temporary chairmen of committees, when requested by the chairman of ways and means.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
The house shall meet every Friday, at twelve o'clock at noon, for private business, petitions, orders of the day, and notices of motions, and shall continue to sit until six o'clock, unless previously adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 32
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 28
text:
When such business has been disposed of, or at six o'clock precisely, notwithstanding there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the house, without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00040.02
current_num: 4.02
root_num: 139
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(a.) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except the evening sittings on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00040.03
current_num: 4.03
root_num: 140
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(b.) At the evening sittings of Tuesday and Wednesday notices of motion and public bills, other than government bills, shall have precedence of government business;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00040.05
current_num: 4.05
root_num: 142
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(d.) After Whitsuntide, until Michaelmas, government business shall have precedence at all evening sittings, and at all Friday sittings except the sittings on the third and fourth Fridays after Whit Sunday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00040.06
current_num: 4.06
root_num: 143
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(e.) At the evening sittings at which government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00040.07
current_num: 4.07
root_num: 144
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(f.) At all afternoon sittings the house will first proceed with petitions, motions for unopposed returns, and leave of absence to members, giving notices of motions, and unopposed private business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 112
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 93
text:
On days on which government business has priority, the government may arrange such government business, whether orders of the day or notices of motions, in such order as they may think fit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00060.01
current_num: 6.01
root_num: 111
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 92
text:
After Whitsuntide, public bills, other than government bills, shall be arranged on the order book so as to give priority to the bills most advanced, and lords' amendments to public bills appointed to be considered shall be placed first, to be followed by third readings, considerations of report, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00070.01
current_num: 7.01
root_num: 30
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 26
text:
No notice shall be given beyond the period which shall include the four days next following on which notices are entitled to precedence; due allowance being made for any intervening adjournment of the house, and the period being in that case so far extended as to include four notice days falling during the sitting of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 156
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday, or for the evening sittings on Wednesday between Easter and Whitsuntide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00080.02
current_num: 8.02
root_num: 157
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
All private business which is set down for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, and is not disposed of by fifteen minutes after two of the clock shall, without question put, be postponed until such time as the chairman of ways and means may determine.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00080.03
current_num: 8.03
root_num: 158
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Provided that such private business shall always be taken at the beginning of an evening sitting after any motion for the adjournment of the house standing over from an afternoon sitting has been disposed of, and that such postponed business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00080.04
current_num: 8.04
root_num: 159
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
At an evening sitting at which government business has not precedence, no opposed private business other than that then under consideration shall be taken after a quarter-past ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 114
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Notices of questions shall be given by members in writing to the clerk at the table, without reading them viva voce in the house, unless the consent of the speaker to any particular question has been previously obtained.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00090.02
current_num: 9.02
root_num: 131
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
On days when there are two sittings of the house, questions shall be taken at a quarter past two of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00090.03
current_num: 9.03
root_num: 132
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
No questions shall be taken after five minutes before three of the clock, except questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the minister to whom they are addressed, and questions which have not appeared on the paper, but which are 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: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00090.04
current_num: 9.04
root_num: 133
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Any member who desires an oral answer to his question may distinguish it by an asterisk, but notice of any such question must appear at latest on the notice paper circulated on the day before that on which an answer is desired.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00090.05
current_num: 9.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he or any other member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by five minutes before three of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed and circulated with the votes, unless the member has signified his desire to postpone the question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the house shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business at the afternoon sitting have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made before the orders of the day, or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the house, unless a member rising in his place at an afternoon sitting shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the house shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the house so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until the evening sitting of the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00110.01
current_num: 11.01
root_num: 113
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 94
text:
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and, if set down by the government, on Mondays and Thursdays, 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. If such motions be opposed, Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the member who moves and from the member who opposes any such motion respectively, may, without further debate, put the question thereon, or the question, that the debate be now adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00120.01
current_num: 12.01
root_num: 28
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
articleroot_num: 24
text:
At the time fixed for the commencement of public business, on days on which orders have precedence of notices of motions, and after the notices of motions have been disposed of, on all other days, Mr. Speaker shall direct the clerk at the table to read the orders of the day, without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 29
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 25
text:
The orders of the day shall be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the paper; the right being reserved to His Majesty's ministers of placing government orders or motions at the head of the list, in the rotation in which they are to be taken on the days on which government bills have precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00140.01
current_num: 14.01
root_num: 74
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 70
text:
This house will, in future, appoint the committees of supply and ways and means at the commencement of every session, so soon as an address has been agreed to, in answer to His Majesty's speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 145
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
As soon as the committee of supply has been appointed and estimates have been presented, the business of supply shall, until disposed of, be the first order of the day on Thursday, unless the house otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.02
current_num: 15.02
root_num: 146
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Not more than twenty days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted for the consideration of the annual estimates for the army, navy, and civil services, including votes on account. The days allotted shall not include any day on which the question has to be put that the speaker do leave the chair, or any day on which the business of supply does not stand as first order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.03
current_num: 15.03
root_num: 147
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Provided that the days occupied by the consideration of estimates supplementary to those of a previous session or of any vote of credit, or of votes for supplementary or additional estimates presented by the government for war expenditure, or for any new service not included in the ordinary estimates for the year, shall not be included in the computation of the twenty days aforesaid.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.04
current_num: 15.04
root_num: 148
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Provided also that on motion made after notice, to be decided without amendment or debate, additional time, not exceeding three days, may be allotted for the purposes aforesaid, either before or after the 5th of August.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.05
current_num: 15.05
root_num: 149
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day so allotted, no business other than the business of supply shall be taken before midnight, and no business in committee or proceedings on report of supply shall be taken after midnight, whether a general order for the suspension of the twelve o'clock rule is in force or not, unless the house otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.06
current_num: 15.06
root_num: 150
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Of the days so allotted, not more than one day in committee shall be allotted to any vote on account, and not more than one sitting to the report of that vote. At midnight on the close of the day on which the committee on that vote is taken, and at the close of the sitting on which the report of that vote is taken, the chairman of committees or the speaker, as the case may be, shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote or the report.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.07
current_num: 15.07
root_num: 151
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten of the clock on the last day but one of the days so allotted the chairman shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put the question with respect to each class of the civil service estimates that the total amount of the votes outstanding in that class be granted for the services defined in the class, and shall in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of the votes outstanding in the estimates for the navy, the army, and the revenue departments be granted for the services defined in those estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.08
current_num: 15.08
root_num: 152
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten of the clock on the last, not being earlier than the twentieth, of the allotted days, the speaker shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the report of the resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each class of the civil service estimates, the question, that the house doth agree with the committee in all the outstanding resolutions reported in respect of that class, and shall then put a like question with respect to all the resolutions outstanding in the estimates for the navy, the army, the revenue departments, and other outstanding resolutions severally.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.09
current_num: 15.09
root_num: 153
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On the days appointed for concluding the business of supply, the consideration of that business shall not be anticipated by a motion of adjournment, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings for that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.10
current_num: 15.10
root_num: 154
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Any additional estimate for any new matter not included in the original estimates for the year, shall be submitted for consideration in the committee of supply on some day not later than two days before the committee is closed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00150.11
current_num: 15.11
root_num: 155
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single day of two sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 36
text:
The committees of supply and ways and means shall be fixed for Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and may also be appointed for any other day on which the house shall meet for despatch of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 83
text:
Whenever the committee of supply stands as an order of the day, Mr. Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, unless on first going into supply on the army, navy, or civil service estimates respectively, or on any vote of credit, an amendment be moved, or question raised, relating to the estimates proposed to be taken in supply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Whenever any member shall have been named by the speaker, or by the chairman of a committee of the whole house, immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the chair, or of abusing the rules of the house by persistently and wifuly obstructing the business 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, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, "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 circumstance to the house; and the speaker shall on a motion being made thereupon put the same question, without amendment, adjournment, or debate, as if the offence had been committed in the house itself. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00180.03
current_num: 18.03
root_num: 81
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, that suspension from the service of the house shall not exempt the member so suspended from serving on any committee for the consideration of a private bill to which he may have been appointed before his suspension.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00180.04
current_num: 18.04
root_num: 86
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, that not more than one member shall be named at the same time, unless several members, present together, have jointly disregarded the authority of the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00180.05
current_num: 18.05
root_num: 128
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, that if any member, or 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 further question put, be suspended from the service of the house during the remainder of the session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00180.06
current_num: 18.06
root_num: 87
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, that nothing in this resolution shall be taken to deprive the house of the power of proceeding against any member according to ancient usages.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00190.01
current_num: 19.01
root_num: 91
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 80
text:
Mr. 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: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00200.01
current_num: 20.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 96
text:
Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall order 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 resolution. But if, on any occasion, Mr. Speaker or the chairman deems that his powers under this standing order are inadequate, he may name such member or members in pursuance of the standing order "Order in debate," or he may call upon the house to adjudge upon the conduct of such member or members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00200.02
current_num: 20.02
root_num: 116
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 96
text:
Provided always, that members who are ordered to withdraw under this standing order, or who are suspended from the service of the house under the standing order "Order in debate," shall forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the house, subject, however, in the case of such suspended members, to the proviso in that standing order regarding their service on private bill committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 137
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
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 question put, or suspend any sitting for a time to be named by him.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00220.01
current_num: 22.01
root_num: 89
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 78
text:
When a motion is made for the adjournment of a debate, or of the house during any debate, or that the chairman of a committee do report progress, or do leave the chair, the debate thereupon shall be confined to the matter of such motion; and no member, having moved or seconded any such motion, shall be entitled to move, or second, any similar motion during the same debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00230.01
current_num: 23.01
root_num: 90
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 79
text:
If Mr. Speaker, or the chairman of a committee of the whole house, shall be of opinion that a motion for the adjournment of a debate, or of the house, during any debate, or that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, 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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00240.01
current_num: 24.01
root_num: 68
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 64
text:
While the committees of supply and ways and means are open, the house, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday, without any question being put, unless the house shall otherwise resolve.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 161
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 112
text:
At an evening sitting the house shall not be counted before ten o'clock, but if on a division taken on any business at an evening sitting before ten o'clock it appears that forty members are not present, the business shall stand over until the next sitting of the house, and the next business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00260.01
current_num: 26.01
root_num: 98
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
After a question has been proposed a member rising in his place may claim to move, "That the question be now put," and, unless it shall appear to the chair that such motion is an abuse of the rules of the house, or an infringement of the rights of the minority, the question, "That the question be now put," shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00260.02
current_num: 26.02
root_num: 99
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
When the motion "That the question be now put" has been carried, and the question consequent thereon has been decided, any further motion may be made (the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, not having been witheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair; and also if a clause be then under consideration, a motion may be made (the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, not having been witheld), that the question, that certain words of the clause defined in the motion stand part of the clause, or that the clause stand part of, or be added to the bill, be now put. Such motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00260.03
current_num: 26.03
root_num: 101
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
Provided always, that this rule shall be put in force only when the speaker or the chairman of ways and means is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00270.01
current_num: 27.01
root_num: 100
articleid: 00270
articlecurrent_num: 27
articleroot_num: 88
text:
Questions for the closure of debate under standing order "Closure of debate" shall be decided in the affirmative, if, when a division be taken, it appears by the numbers declared from the chair, that not less than one hundred members voted in the majority in support of the motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00280.01
current_num: 28.01
root_num: 60
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 56
text:
So soon as the voices have been taken, the clerk shall turn a two-minute sand-glass, to be kept on the table for that purpose, and the doors shall not be closed until after the lapse of two minutes as indicated by such sand-glass.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00290.01
current_num: 29.01
root_num: 61
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 57
text:
The doors shall be closed so soon after the lapse of two minutes as the speaker or the chairman of the committee of the whole house shall think proper to direct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 97
text:
Mr. Speaker or the chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes as indicated by the sand-glass, if in his opinion the division is frivolously or vexatiously 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. And, in case there is no division, the speaker or chairman shall declare to the house or the committee the number of the minority who had challenged his decision, and their names shall be thereupon taken down in the house, and printed with the list of divisions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00310.01
current_num: 31.01
root_num: 39
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 35
text:
When any bill shall be presented by a member, in pursuance of an order of this house, or shall be brought from the Lords, the questions "That this bill be now read a first time," and "That this bill be printed," shall be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00310.02
current_num: 31.02
root_num: 130
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 35
text:
A member may, if he thinks fit, after notice, present a bill without an order of the house for its introduction; and when a bill is so presented, the title of the bill shall be read by the clerk at the table, and the bill shall then be deemed to have been read a first time, and shall be printed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 41
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 37
text:
When a bill or other matter (except supply or ways and means) has been partly considered in committee, and the chairman has been directed to report progress, and ask leave to sit again, and the house shall have ordered that the committee shall sit again on a particular day, the speaker shall, when the order for the committee has been read, forthwith leave the chair without putting any question, and the house shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00330.01
current_num: 33.01
root_num: 58
articleid: 00330
articlecurrent_num: 33
articleroot_num: 54
text:
Bills which may be fixed for consideration in committee on the same day, whether in progress or otherwise, may be referred together to a committee of the whole house, which may consider on the same day all the bills so referred to it, without the chairman leaving the chair on each separate bill; provided that, with respect to any bill not in progress, if any member shall object to its consideration in committee, together with other bills, the order of the day for the committee on such bill shall be postponed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00340.01
current_num: 34.01
root_num: 52
articleid: 00340
articlecurrent_num: 34
articleroot_num: 48
text:
It shall be an instruction to all committees of the whole house to which bills may be committed, that they have power to make such amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject-matter of the bill; but that if any such amendments shall not be within the title of the bill, they do amend the title accordingly, and do report the same specially to the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00350.01
current_num: 35.01
root_num: 96
articleid: 00350
articlecurrent_num: 35
articleroot_num: 85
text:
In committee on a bill, the preamble shall stand postponed until after the consideration of the clauses, without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00360.01
current_num: 36.01
root_num: 53
articleid: 00360
articlecurrent_num: 36
articleroot_num: 49
text:
The questions for reading a bill a first and second time in a committee of the whole house shall be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00370.01
current_num: 37.01
root_num: 54
articleid: 00370
articlecurrent_num: 37
articleroot_num: 50
text:
In going through a bill no questions shall be put for the filling up words already printed in italics, and commonly called blanks, unless exception be taken thereto; and if no alterations have been made in the words so printed in italics, the bill shall be reported without amendments, unless other amendments have been made thereto.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00380.01
current_num: 38.01
root_num: 55
articleid: 00380
articlecurrent_num: 38
articleroot_num: 51
text:
On a clause being offered in the committee on the bill, or on the consideration of report of a bill, Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall desire the member to bring up the same, whereupon it shall be read a first time without question put, but no clause shall be offered on consideration of report without notice.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 42
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
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, the same shall be received, without debate, and a time appointed for taking the same into consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00400.01
current_num: 40.01
root_num: 97
articleid: 00400
articlecurrent_num: 40
articleroot_num: 86
text:
When the order of the day for the consideration of a bill, as amended in the committee of the whole house, has been read, the house shall proceed to consider the same without question put, unless the member in charge thereof shall desire to postpone its consideration, or a motion shall be made to re-commit the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 118
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 98
text:
Upon the report stage of any bill no amendment may be proposed which could not have been proposed in committee without an instruction from the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 56
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 52
text:
Lords' amendments to public bills shall be appointed to be considered on a future day, unless the house shall order them to be considered forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00440.01
current_num: 44.01
root_num: 8
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
With respect to any bill brought to this house from the House of Lords, or returned by the House of Lords to this house, with amendments, whereby any pecuniary penalty, forfeiture, or fee shall be authorized, imposed, appropriated, regulated, varied, or extinguished, this house will not insist on its ancient and undoubted privileges in the following cases: -


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00440.02
current_num: 44.02
root_num: 15
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
1. When the object of such pecuniary penalty or forfeiture is to secure the execution of the act, or the punishment or prevention of offences.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00440.03
current_num: 44.03
root_num: 16
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
2. Where such fees are imposed in respect of benefit taken or service rendered under the act, and in order to the execution of the act, and are not made payable into the treasury or exchequer, or in aid of the public revenue, and do not form the ground of public accounting by the parties receiving the same, either in respect of deficit or surplus.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00450.01
current_num: 45.01
root_num: 6
articleid: 00450
articlecurrent_num: 45
articleroot_num: 3
text:
The precise duration of every temporary law shall be expressed in a distinct clause at the end of the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 119
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 99
text:
The resolutions of the house of the 1st December 1882 relating to the constitution and proceedings of standing committees for the consideration of bills relating to law, and courts of justice, and legal procedure, and to trade, shipping, and manufactures, shall be revived, and trade shall include agriculture and fishing.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Two standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all bills relating to law and courts of justice and legal procedure, and to trade, shipping, and manufactures, which may by order of the house in each case, be committed to them; and the procedure in such committees shall be the same as in a select committee, unless the house shall otherwise order: provided, that strangers shall be admitted, except when the committee shall order them to withdraw; and the said committees shall not sit, after a quarter past two of the clock, whilst the house is sitting, without the order of the house: provided also, that any notice of amendment to any clause in a bill which may be committed to a standing committee, given by any honourable member in the house, shall stand referred to such committee: provided also, that twenty be the quorum of such standing committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of not less than sixty nor more than eighty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the classes of bills committed to such committees, to the composition of the house, and to the qualifications of the members selected; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not more than fifteen members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00490.01
current_num: 49.01
root_num: 122
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 102
text:
The committee of selection shall nominate a chairmen's panel to consist of not less than four nor more than six members, of whom three shall be a quorum; and the chairmen's panel shall appoint from among themselves the chairman of each standing committee, and may change the chairman so appointed from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00500.01
current_num: 50.01
root_num: 123
articleid: 00500
articlecurrent_num: 50
articleroot_num: 103
text:
All bills which shall have been committed to one of the said standing committees shall, when reported to the house, be proceeded with, as if they had been reported from a committee of the whole house: provided only, that all bills reported from a standing committee, whether amended or not, shall be considered on report by the house without question put, unless the member in charge thereof desire to postpone its consideration or a motion be made to re-commit the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00510.01
current_num: 51.01
root_num: 124
articleid: 00510
articlecurrent_num: 51
articleroot_num: 104
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the house to resolve itself into committee (not being a committee to consider a message from the Crown, or the committee of supply, or the committee on the East India revenue accounts), Mr. Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the house shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee, unless notice of an instruction thereto has been given, when such instruction shall be first disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00520.01
current_num: 52.01
root_num: 93
articleid: 00520
articlecurrent_num: 52
articleroot_num: 82
text:
When the chairman of a committee has been ordered to make a report to the house, he shall leave the chair without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00530.01
current_num: 53.01
root_num: 57
articleid: 00530
articlecurrent_num: 53
articleroot_num: 53
text:
Every report from a committee of the whole house shall be brought up, without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00540.01
current_num: 54.01
root_num: 65
articleid: 00540
articlecurrent_num: 54
articleroot_num: 61
text:
All committees shall have leave to sit, except while the house is at prayers, during the sitting, and notwithstanding any adjournment of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00550.01
current_num: 55.01
root_num: 43
articleid: 00550
articlecurrent_num: 55
articleroot_num: 39
text:
No select committee shall, without leave of the house, consist of more than fifteen members; such leave shall not be moved for without notice; and in the case of members proposed to be added or substituted, after the first appointment of the committee, the notice shall include the names of the members proposed to be added or substituted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00560.01
current_num: 56.01
root_num: 44
articleid: 00560
articlecurrent_num: 56
articleroot_num: 40
text:
Every member intending to move for the appointment of a select committee shall endeavour to ascertain previously whether each member proposed to be named by him on such committee will give his attendance thereupon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00570.01
current_num: 57.01
root_num: 45
articleid: 00570
articlecurrent_num: 57
articleroot_num: 41
text:
Every member intending to move for the appointment of a select committee, shall, one day next before the nomination of such committee, place on the notices the names of the members intended to be proposed by him to be members of such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00580.01
current_num: 58.01
root_num: 46
articleid: 00580
articlecurrent_num: 58
articleroot_num: 42
text:
Lists shall be affixed in some conspicuous place in the committee office and in the lobby of the house of all members serving on each select committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00590.01
current_num: 59.01
root_num: 47
articleid: 00590
articlecurrent_num: 59
articleroot_num: 43
text:
To every question asked of a witness under examination in the proceedings of any select committee there shall be prefixed in the minutes of the evidence the name of the member asking such question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00600.01
current_num: 60.01
root_num: 48
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 44
text:
The names of the members present each day on the sitting of any select committee shall be entered on the minutes of evidence, or on the minutes of the proceedings of the committee (as the case may be), and reported to the house on the report of such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00610.01
current_num: 61.01
root_num: 49
articleid: 00610
articlecurrent_num: 61
articleroot_num: 45
text:
In the event of any division taking place in any select committee, the question proposed, the name of the proposer, and the respective votes thereupon of each member present, shall be entered on the minutes of evidence, or on the minutes of the proceedings of the committee (as the case may be), and reported to the house on the report of such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00620.01
current_num: 62.01
root_num: 50
articleid: 00620
articlecurrent_num: 62
articleroot_num: 46
text:
If, at any time during the sitting of a select committee of this house, the quorum of members fixed by the house shall not be present, the clerk of the committee shall call the attention of the chairman to the fact, who shall thereupon suspend the proceedings of the committee until a quorum be present, or adjourn the committee to some future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 77
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 73
text:
Every select committee having power to send for persons, papers, and records, shall have leave to report their opinion and observations, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them, to the house, and also to make a special report of any matters which they may think fit to bring to the notice of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00640.01
current_num: 64.01
root_num: 22
articleid: 00640
articlecurrent_num: 64
articleroot_num: 18
text:
The serjeant-at-arms attending this house shall, from time to time, when the house is going to prayers, give notice thereof to all committees; and all proceedings of committees, after such notice, are declared to be null and void, unless such committees be otherwise empowered to sit after prayers.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00650.01
current_num: 65.01
root_num: 110
articleid: 00650
articlecurrent_num: 65
articleroot_num: 91
text:
The stages of committee and report on the address to His Majesty to convey the thanks of the house for His Majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of parliament, at the opening of the session, shall be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 2
text:
This house will receive no petition for any sum relating to public service, or proceed upon any motion for a grant or charge upon the public revenue, whether payable out of the consolidated fund or out of money to be provided by parliament, unless recommended from the Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 4
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 10
text:
This house will not proceed upon any petition, motion, or bill, for granting any money, or for releasing or compounding any sum of money owing, to the Crown, but in a committee of the whole house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00680.01
current_num: 68.01
root_num: 5
articleid: 00680
articlecurrent_num: 68
articleroot_num: 11
text:
This house will not receive any petition for compounding any sum of money owing to the Crown, upon any branch of the revenue, without a certificate from the proper officer or officers annexed to the said petition, stating the debt, what prosecutions have been made for the recovery of such debt, and setting forth how much the petitioner and his security are able to satisfy thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 7
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 12
text:
This house will not proceed upon any motion for an address to the Crown, praying that any money may be issued, or that any expense may be incurred, but in a committee of the whole house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00700.01
current_num: 70.01
root_num: 63
articleid: 00700
articlecurrent_num: 70
articleroot_num: 59
text:
This house will not receive any petition, or proceed upon any motion for a charge upon the revenues of India, but what is recommended by the Crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00710.01
current_num: 71.01
root_num: 21
articleid: 00710
articlecurrent_num: 71
articleroot_num: 17
text:
If any motion be made in the house for any aid, grant, or charge upon the public revenue, whether payable out of the consolidated fund or out of money to be provided by parliament, or for any charge upon the people, the consideration and debate thereof shall not be presently entered upon, but shall be adjourned till such further day as the house shall think fit to appoint, and then it shall be referred to a committee of the whole house before any resolution or vote of the house do pass therein.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00720.01
current_num: 72.01
root_num: 71
articleid: 00720
articlecurrent_num: 72
articleroot_num: 67
text:
In all contracts extending over a period of years, and creating a public charge, actual or prospective, entered into by the government for the coveyance of mails by sea, or for the purpose of telegraphic communications beyond sea, there should be inserted the condition that the contract shall not be binding until it has been approved of by a resolution of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00730.01
current_num: 73.01
root_num: 72
articleid: 00730
articlecurrent_num: 73
articleroot_num: 68
text:
Every such contract, when executed, shall forthwith, if parliament be then sitting, or, if parliament be not then sitting, within fourteen days after it assembles, be laid upon the table of the house, accompanied by a minute of the lords of the treasury, setting forth the grounds on which they have proceeded in authorizing it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00740.01
current_num: 74.01
root_num: 73
articleid: 00740
articlecurrent_num: 74
articleroot_num: 69
text:
In cases where any such contract requires to be confirmed by act of parliament, the bill for that purpose shall not be introduced and dealt with as a private bill, and power to the government to enter into agreements by which obligations at the public charge shall be undertaken, shall not be given in any private act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00750.01
current_num: 75.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 00750
articlecurrent_num: 75
articleroot_num: 66
text:
There shall be a standing committee, to be designated "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, to consist of eleven members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, and of whom five shall be a quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00760.01
current_num: 76.01
root_num: 9
articleid: 00760
articlecurrent_num: 76
articleroot_num: 4
text:
Every member offering to present a petition to the house, not being a petition for a private bill, or relating to a private bill before the house, shall confine himself to a statement of the parties from whom it comes, of the number of signatures attached to it, and of the material allegations contained in it, and to the reading of the prayer of such petition.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00770.01
current_num: 77.01
root_num: 10
articleid: 00770
articlecurrent_num: 77
articleroot_num: 5
text:
Every such petition 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 by the direction of the speaker, who 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 at the table, if required.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00780.01
current_num: 78.01
root_num: 12
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 7
text:
In the case of such petition 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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00790.01
current_num: 79.01
root_num: 13
articleid: 00790
articlecurrent_num: 79
articleroot_num: 8
text:
All other such petitions, after they shall have been ordered to lie on the table, shall be referred to the committee on public petitions, without any question being put; but if any such petition relate to any matter or subject, with respect to which the member presenting it has given notice of a motion, and the said petition has not been ordered to be printed by the committee, such member may, after notice given, move that such petition be printed with the votes.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00800.01
current_num: 80.01
root_num: 14
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 9
text:
Subject to the above regulations, petitions against any resolution or bill imposing a tax or duty for the current service of the year shall be henceforth received, and the usage under which the house has refused to entertain such petitions shall be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00810.01
current_num: 81.01
root_num: 62
articleid: 00810
articlecurrent_num: 81
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Whenever the house shall be informed by the clerk at the table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the committee of ways and means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of speaker in relation to all proceedings of this house, as deputy speaker, 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; provided that if the house shall adjourn for more than twenty-four hours, the deputy speaker shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of speaker for twenty-four hours only after such adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00810.02
current_num: 81.02
root_num: 129
articleid: 00810
articlecurrent_num: 81
articleroot_num: 58
text:
At the commencement of every parliament, or from time to time, as necessity may arise, the house may appoint a deputy chairman, who shall, whenever the house is informed by the clerk at the table of the unavoidable absence of the chairman of ways and means, be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the chairman of ways and means, including his powers as deputy speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00820.01
current_num: 82.01
root_num: 18
articleid: 00820
articlecurrent_num: 82
articleroot_num: 14
text:
No member's name shall be affixed to any seat in the house before the hour of prayers; and the speaker shall give directions to the doorkeepers accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00830.01
current_num: 83.01
root_num: 66
articleid: 00830
articlecurrent_num: 83
articleroot_num: 62
text:
Any member having secured a seat at prayers shall be entitled to retain the same until the rising of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00840.01
current_num: 84.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 63
text:
Members may take and subscribe the oath required by law, at any time during the sitting of the house, before the orders of the day and notices of motions have been entered upon, or after they have been disposed of; but no debate or business shall be interrupted for that purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00850.01
current_num: 85.01
root_num: 82
articleid: 00850
articlecurrent_num: 85
articleroot_num: 76
text:
Every person returned as a member of this house, who may claim to be a person for the time being by law permitted to make a solemn affirmation or declaration instead of taking an oath, shall henceforth (notwithstanding so much of the resolution adopted by this house on the 22nd day of June 1880 as relates to affirmation) be permitted, without question, to make and subscribe a solemn affirmation in the form prescribed by the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866, as altered by the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, subject to any liability by statute.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00860.01
current_num: 86.01
root_num: 75
articleid: 00860
articlecurrent_num: 86
articleroot_num: 71
text:
Any oath or affirmation taken or made by any witness before the house, or a committee of the whole house, may be administered by the clerk at the table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 76
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 72
text:
Any oath or affirmation taken or made by any witness before a select committee may be administered by the chairman, or by the clerk attending such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00880.01
current_num: 88.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 15
text:
The serjeant-at-arms attending this house shall, from time to time, take into his custody any stranger 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 stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the house or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw, while the house, or any committee of the whole house, is sitting; and no person so taken into custody shall be discharged out of custody, without the special order of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00890.01
current_num: 89.01
root_num: 20
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 16
text:
No member of this house shall presume to bring any stranger 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: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00900.01
current_num: 90.01
root_num: 59
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 55
text:
Except when Mr. Speaker or the chairman of a committee of the whole house shall otherwise direct, his order for the withdrawal of strangers during a division shall be understood to apply to strangers occupying seats below the bar and in the front gallery, and shall be enforced by the serjeant-at-arms accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00910.01
current_num: 91.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 105
text:
If at any sitting of the house, or in committee, any member shall take notice that strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, "That strangers be ordered to withdraw," without permitting any debate or amendment: provided that the speaker, or the chairman, may, whenever he thinks fit, order the withdrawal of strangers from any part of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00920.01
current_num: 92.01
root_num: 23
articleid: 00920
articlecurrent_num: 92
articleroot_num: 19
text:
To prevent the intercepting or losing of letters directed to members of this house, the person appointed to bring letters from the General Post Office to this house, or some other person to be appointed by the postmaster general, shall for the future, every day during the session of parliament, Sundays excepted, constantly attend, from ten of the clock in the morning till seven in the afternoon, at the place appointed for the delivery of the said letters, and take care during his stay there, to deliver the same to the several members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other persons bringing notes under the hands of the members sending for the same.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00930.01
current_num: 93.01
root_num: 24
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 20
text:
The said officer shall, upon his going away, lock up such letters as shall remain undelivered; and no letter shall be delivered but within the hours aforesaid.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00950.01
current_num: 95.01
root_num: 26
articleid: 00950
articlecurrent_num: 95
articleroot_num: 22
text:
When any letter or packet directed to this house shall come to Mr. Speaker, he shall open the same; and acquaint the house, at their next sitting, with the contents thereof, if proper to be communicated to this house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
subarticleid: 00960.01
current_num: 96.01
root_num: 127
articleid: 00960
articlecurrent_num: 96
articleroot_num: 107
text:
If, during the existence of a parliament, papers are commanded to be presented to this house by His Majesty at any time, the delivery of such papers to the librarian of the House of Commons shall be deemed to be for all purposes the presentation of them to this house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 135
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At half-past eleven of the clock the speaker shall adjourn the house without question put, unless a bill originating in committee of ways and means, or unless proceedings made in pursuance of any act of parliament or standing order, or otherwise exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this standing order, be then under consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At eleven of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, except as aforesaid, and at five of the clock on Fridays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted; and, if the house be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and make his report to the house; and if a motion has been proposed for the adjournment of the house, or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such dilatory motion shall lapse without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at eleven and five, respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate, to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion at eleven this night, be not interrupted under the standing order 'sittings of the house,' " or to the following effect: That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion when the business is postponed, be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.08
current_num: 1.08
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, that after any business exempted from the operation of this order is disposed of, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after eleven o'clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 108
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided also, that the chairman or deputy chairman of ways and means do take the chair as deputy speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the house; and that Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, a panel of not more than five members to act as temporary chairmen of committees, when requested by the chairman of ways and means.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
The house shall meet every Friday, at twelve o'clock at noon, for private business, petitions, orders of the day, and notices of motions, and shall continue to sit until half-past five o'clock, unless previously adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 32
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 28
text:
When such business has been disposed of, or at half-past five o'clock precisely, notwithstanding there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the house, without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00040.02
current_num: 4.02
root_num: 139
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(a.) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except after a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00040.03
current_num: 4.03
root_num: 140
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(b.) After a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday notices of motion and public bills, other than government bills, shall have precedence of government business, and any government business then under consideration shall, without question put, be postponed until the business having precedence of it is disposed of;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00040.05
current_num: 4.05
root_num: 142
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(d.) After Whitsuntide, until Michaelmas, government business shall have precedence at all sittings except the sittings on the third and fourth Fridays after Whit Sunday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00040.06
current_num: 4.06
root_num: 143
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(e.) After a quarter-past eight when government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00040.07
current_num: 4.07
root_num: 144
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(f.) At the sittings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the house will first proceed with petitions, motions for unopposed returns, and leave of absence to members, giving notices of motions, and unopposed private business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 156
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday, or for a quarter-past eight on Wednesday between Easter and Whitsuntide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00080.02
current_num: 8.02
root_num: 157
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
All private business which is set down for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, and is not disposed of by three of the clock shall, without question put, be postponed until such time as the chairman of ways and means may determine.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00080.03
current_num: 8.03
root_num: 158
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Provided that such private business shall always be taken at a quarter-past eight on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the house standing over has been disposed of, and that such postponed business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00080.04
current_num: 8.04
root_num: 159
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No opposed private business other than that then under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00090.02
current_num: 9.02
root_num: 131
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Questions shall be taken on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, after private business has been disposed of, and not later than three of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00090.03
current_num: 9.03
root_num: 132
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
No questions shall be taken after a quarter before four of the clock, except questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the minister to whom they are addressed, and questions which have not appeared on the paper, but which are 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: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00090.05
current_num: 9.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he or any other member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by a quarter before four of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed and circulated with the votes, unless the member has signified his desire to postpone the question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the house shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made before the orders of the day, or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the house, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the house shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the house so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until a quarter-past eight on the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00150.05
current_num: 15.05
root_num: 149
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day so allotted, no business other than the business of supply shall be taken before eleven, and no business in committee or proceedings on report of supply shall be taken after eleven, whether a general order exempting business from interruption under the standing order (sittings of the house) is in force or not, unless the house otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00150.06
current_num: 15.06
root_num: 150
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Of the days so allotted, not more than one day in committee shall be allotted to any vote on account, and not more than one sitting to the report of that vote. At eleven on the close of the day on which the committee on that vote is taken, and at the close of the sitting on which the report of that vote is taken, the chairman of committees or the speaker, as the case may be, shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote or the report.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00150.11
current_num: 15.11
root_num: 155
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 161
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 112
text:
The house shall not be counted between a quarter-past eight and a quarter past nine o'clock, but if on a division taken on any business between a quarter-past eight and a quarter-past nine o'clock it appears that forty members are not present, the business shall stand over until the next sitting of the house, and the next business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00510.01
current_num: 51.01
root_num: 124
articleid: 00510
articlecurrent_num: 51
articleroot_num: 104
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the house to resolve itself into committee (not being a committee to consider a message from the crown, or the committee of supply, or the committee on the East India revenue accounts), Mr. Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the house shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee, unless notice of an instruction thereto has been given, when such instruction shall be first disposed of.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 2
text:
This house will receive no petition for any sum relating to public service, or proceed upon any motion for a grant or charge upon the public revenue, whether payable out of the consolidated fund or out of money to be provided by parliament, unless recommended from the crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 4
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 10
text:
This house will not proceed upon any petition, motion, or bill, for granting any money, or for releasing or compounding any sum of money owing, to the crown, but in a committee of the whole house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00680.01
current_num: 68.01
root_num: 5
articleid: 00680
articlecurrent_num: 68
articleroot_num: 11
text:
This house will not receive any petition for compounding any sum of money owing to the crown, upon any branch of the revenue, without a certificate from the proper officer or officers annexed to the said petition, stating the debt, what prosecutions have been made for the recovery of such debt, and setting forth how much the petitioner and his security are able to satisfy thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 7
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 12
text:
This house will not proceed upon any motion for an address to the crown, praying that any money may be issued, or that any expense may be incurred, but in a committee of the whole house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00700.01
current_num: 70.01
root_num: 63
articleid: 00700
articlecurrent_num: 70
articleroot_num: 59
text:
This house will not receive any petition, or proceed upon any motion for a charge upon the revenues of India, but what is recommended by the crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
subarticleid: 00920.01
current_num: 92.01
root_num: 23
articleid: 00920
articlecurrent_num: 92
articleroot_num: 19
text:
To prevent the intercepting or losing of letters directed to members of this house, the person appointed to bring letters from the general post office to this house, or some other person to be appointed by the postmaster general, shall for the future, every day during the session of parliament, Sundays excepted, constantly attend, from ten of the clock in the morning till seven in the afternoon, at the place appointed for the delivery of the said letters, and take care during his stay there, to deliver the same to the several members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other persons bringing notes under the hands of the members sending for the same.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-04-09
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Two standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all bills relating to law and courts of justice and legal procedure, and to trade, shipping, and manufactures, which may by order of the house in each case, be committed to them; and the procedure in such committees shall be the same as in a select committee, unless the house shall otherwise order: provided, that strangers shall be admitted, except when the committee shall order them to withdraw; and the said committees shall not sit, after three of the clock, whilst the house is sitting, without the order of the house: provided also, that any notice of amendment to any clause in a bill which may be committed to a standing committee, given by any honourable member in the house, shall stand referred to such committee: provided also, that twenty be the quorum of such standing committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-12-12
subarticleid: 00280.01
current_num: 28.01
root_num: 162
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 113
text:
If the opinion of the speaker or 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: 1906-12-12
subarticleid: 00280.02
current_num: 28.02
root_num: 163
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 113
text:
After the lapse of two minutes from this direction he shall put the question again, and, if his opinion is again challenged, he shall nominate tellers.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1906-12-12
subarticleid: 00280.03
current_num: 28.03
root_num: 164
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 113
text:
After the lapse of six minutes from this direction he shall direct that the doors giving access to the division lobbies be locked.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 167
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 115
text:
When a bill has been read a second time it shall stand committed to one of the standing committees, unless the house, on motion to be decided without amendment or debate, otherwise order; and such a motion shall not require notice, must be made immediately after the bill is read a second time, may be made by any member, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. But this order shall not apply to-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00460.04
current_num: 46.04
root_num: 170
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 115
text:
Provided that the house may, on motion made by the member in charge of a bill, commit the 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, and that 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 the member who opposes the motion, shall without further debate put the question thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00460.05
current_num: 46.05
root_num: 171
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 115
text:
Where a bill has been committed to a standing committee, or has been so committed in respect of any provision, then at the report stage of the bill or provision, 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 in respect of that amendment or clause.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Four standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all bills committed to them; and the procedure in such committees shall be the same as in a select committee, unless the house shall otherwise order: provided that strangers shall be admitted, except when the committee shall order them to withdraw; and the said committees shall not sit whilst the house is sitting, except in pursuance of a resolution of the committee, moved by the member in charge of the bill before the committee, and decided without amendment or debate, and shall not sit after four p.m. without the order of the house: provided also, that any notice of amendment to any clause in a bill which may be committed to a standing committee, given by any honourable member in the house, shall stand referred to such committee: provided also, that twenty be the quorum of such standing committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00470.02
current_num: 47.02
root_num: 172
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
One of the standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee, and shall consist of all the members representing Scottish constituencies, together with not more than fifteen other members to be nominated in respect of any bill by the committee of selection, who shall have regard in such nomination to the approximation of the balance of parties in the committee to that in the whole house, and shall have power from time to time to discharge, for non-attendance or at their own request, the members so nominated by them, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00470.03
current_num: 47.03
root_num: 173
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00470.05
current_num: 47.05
root_num: 175
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Standing order 19 (as to irrelevance and repetition) and standing orders 26 and 27 (as to closure) shall apply to standing committees, with the substitution in standing order 26 of the chairman of the committee for the chairman of ways and means, and, in standing order 27 of 20 for 100 as the number necessary to render the majority effective for the closure, and the chairman of a standing committee shall have the like powers as the chairman of a committee of the whole house has under standing order 23 (as to dilatory motions).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of not less than sixty nor more than eighty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the classes of bills committed to such committees, to the composition of the house, and to the qualifications of the members selected; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time for non-attendance or at their own request, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. Provided that, for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, the committee shall be so constituted as to comprise all members sitting for constituencies in Wales and Monmouthshire. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not more than fifteen members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill. Provided that this Order shall not apply to the standing committee on Scottish bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
subarticleid: 00490.01
current_num: 49.01
root_num: 122
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 102
text:
The committee of selection shall nominate a chairmen's panel to consist of not less than four nor more than eight members, of whom three shall be a quorum; and the chairmen's panel shall appoint from among themselves the chairman of each standing committee, and may change the chairman so appointed from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.04
current_num: 1.04
root_num: 104
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, that on the interruption of business the closure may be moved; and if moved, or if proceedings under the closure rule be then in progress, the speaker or chairman shall not leave the chair until the questions consequent thereon and on any further motion, as provided in the rule "closure of debate," have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 108
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided also that the chairman or deputy-chairman of ways and means do take the chair as deputy-speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the house; and that Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, a panel of not more than five members to act as temporary chairmen of committees, when requested by the chairman of ways and means.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.02
current_num: 4.02
root_num: 139
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(a) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except after a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.03
current_num: 4.03
root_num: 140
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(b) After a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday notices of motion and public bills, other than government bills, shall have precedence of government business, and any government business then under consideration shall, without question put, be postponed until the business having precedence of it is disposed of;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.05
current_num: 4.05
root_num: 142
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(d) After Whitsuntide, until Michaelmas, government business shall have precedence at all sittings, except the sittings on the third and fourth Fridays after Whit Sunday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.06
current_num: 4.06
root_num: 143
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(e) After a quarter-past eight, when government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.07
current_num: 4.07
root_num: 144
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(f) At the sittings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the house will first proceed with petitions, motions for unopposed returns, and leave of absence to members, giving notices of motions, and unopposed private business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the house shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the house, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the house shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the house so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until a quarter-past eight on the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00150.10
current_num: 15.10
root_num: 154
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Any additional estimate for any new matter not included in the original estimates for the year shall be submitted for consideration in the committee of supply on some day not later than two days before the committee is closed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00260.03
current_num: 26.03
root_num: 176
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
A motion may be made (the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, not having been withheld) that, with respect to certain words in a motion, clause, or schedule under debate defined in the motion, the chair be empowered to select the amendments to be proposed. Such a motion shall be put forthwith and decided without amendment or debate. If the motion is carried the chair shall then and thereafter exercise the power of selecting the amendments to be proposed on the words so defined. The chair may, if the chair thinks fit, ask any member who has given notice of an amendment to give such explanation of the object of the amendment as may enable the chair to form a judgement upon it. Provided that the power of selection shall not be exercised by the chairman of a standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00260.04
current_num: 26.04
root_num: 101
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
Provided always, that this rule shall be put in force only when the speaker or the chairman of ways and means or deputy chairman is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00270.01
current_num: 27.01
root_num: 100
articleid: 00270
articlecurrent_num: 27
articleroot_num: 88
text:
Questions for the closure of debate or selection of amendments under standing order "Closure of debate" shall be decided in the affirmative, if, when a division be taken, it appears by the numbers declared from the chair, that not less than one hundred members voted in the majority in support of the motion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 97
text:
Mr. Speaker or the chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes as indicated by the sand-glass, if in his opinion the division is frivolously or vexatiously 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. And, in case there is no division, the speaker or chairman shall declare to the house or the committee the number of the minority who had challenged his decision, and their names shall be thereupon taken down in the house, and printed with the list of divisions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00460.05
current_num: 46.05
root_num: 171
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 115
text:
Where a bill has been committed to a standing committee, or has been so committed in respect of any provision, then, at the report stage of the bill or provision, 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 in respect of that amendment or clause.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Four standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all bills committed to them; and the procedure in such committees shall be the same as in a select committee, unless the house shall otherwise order: provided that strangers shall be admitted, except when the committee shall order them to withdraw; and the said committees shall not sit, whilst the house is sitting, except in pursuance of a resolution of the committee, moved by the member in charge of the bill before the committee, and decided without amendment or debate, and shall not sit after four p.m., without the order of the house: provided also, that any notice of amendment to any clause in a bill which may be committed to a standing committee, given by any honourable member in the house, shall stand referred to such committee: provided also, that twenty be the quorum of such standing committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of not less than sixty nor more than eighty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the classes of bills committed to such committees, to the composition of the house, and to the qualifications of the members selected; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time, for non-attendance or at their own request, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. Provided that, for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, the committee shall be so constituted as to comprise all members sitting for constituencies in Wales and Monmouthshire. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not more than fifteen members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill. Provided that this order shall not apply to the standing committee on Scottish bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00500.01
current_num: 50.01
root_num: 123
articleid: 00500
articlecurrent_num: 50
articleroot_num: 103
text:
All bills which shall have been committed to one of the said standing committees shall, when reported to the house, be proceeded with as if they had been reported from a committee of the whole house: Provided only, that all bills reported from a standing committee, whether amended or not, shall be considered on report by the house without question put, unless the member in charge thereof desire to postpone its consideration, or a motion be made to re-commit the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00530.01
current_num: 53.01
root_num: 57
articleid: 00530
articlecurrent_num: 53
articleroot_num: 53
text:
Every report from a committee of the whole house shall be brought up without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00570.01
current_num: 57.01
root_num: 45
articleid: 00570
articlecurrent_num: 57
articleroot_num: 41
text:
Every member intending to move for the appointment of a select committee shall, one day next before the nomination of such committee, place on the notices the names of the members intended to be proposed by him to be members of such committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00620.01
current_num: 62.01
root_num: 50
articleid: 00620
articlecurrent_num: 62
articleroot_num: 46
text:
If, at any time during the sitting of a select committee of this house the quorum of members fixed by the house shall not be present, the clerk of the committee shall call the attention of the chairman to the fact, who shall thereupon suspend the proceedings of the committee until a quorum be present, or adjourn the committee to some future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00740.01
current_num: 74.01
root_num: 73
articleid: 00740
articlecurrent_num: 74
articleroot_num: 69
text:
In cases where any such contract requires to be confirmed by act of parliament, the bill for that purpose shall not be introduced and dealt with as a private bill, and power to the government to enter into agreements by which obligations at the public charge shall be undertaken shall not be given in any private act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00790.01
current_num: 79.01
root_num: 13
articleid: 00790
articlecurrent_num: 79
articleroot_num: 8
text:
All other such petitions, after they shall have been ordered to lie on the table, shall be referred to the committee on public petitions, without any question being put; but if any such petition relate to any matter or subject with respect to which the member presenting it has given notice of a motion, and the said petition has not been ordered to be printed by the committee, such member may, after notice given, move that such petition be printed with the votes.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00810.01
current_num: 81.01
root_num: 62
articleid: 00810
articlecurrent_num: 81
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Whenever the house shall be informed by the clerk at the table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the committee of ways and means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of speaker in relation to all proceedings of this house, as deputy speaker, 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: provided that if the house shall adjourn for more than twenty-four hours the deputy speaker shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of speaker for twenty-four hours only after such adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00810.02
current_num: 81.02
root_num: 129
articleid: 00810
articlecurrent_num: 81
articleroot_num: 58
text:
At the commencement of every parliament, or from time to time, as necessity may arise, the house may appoint a deputy chairman, who shall, whenever the chairman of ways and means is absent from the chair, be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the chairman of ways and means, inluding his powers as deputy speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00840.01
current_num: 84.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 63
text:
Members may take and subscribe the oath required by law at any time during the sitting of the house, before the orders of the day and notices of motions have been entered upon, or after they have been disposed of; but no debate or business shall be interrupted for that purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00880.01
current_num: 88.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 15
text:
The serjeant-at-arms attending this house shall, from time to time, take into his custody any stranger 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 stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the house or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw, while the house, or any committee of the whole house, is sitting; and no person so taken into custody shall be discharged out of custody without the special order of the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00890.01
current_num: 89.01
root_num: 20
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 16
text:
No member of this house shall presume to bring any stranger 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: 1909-07-28
subarticleid: 00910.01
current_num: 91.01
root_num: 23
articleid: 00910
articlecurrent_num: 91
articleroot_num: 19
text:
To prevent the intercepting or losing of letters directed to members of this house, the person appointed to bring letters from the General Post Office to this house, or some other person to be appointed by the postmaster general, shall for the future, every day during the session of parliament, Sundays excepted, constantly attend, from ten of the clock in the morning till seven in the afternoon, at the place appointed for the delivery of the said letters, and take care, during his stay there, to deliver the same to the several members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other persons bringing notes under the hands of the members sending for the same.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1914-05-05
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 32
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 28
text:
When such business has been disposed of, or at half-past five o'clock precisely, notwithstanding there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the house without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1914-05-05
subarticleid: 0010A.01
current_num: 10A.01
root_num: 177
articleid: 0010A
articlecurrent_num: 10A
articleroot_num: 116
text:
In determining whether a discussion is out of order on the ground of anticipation, regard shall be had by Mr. Speaker to the probability of the matter anticipated being brought before the House within a reasonable time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1915-09-28
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 114
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Notices of questions shall be given by members in writing to the clerk at the table without reading them viva voce in the house, unless the consent of the speaker to any particular question has been previously obtained.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1915-09-28
subarticleid: 00090.05
current_num: 9.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he or any other member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by a quarter before four of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates, unless the member has signified his desire to postpone the question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1918-01-28
subarticleid: 00900.01
current_num: 90.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 105
text:
If at any sitting of the house, or in committee, any member shall take notice that strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, "That strangers be ordered to withdraw," without permitting any debate or amendment: provided that the speaker, or the chairman, may, whenever he thinks fit, order the withdrawal of strangers from any part of the house. Provided that any order made under this Standing Order shall not apply to members of the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1918-02-13
subarticleid: 00150.02
current_num: 15.02
root_num: 146
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Not more than twenty days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted for the consideration of the annual estimates for the army, navy, air force, and civil services, including votes on account. The days allotted shall not include any day on which the question has to be put that the speaker do leave the chair, or any day on which the business of supply does not stand as first order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1918-02-13
subarticleid: 00150.07
current_num: 15.07
root_num: 151
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten of the clock on the last day but one of the days so allotted the chairman shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put the question with respect to each class of the civil service estimates that the total amount of the votes outstanding in that class be granted for the services defined in the class, and shall in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of the votes outstanding in the estimates for the navy, the army, the air force, and the revenue departments be granted for the services defined in those estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1918-02-13
subarticleid: 00150.08
current_num: 15.08
root_num: 152
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten of the clock on the last, not being earlier than the twentieth, of the allotted days, the speaker shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the report of the resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each class of the civil service estimates, the question, that the house doth agree with the committee in all the outstanding resolutions reported in respect of that class, and shall then put a like question with respect to all the resolutions outstanding in the estimates for the navy, the army, the air force, the revenue departments, and other outstanding resolutions severally.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1918-02-13
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 83
text:
Whenever the committee of supply stands as an order of the day, Mr. Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, unless on first going into supply on the army, navy, air force, or civil service estimates respectively, or on any vote of credit, an amendment be moved, or question raised, relating to the estimates proposed to be taken in supply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion at eleven this night, be not interrupted under the standing order 'sittings of the house,' " or to the following effect: That the proceedings on any specified business, if under discussion when the business is postponed, be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 97
text:
Mr. 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: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 0040A.01
current_num: 40A.01
root_num: 178
articleid: 0040A
articlecurrent_num: 40A
articleroot_num: 117
text:
If a motion to re-commit a bill be opposed, Mr. Speaker shall permit a brief explanatory statement of the reasons for such re-committal from the member who moves and from a member who opposes any such motion respectively, and shall without further debate put the question thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Six standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of bills or other business referred to a standing committee, and the procedure in those committees shall be the same as in a select committee unless the house otherwise order. Standing committees may sit during the sitting, and notwithstanding any adjournment of the house. On a division being called in the house, the chairman of a standing committee shall suspend the proceedings in the committee for such time as will, in his opinion, enable members to vote in the division. Any notice of amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the standing committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be twenty. Strangers shall be admitted to the standing committee except when the committee shall order them to withdraw.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00470.02
current_num: 47.02
root_num: 172
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
One of the standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee, and shall consist of all the members representing Scottish constituencies, together with not less than ten nor more than fifteen other members to be nominated in respect of any bill by the committee of selection, who shall have regard in such nomination to the approximation of the balance of parties in the committee to that in the whole house, and shall have power from time to time to discharge, for non-attendance or at their own request, the members so nominated by them, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00470.05
current_num: 47.05
root_num: 175
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Standing order No. 19 (as to irrelevance and repetition) and standing orders Nos. 26 and 27 (as to closure) shall apply to standing committees, with the substitution in standing order No. 26 of the chairman of the committee for the chairman of ways and means, and, in standing order No. 27 of 20 for 100 as the number necessary to render the majority effective for the closure, and the chairman of a standing committee shall have the like powers as the chairman of a committee of the whole house has under standing order No. 23 (as to dilatory motions).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of not less than forty nor more than sixty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the classes of bills committed to such committees, to the composition of the house, and to the qualifications of the members selected; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time, for non-attendance or at their own request, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. Provided that, for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, the committee shall be so constituted as to comprise all members sitting for constituencies in Wales and Monmouthshire. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not less than ten nor more than fifteen members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill. Provided that this order shall not apply to the standing committee on Scottish bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
subarticleid: 00490.01
current_num: 49.01
root_num: 122
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 102
text:
The committee of selection shall nominate a chairmen's panel to consist of not less than eight nor more than twelve members, of whom three shall be a quorum; and the chairmen's panel shall appoint from among themselves the chairman of each standing committee, and may change the chairman so appointed from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of the standing order ' sittings of the house,' " and, if such a motion be agreed to, the business so specified shall not be interrupted if it is under discussion at eleven o'clock that night, may be entered upon at any hour although opposed; and, if under discussion when the business is postponed, may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 0007A.01
current_num: 7A.01
root_num: 179
articleid: 0007A
articlecurrent_num: 7A
articleroot_num: 118
text:
The proceedings on the reports of the committee of ways and means and committees authorising the expenditure of public money, except the committee of supply, may be entered upon after eleven of the clock though opposed, and shall not be interrupted under the provisions of the standing order " sittings of the house."


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 00260.02
current_num: 26.02
root_num: 99
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
When the motion "That the question be now put" has been carried, and the question consequent thereon has been decided, any further motion may be made (the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, not having been witheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair; and also if a clause be then under consideration, a motion may be made (the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, not having been witheld), that the question, that certain words of the clause defined in the motion stand part of the clause, or that the clause stand part of, or be added to, the bill, be now put. Such motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 00260.03
current_num: 26.03
root_num: 101
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
Provided always that this rule shall be put in force only when the speaker or the chairman of ways and means or deputy chairman is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 0027A.01
current_num: 27A.01
root_num: 180
articleid: 0027A
articlecurrent_num: 27A
articleroot_num: 119
text:
In respect of any motion or any bill under consideration either in committee of the whole house or on report, Mr. Speaker, or in committee the chairman of ways and means, and the deputy chairman, shall have power to select the new clauses or amendments to be proposed, and may, if he thinks fit, call upon any member who has given notice of an amendment to give such explanation of the object of the amendment as may enable him to form a judgement upon it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 0031A.01
current_num: 31A.01
root_num: 181
articleid: 0031A
articlecurrent_num: 31A
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" or any words proposed to be left out stand part of the question, Mr. 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: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 0049A.01
current_num: 49A.01
root_num: 182
articleid: 0049A
articlecurrent_num: 49A
articleroot_num: 121
text:
In order to facilitate the business of standing committees, a motion may, after two days' notice, be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate, "that this house do now adjourn," provided that if on a day on which a motion is agreed to under this standing order leave has been given to move the adjournment of the house for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, Mr. Speaker, instead of adjourning the house, shall suspend the sitting only until a quarter-past eight of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 0071A.01
current_num: 71A.01
root_num: 183
articleid: 0071A
articlecurrent_num: 71A
articleroot_num: 122
text:
Notwithstanding any standing order or custom of the house, if notice is given of a resolution authorising expenditure in connection with a bill, the house may, if the recommendation of the crown is signified thereto, at any time after such notice appears on the paper resolve itself into committee to consider the resolution, and the resolution, when reported, may be considered forthwith by the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
subarticleid: 0071B.01
current_num: 71B.01
root_num: 184
articleid: 0071B
articlecurrent_num: 71B
articleroot_num: 123
text:
A resolution authorising the issue of money out of the consolidated fund reported from the committee of ways and means may be considered forthwith by the house, and the consideration on report and third reading of a bill ordered to be brought in upon such a resolution or resolutions may be taken forthwith as soon as the bill has been reported from committee of the whole house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1922-06-21
subarticleid: 00240.01
current_num: 24.01
root_num: 68
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 64
text:
While the committees of supply and ways and means are open, the house, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday without any question being put, unless the house shall otherwise resolve.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1922-06-21
subarticleid: 00300.01
current_num: 30.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00300
articlecurrent_num: 30
articleroot_num: 97
text:
Mr. 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: 1922-06-21
subarticleid: 00340.01
current_num: 34.01
root_num: 52
articleid: 00340
articlecurrent_num: 34
articleroot_num: 48
text:
It shall be an instruction to all committees of the whole house to which bills may be committed, that they have power to make such amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject matter of the bill; but that if any such amendments shall not be within the title of the bill, they do amend the title accordingly, and do report the same specially to the house.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1922-06-21
subarticleid: 0071A.01
current_num: 71A.01
root_num: 183
articleid: 0071A
articlecurrent_num: 71A
articleroot_num: 122
text:
When notice has been given of a resolution authorising expenditure in connection with a bill, the house may, if the recommendation of the crown is signified thereto, at any time after such notice appears on the paper resolve itself into committee to consider the resolution.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1926-02-23
subarticleid: 00040.06
current_num: 4.06
root_num: 143
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(e) After a quarter-past eight when government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1926-02-23
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 161
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 112
text:
The house shall not be counted between a quarter-past eight and a quarter past nine o'clock, but if on a division taken on any business between a quarter-past eight and a quarter-past nine o'clock it appears that forty members are not present, the business shall stand over until the next sitting of the House, and the next business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1926-02-23
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Five standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of bills or other business referred to a standing committee, and the procedure in those committees shall be the same as in a select committee unless the house otherwise order. Standing committees may sit during the sitting, and notwithstanding any adjournment of the house. On a division being called in the house, the chairman of a standing committee shall suspend the proceedings in the committee for such time as will, in his opinion, enable members to vote in the division. Any notice of amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the standing committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be twenty. Strangers shall be admitted to the standing committee except when the committee shall order them to withdraw.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1926-02-23
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of not less than thirty nor more than fifty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the classes of bills committed to such committees, to the composition of the house, and to the qualifications of the members selected; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time, for non-attendance or at their own request, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. Provided that, for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, the committee shall be so constituted as to comprise all members sitting for constituencies in Wales and Monmouthshire. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not less than ten nor more than thirty-five members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill. Provided that this order shall not apply to the standing committee on Scottish bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1926-03-30
subarticleid: 00180.02
current_num: 18.02
root_num: 80
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 75
text:
If any member be suspended under this order, his suspension on the first occasion shall continue until the fifth day, and on the second occasion until the twentieth day, on which the House shall sit after the day on which he was suspended, but on any subsequent occasion until the House shall resolve that the suspension of such member do terminate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At eleven of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, except as aforesaid, and at four of the clock on Fridays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted; and, if the house be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and make his report to the house; and if a motion has been proposed for the adjournment of the house, or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such dilatory motion shall lapse without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at eleven and four respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of the standing order ' sittings of the house,' " and, if such a motion be agreed to, the business so specified shall not be interrupted if it is under discussion at eleven o'clock that night, may be entered upon at any hour although opposed, and, if under discussion when the business is postponed, may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
The house shall meet every Friday, at eleven o'clock for private business, petitions, orders of the day, and notices of motions, and shall continue to sit until half-past four o'clock, unless previously adjourned.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 32
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 28
text:
When such business has been disposed of, or at half-past four o'clock precisely, notwithstanding there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the house without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00040.02
current_num: 4.02
root_num: 185
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(a) Until Easter government business shall have precedence at every sitting except the sitting on Wednesday and the sitting on Friday; and at the sitting on Wednesday notices of motion and public bills, other than government bills, shall have precedence of government business, and notices of motions shall have precedence of the orders of the day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00040.03
current_num: 4.03
root_num: 186
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(b) After Easter government business shall have precedence at all sittings, except the sittings on the first, second, third and fourth Fridays after Easter Day and the sittings on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth Fridays after Whit Sunday;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00040.04
current_num: 4.04
root_num: 187
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(c) At the sittings on Wednesday, when government business has not precedence, Mr. Speaker shall at half-past seven of the clock, if the first motion (other than a motion for the adjournment of the house made after the commencement of public business) has not been disposed of, proceed to interrupt the proceedings thereon and such business shall be disposed of as if it were business interrupted at eleven o'clock under Standing Order No. 1; 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00040.05
current_num: 4.05
root_num: 188
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(d) At the sittings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the house will first proceed with unopposed private business, petitions, motions for unopposed returns, and leave of absence to members, and giving notices of motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00080.03
current_num: 8.03
root_num: 158
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Provided that such private business shall always be taken at half-past seven on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the house standing over has been disposed of, and that such postponed business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 00100.01
current_num: 10.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the house shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the house, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the house shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the house so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until half-past seven on the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 0024A.01
current_num: 24A.01
root_num: 189
articleid: 0024A
articlecurrent_num: 24A
articleroot_num: 124
text:
On Fridays the house shall stand adjourned if at any time after one of the clock on the house being counted it shall appear that forty members are not present.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
subarticleid: 0049A.01
current_num: 49A.01
root_num: 182
articleid: 0049A
articlecurrent_num: 49A
articleroot_num: 121
text:
In order to facilitate the business of standing committees, a motion may, after two days' notice, be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate, "that this house do now adjourn," provided that if on a day on which a motion is agreed to under this standing order leave has been given to move the adjournment of the house for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, Mr. Speaker, instead of adjourning the house, shall suspend the sitting only until half-past seven of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1929-07-24
subarticleid: 00040.06
current_num: 4.06
root_num: 190
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
In the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas the following modifications of paragraph (1) of this Standing Order shall have effect:-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1929-07-24
subarticleid: 00040.07
current_num: 4.07
root_num: 191
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(a) Government business shall have precedence on as many Wednesdays immediately before Good Friday as the number of Wednesdays before Christmas on which it has not had precedence, and on as many Fridays immediately before Good Friday as the number of Fridays (reduced by three) on which it had not precedence before Christmas;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1929-07-24
subarticleid: 00040.08
current_num: 4.08
root_num: 192
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(b) After Easter government business shall have precedence at all sittings except the sittings on the second, third, fourth, and fifth Fridays after Easter Day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1929-07-24
subarticleid: 00040.09
current_num: 4.09
root_num: 193
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(c) Standing Order No. 6 shall come into force and have effect after Easter, instead of after Whitsuntide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 135
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At half-past eleven of the clock Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the House without question put, unless proceedings exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this standing order, be then under consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At eleven of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, except as aforesaid, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and make his report to the House; and if a motion has been proposed for the adjournment of the House, or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such dilatory motion shall lapse without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.04
current_num: 1.04
root_num: 104
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, that on the interruption of business the closure may be moved; and if moved, or if proceedings under the closure rule be then in progress, Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall not leave the chair until the questions consequent thereon and on any further motion, as provided in the rule "closure of debate," have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at eleven has been disposed of, no opposed business except proceedings exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this Standing Order shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.06
current_num: 1.06
root_num: 194
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The proceedings on a bill originating in committee of ways and means, proceedings made in pursuance of any act of parliament (including proceedings on the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill), or proceedings in pursuance of any standing order, the proceedings on the reports of the committee of ways and means and of committees authorising the expenditure of public money, except the committee of supply, may be entered upon after eleven of the clock though opposed, shall not be interrupted under the provisions of this standing order, and if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 136
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
All business appointed for any sitting, and not disposed of before the termination of the sitting, shall stand over until the next sitting, or until such other sitting on any day on which the House ordinarily sits as the member in charge of the business may appoint.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.08
current_num: 1.08
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate to the following effect: "That the proceedings on any specified business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of the standing order ' Sittings of the House,' " and, if such a motion be agreed to, the business so specified shall not be interrupted if it is under discussion at eleven of the clock that night, may be entered upon at any hour although opposed, and, if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order, may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always, that after any business exempted from the operation of this order is disposed of, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after eleven of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
The House shall meet every Friday, at eleven of the clock for private business, petitions, orders of the day, and notices of motions. Standing order No. 1 (3) (4) and (7) shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with the substitution of four of the clock for eleven of the clock; and the House shall continue to sit until half-past four of the clock, unless previously adjourned. After the business under consideration at four has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken. At the conclusion of business, or at half-past four of the clock precisely, notwithstanding there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the House without putting any question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00030.04
current_num: 3.04
root_num: 187
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(c) At the sittings on Wednesday, when government business has not precedence, Mr. Speaker shall at half-past seven of the clock, if the first motion (other than a motion for the adjournment of the House made after the commencement of public business) has not been disposed of, proceed to interrupt the proceedings thereon and such business shall be disposed of as if it were business interrupted at eleven of the clock under Standing Order No. 1; 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00030.05
current_num: 3.05
root_num: 188
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(d) At the sittings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the House will first proceed with unopposed private business, petitions, motions for unopposed returns, and leave of absence to members, and ballots for notices of motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00030.09
current_num: 3.09
root_num: 193
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 109
text:
(c) Standing Order No. 4 shall come into force and have effect after Easter, instead of after Whitsuntide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 111
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 92
text:
After Whitsuntide, public bills, other than government bills, shall be arranged on the order book so as to give priority to the bills most advanced, and lords' amendments to public bills appointed to be considered shall be placed first, to be followed by third readings, considerations of report not already entered upon, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 30
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 26
text:
No notice of motion for a date on which notices are entitled to precedence shall be given for any date beyond the second day on which such notices are entitled to precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00060.02
current_num: 6.02
root_num: 195
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No private business shall be considered after three of the clock upon Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and any business not reached shall stand over to the next sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00060.03
current_num: 6.03
root_num: 157
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Any private business entered upon and not disposed of by the time referred to in paragraph (2) of this order, shall be postponed until such time as the chairman of ways and means may determine.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00060.04
current_num: 6.04
root_num: 158
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Private business, if so directed by the chairman of ways and means, shall be taken at half-past seven of the clock on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House standing over has been disposed of, provided that such business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00060.05
current_num: 6.05
root_num: 159
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00070.01
current_num: 7.01
root_num: 114
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Notices of questions shall be given by members in writing to the clerk at the table without reading them viva voce in the House, unless the consent of Mr. Speaker to any particular question has been previously obtained.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00070.05
current_num: 7.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he or any other member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by a quarter before four of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates, unless the member has before questions are disposed of signified his desire to postpone the question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the House, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the House shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the House so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until half-past seven on the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00120.01
current_num: 12.01
root_num: 29
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
articleroot_num: 25
text:
The orders of the day shall be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the paper; the right being reserved to His Majesty's ministers of arranging government business, whether orders of the day or notices of motions in such order as they may think fit, subject to precedence of private members' business on those days on which such business has precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 74
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 70
text:
The committees of supply and ways and means shall be appointed by the House at the commencement of every session, so soon as an address has been agreed to, in answer to His Majesty's speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00140.01
current_num: 14.01
root_num: 146
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Twenty days and no more (unless as hereinafter provided) being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted for the consideration of the annual navy, army, air, and civil estimates, including votes on account. The days allotted shall not include any day on which the question has to be put that Mr. Speaker do leave the chair, or any day on which the business of supply does not stand as first order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00140.04
current_num: 14.04
root_num: 149
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day so allotted, no business other than the business of supply shall be taken before eleven, and no business in committee or proceedings on report of supply shall be taken after eleven, whether a general order exempting business from interruption under the standing order (Sittings of the House) is in force or not, unless the House otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00140.05
current_num: 14.05
root_num: 150
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Of the days so allotted, not more than one day in committee shall be allotted to any vote on account, and not more than one day to the report of that vote. At eleven on the close of the day on which the committee on that vote is taken, and of the day on which the report of that vote is taken, the chairman or Mr. Speaker, as the case may be, shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote or the report.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00140.06
current_num: 14.06
root_num: 151
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten of the clock on the last day but one of the days so allotted the chairman shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put the question with respect to each class of the civil estimates that the total amount of the votes outstanding in that class be granted for the services defined in the class, and shall in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of the votes outstanding in the navy, the army, the air, and the revenue departments estimates be granted for the services defined in those estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00140.07
current_num: 14.07
root_num: 152
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
At ten of the clock on the last, not being earlier than the twentieth, of the allotted days, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the report of the resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each class of the civil estimates, the question, that the House doth agree with the committee in all the outstanding resolutions reported in respect of that class, and shall then put a like question with respect to all the resolutions outstanding in the navy, the army, the air, the revenue departments estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 40
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 36
text:
The committees of supply and ways and means may be fixed for any day on which the House shall meet for despatch of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 83
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into committee Mr. 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 on first going into committee of supply on the navy, army, air or civil estimates respectively, or on any vote of credit, an amendment be moved or question raised relating to the estimates proposed to be taken in supply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00170.01
current_num: 17.01
root_num: 79
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Whenever any member shall have been named by Mr. Speaker, or by the chairman immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the chair, or of abusing the rules of the House by persistently and wifuly obstructing the business of the House, or otherwise, then, if the offence has been committed by such member in the House, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put the question, on a motion being made, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, "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 circumstance to the House; and Mr. Speaker shall on a motion being made thereupon put the same question, without amendment, adjournment, or debate, as if the offence had been committed in the House itself. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00170.03
current_num: 17.03
root_num: 81
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, that suspension from the service of the House shall not exempt the member so suspended from serving on any committee for the consideration of a private bill to which he may have been appointed before his suspension.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00170.05
current_num: 17.05
root_num: 128
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, that if any member, or members acting jointly, who have been suspended under this order from the service of the House, shall refuse to obey the direction of Mr. Speaker, when severally summoned under Mr. Speaker's orders by the serjeant-at-arms to obey such direction, Mr. 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 further question put, be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00170.06
current_num: 17.06
root_num: 87
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided always, that nothing in this resolution shall be taken to deprive the House of the power of proceeding against any member according to ancient usages.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 91
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 80
text:
Mr. 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: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00190.01
current_num: 19.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 96
text:
Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall order 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 resolution. But if, on any occasion, Mr. Speaker or the chairman deems that his powers under this standing order are inadequate, he may name such member or members in pursuance of the standing order "Order in debate," or he may call upon the House to adjudge upon the conduct of such member or members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00190.02
current_num: 19.02
root_num: 116
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 96
text:
Provided always, that members who are ordered to withdraw under this standing order, or who are suspended from the service of the House under the standing order "Order in debate," shall forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the House, subject, however, in the case of such suspended members, to the proviso in that standing order regarding their service on private bill committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00200.01
current_num: 20.01
root_num: 137
articleid: 00200
articlecurrent_num: 20
articleroot_num: 108
text:
In the case of grave disorder arising in the House Mr. Speaker may, if he thinks it necessary to do so, adjourn the House without question put, or suspend any sitting for a time to be named by him.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00210.01
current_num: 21.01
root_num: 89
articleid: 00210
articlecurrent_num: 21
articleroot_num: 78
text:
When a motion is made for the adjournment of a debate, or of the House during any debate, or that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, the debate thereupon shall be confined to the matter of such motion; and no member, having moved or seconded any such motion, shall be entitled to move, or second, any similar motion during the same debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00220.01
current_num: 22.01
root_num: 90
articleid: 00220
articlecurrent_num: 22
articleroot_num: 79
text:
If Mr. Speaker, or the chairman, shall be of opinion that a motion for the adjournment of a debate, or of the House, during any debate, or that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, 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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00230.01
current_num: 23.01
root_num: 68
articleid: 00230
articlecurrent_num: 23
articleroot_num: 64
text:
The House, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday without any question being put, unless the House shall otherwise resolve.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00240.01
current_num: 24.01
root_num: 189
articleid: 00240
articlecurrent_num: 24
articleroot_num: 124
text:
On Fridays the House shall stand adjourned if at any time after one of the clock on the House being counted it shall appear that forty members are not present.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 161
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 112
text:
The House shall not be counted between a quarter-past eight and a quarter past nine of the clock, but if on a division taken on any business between a quarter-past eight and a quarter-past nine of the clock it appears that forty members are not present, the business shall stand over until the next sitting of the House, and the next business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00260.01
current_num: 26.01
root_num: 98
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
After a question has been proposed a member rising in his place may claim to move, "That the question be now put," and, unless it shall appear to the chair that such motion is an abuse of the rules of the House, or an infringement of the rights of the minority, the question, "That the question be now put," shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00260.02
current_num: 26.02
root_num: 99
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
When the motion "That the question be now put" has been carried, and the question consequent thereon has been decided, any further motion may be made (the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, not having been witheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00260.03
current_num: 26.03
root_num: 196
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
When a clause is under consideration, a motion may be made (the assent of the chair as aforesaid, not having been witheld), that the question, that certain words of the clause defined in the motion stand part of the clause, or that the clause stand part of, or be added to, the bill, be now put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00260.05
current_num: 26.05
root_num: 101
articleid: 00260
articlecurrent_num: 26
articleroot_num: 87
text:
Provided always that this rule shall be put in force only when Mr. Speaker or, in committee, the chairman of ways and means or deputy chairman is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00280.01
current_num: 28.01
root_num: 180
articleid: 00280
articlecurrent_num: 28
articleroot_num: 119
text:
In respect of any motion, or in respect of any bill under consideration either in committee of the whole House or on report, Mr. Speaker, or in committee the chairman of ways and means, and the deputy chairman, shall have power to select the new clauses or amendments to be proposed, and may, if he thinks fit, call upon any member who has given notice of an amendment to give such explanation of the object of the amendment as may enable him to form a judgement upon it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00290.01
current_num: 29.01
root_num: 162
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 113
text:
If the opinion of Mr. 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: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00290.02
current_num: 29.02
root_num: 163
articleid: 00290
articlecurrent_num: 29
articleroot_num: 113
text:
After the lapse of two minutes from this direction he shall put the question again, and, if his opinion is again challenged, he shall announce the names of tellers.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00310.01
current_num: 31.01
root_num: 117
articleid: 00310
articlecurrent_num: 31
articleroot_num: 97
text:
Mr. 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: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00320.01
current_num: 32.01
root_num: 39
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 35
text:
When any bill shall be presented by a member, in pursuance of an order of this House, or shall be brought from the Lords, the questions "That this bill be now read a first time," and "That this bill be printed," shall be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00320.02
current_num: 32.02
root_num: 130
articleid: 00320
articlecurrent_num: 32
articleroot_num: 35
text:
A member may, if he thinks fit, after notice, present a bill without an order of the House for its introduction; and when a bill is so presented, the title of the bill shall be read by the clerk at the table, and the bill shall then be deemed to have been read a first time, and shall be printed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00340.01
current_num: 34.01
root_num: 52
articleid: 00340
articlecurrent_num: 34
articleroot_num: 48
text:
It shall be an instruction to all committees to which bills may be committed, that they have power to make such amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject matter of the bill; but that if any such amendments shall not be within the title of the bill, they do amend the title accordingly, and do report the same specially to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00350.01
current_num: 35.01
root_num: 96
articleid: 00350
articlecurrent_num: 35
articleroot_num: 85
text:
In committee on a bill, the preamble shall stand postponed without question put until after the consideration of the clauses and schedules, if any.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00360.01
current_num: 36.01
root_num: 54
articleid: 00360
articlecurrent_num: 36
articleroot_num: 50
text:
In going through a bill no questions shall be put for the filling up words already printed in italics, and commonly called blanks, unless exception be taken thereto; and if no alterations have been made in the words so printed in italics, the bill shall be reported without amendment, unless other amendments have been made thereto.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00380.01
current_num: 38.01
root_num: 42
articleid: 00380
articlecurrent_num: 38
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, the same shall be received, without debate, and a time appointed for taking the same into consideration.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00390.01
current_num: 39.01
root_num: 97
articleid: 00390
articlecurrent_num: 39
articleroot_num: 86
text:
When the order of the day for the consideration of a bill, as amended in the committee of the whole House, has been read, the House shall proceed to consider the same without question put, unless the member in charge thereof shall desire to postpone its consideration, or a motion shall be made to re-commit the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00410.01
current_num: 41.01
root_num: 118
articleid: 00410
articlecurrent_num: 41
articleroot_num: 98
text:
Upon the report stage of any bill no amendment which could not have been proposed in committee without an instruction from the House may be proposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 56
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 52
text:
Lords' amendments to public bills shall be appointed to be considered on a future day, unless the House shall order them to be considered forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00440.01
current_num: 44.01
root_num: 8
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
With respect to any bill brought to this House from the House of Lords, or returned by the House of Lords to this House, with amendments, whereby any pecuniary penalty, forfeiture, or fee shall be authorized, imposed, appropriated, regulated, varied, or extinguished, this House will not insist on its ancient and undoubted privileges in the following cases: -


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00460.01
current_num: 46.01
root_num: 167
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 115
text:
When a bill has been read a second time it shall stand committed to one of the standing committees, unless the House, on motion to be decided without amendment or debate, otherwise order; and such a motion shall not require notice, must be made immediately after the bill is read a second time, may be made by any member, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. But this order shall not apply to-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00460.04
current_num: 46.04
root_num: 170
articleid: 00460
articlecurrent_num: 46
articleroot_num: 115
text:
Provided that the House may, on motion made by the member in charge of a bill, commit the 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, and that if such a motion is opposed Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the member who makes and from the member who opposes the motion, shall without further debate put the question thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Not more than five standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of bills or other business referred to a standing committee, and the procedure in those committees shall be the same as in a select committee unless the House otherwise order. On a division being called in the House, the chairman of a standing committee shall suspend the proceedings in the committee for such time as will, in his opinion, enable members to vote in the division. Any notice of amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the standing committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be twenty. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee except when the committee shall order them to withdraw.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00470.02
current_num: 47.02
root_num: 172
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
One of the standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee, and shall consist of all the members representing Scottish constituencies, together with not less than ten nor more than fifteen other members to be nominated in respect of any bill by the committee of selection, who shall have regard in such nomination to the approximation of the balance of parties in the committee to that in the whole House, and shall have power from time to time to discharge, for non-attendance or at their own request, the members so nominated by them, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00470.05
current_num: 47.05
root_num: 175
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Standing order No. 18 (as to irrelevance and repetition) and standing orders Nos. 26 (1), (2), (3) and (4) and 27 (as to closure) shall apply to standing committees, with the substitution in standing order No. 26 of the chairman of the committee for the chair, and, in standing order No. 27 of 20 for 100 as the number necessary to render the majority effective for the closure, and the chairman of a standing committee shall have the like powers as the chairman has under standing order No. 22 (as to dilatory motions).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00470.06
current_num: 47.06
root_num: 198
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the votes the minutes of their proceedings and any amended clauses of bills committed to them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of not less than thirty nor more than fifty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the composition of the House; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time, for non-attendance or at their own request, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. Provided that, for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, the committee shall be so constituted as to comprise all members sitting for constituencies in Wales and Monmouthshire. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not less than ten nor more than thirty-five members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill, and in adding such members shall have regard to their qualifications. Provided that this order shall not apply to the standing committee on Scottish bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00500.01
current_num: 50.01
root_num: 123
articleid: 00500
articlecurrent_num: 50
articleroot_num: 103
text:
All bills which shall have been committed to one of the said standing committees shall, when reported to the House, be proceeded with as if they had been reported from a committee of the whole House: Provided only, that all bills reported from a standing committee, whether amended or not, shall be considered on report by the House without question put, unless the member in charge thereof desire to postpone its consideration, or a motion be made to re-commit the bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00510.01
current_num: 51.01
root_num: 93
articleid: 00510
articlecurrent_num: 51
articleroot_num: 82
text:
When the chairman has been ordered to make a report to the House, he shall leave the chair without question put. Every such report shall be brought up without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00520.01
current_num: 52.01
root_num: 65
articleid: 00520
articlecurrent_num: 52
articleroot_num: 61
text:
All committees shall have leave to sit, during the sitting of the House and notwithstanding any adjournment of the House on any day on which the House has sat.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00530.01
current_num: 53.01
root_num: 43
articleid: 00530
articlecurrent_num: 53
articleroot_num: 39
text:
No select committee shall, without leave of the House, consist of more than fifteen members; such leave shall not be moved for without notice; and in the case of members proposed to be added or substituted, after the first appointment of the committee, the notice shall include the names of the members proposed to be added or substituted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00560.01
current_num: 56.01
root_num: 46
articleid: 00560
articlecurrent_num: 56
articleroot_num: 42
text:
Lists shall be affixed in some conspicuous place in the committee office and in the lobby of the House of all members serving on each select committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00580.01
current_num: 58.01
root_num: 49
articleid: 00580
articlecurrent_num: 58
articleroot_num: 45
text:
The names of the members present each day on the sitting of any select committee, and in the event of any division taking place, the question proposed, the name of the proposer and the respective votes thereupon of the members present, shall be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of the committee, and such minutes of proceedings shall be reported to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00590.01
current_num: 59.01
root_num: 48
articleid: 00590
articlecurrent_num: 59
articleroot_num: 44
text:
The names of members present each day at the sitting of any select committee shall be entered on the minutes of evidence, if any.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00600.01
current_num: 60.01
root_num: 50
articleid: 00600
articlecurrent_num: 60
articleroot_num: 46
text:
If, at any time during the sitting of a select committee of this House the quorum of members fixed by the House shall not be present, the clerk of the committee shall call the attention of the chairman to the fact, who shall thereupon suspend the proceedings of the committee until a quorum be present, or adjourn the committee to some future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00610.01
current_num: 61.01
root_num: 77
articleid: 00610
articlecurrent_num: 61
articleroot_num: 73
text:
Every select committee having power to send for persons, papers, and records, shall have leave to report their opinion and observations, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them, to the House, and also to make a special report of any matters which they may think fit to bring to the notice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00620.01
current_num: 62.01
root_num: 22
articleid: 00620
articlecurrent_num: 62
articleroot_num: 18
text:
The serjeant-at-arms attending this House shall, from time to time, when the house is going to prayers, give notice thereof to all committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00630.01
current_num: 63.01
root_num: 3
articleid: 00630
articlecurrent_num: 63
articleroot_num: 2
text:
This House will receive no petition for any sum relating to public service or proceed upon any motion for a grant or charge upon the public revenue, whether payable out of the consolidated fund or out of money to be provided by parliament, unless recommended from the crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00640.01
current_num: 64.01
root_num: 4
articleid: 00640
articlecurrent_num: 64
articleroot_num: 10
text:
This House will not proceed upon any petition, motion, or bill, for granting any money, or for releasing or compounding any sum of money owing, to the crown, but in a committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00650.01
current_num: 65.01
root_num: 5
articleid: 00650
articlecurrent_num: 65
articleroot_num: 11
text:
This House will not receive any petition for compounding any sum of money owing to the crown, upon any branch of the revenue, without a certificate from the proper officer or officers annexed to the said petition, stating the debt, what prosecutions have been made for the recovery of such debt, and setting forth how much the petitioner and his security are able to satisfy thereof.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00660.01
current_num: 66.01
root_num: 7
articleid: 00660
articlecurrent_num: 66
articleroot_num: 12
text:
This House will not proceed upon any motion for an address to the crown, praying that any money may be issued, or that any expense may be incurred, but in a committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00670.01
current_num: 67.01
root_num: 63
articleid: 00670
articlecurrent_num: 67
articleroot_num: 59
text:
This House will not receive any petition, or proceed upon any motion for a charge upon the revenues of India, but what is recommended by the crown.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00680.01
current_num: 68.01
root_num: 21
articleid: 00680
articlecurrent_num: 68
articleroot_num: 17
text:
If any motion be made in the House for any aid, grant, or charge upon the public revenue, whether payable out of the consolidated fund or out of money to be provided by parliament, or for any charge upon the people, the consideration and debate thereof shall not be presently entered upon, but shall be adjourned till such further day as the House shall think fit to appoint, and then it shall be referred to a committee of the whole House before any resolution or vote of the House do pass therein.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 183
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 122
text:
When notice has been given of a resolution authorising expenditure in connection with a bill, the House may if the recommendation of the crown is signified thereto, at any time after such notice appears on the paper resolve itself into committee to consider the resolution.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00700.01
current_num: 70.01
root_num: 184
articleid: 00700
articlecurrent_num: 70
articleroot_num: 123
text:
A resolution authorising the issue of money out of the consolidated fund reported from the committee of ways and means may be considered forthwith by the House, and the consideration on report and third reading of a bill ordered to be brought in upon such a resolution or resolutions may be taken forthwith as soon as the bill has been reported from committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00710.01
current_num: 71.01
root_num: 71
articleid: 00710
articlecurrent_num: 71
articleroot_num: 67
text:
In all contracts extending over a period of years, and creating a public charge, actual or prospective, entered into by the government for the coveyance of mails by sea, or for the purpose of telegraphic communications beyond sea, there should be inserted the condition that the contract shall not be binding until it has been approved of by a resolution of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00720.01
current_num: 72.01
root_num: 72
articleid: 00720
articlecurrent_num: 72
articleroot_num: 68
text:
Every such contract, when executed, shall forthwith, if parliament be then sitting, or, if parliament be not then sitting, within fourteen days after it assembles, be laid upon the table of the House, accompanied by a minute of the lords of the treasury, setting forth the grounds on which they have proceeded in authorising it.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00740.01
current_num: 74.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 00740
articlecurrent_num: 74
articleroot_num: 66
text:
There shall be a committee, to be designated "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, to consist of not more than fifteen members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, and of whom five shall be a quorum. The Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, and to report from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00750.01
current_num: 75.01
root_num: 9
articleid: 00750
articlecurrent_num: 75
articleroot_num: 4
text:
Every member offering to present a petition to the House, not being a petition for a private bill, or relating to a private bill before the House, shall confine himself to a statement of the parties from whom it comes, of the number of signatures attached to it, and of the material allegations contained in it, and to the reading of the prayer of such petition.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00760.01
current_num: 76.01
root_num: 10
articleid: 00760
articlecurrent_num: 76
articleroot_num: 5
text:
Every such petition 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 by the direction of Mr. Speaker, who 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 at the table, if required.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00780.01
current_num: 78.01
root_num: 13
articleid: 00780
articlecurrent_num: 78
articleroot_num: 8
text:
All other such petitions, after they shall have been ordered to lie on the table, shall be referred without any question being put to a committee to be designated the committee on public petitions; but if any such petition relate to any matter or subject with respect to which the member presenting it has given notice of a motion, and the said petition has not been ordered to be printed by the committee, such member may, after notice given, move that such petition be printed with the votes.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00790.01
current_num: 79.01
root_num: 14
articleid: 00790
articlecurrent_num: 79
articleroot_num: 9
text:
Subject to the above regulations, petitions against any resolution or bill imposing a tax or duty for the current service of the year shall be henceforth received, and the usage under which the House has refused to entertain such petitions shall be discontinued.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00800.01
current_num: 80.01
root_num: 62
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Whenever the House shall be informed by the clerk at the table of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the chairman of ways and means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, 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: provided that if the House shall adjourn for more than twenty-four hours the Deputy Speaker shall continue to perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker for twenty-four hours only after such adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00800.02
current_num: 80.02
root_num: 129
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
At the commencement of every parliament, or from time to time, as necessity may arise, the House may appoint a deputy chairman, who shall be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the chairman of ways and means, including his powers as Deputy Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00800.03
current_num: 80.03
root_num: 108
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Provided also that the chairman of ways and means or deputy-chairman do take the chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House; and that Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, a panel of not more than five members to act as temporary chairmen of committees, when requested by the chairman of ways and means.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00810.01
current_num: 81.01
root_num: 18
articleid: 00810
articlecurrent_num: 81
articleroot_num: 14
text:
No member's name shall be affixed to any seat in the House before the hour of prayers; and Mr. Speaker shall give directions to the doorkeepers accordingly.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00820.01
current_num: 82.01
root_num: 66
articleid: 00820
articlecurrent_num: 82
articleroot_num: 62
text:
Any member having secured a seat at prayers shall be entitled to retain the same until the rising of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00830.01
current_num: 83.01
root_num: 67
articleid: 00830
articlecurrent_num: 83
articleroot_num: 63
text:
Members may take and subscribe the oath required by law at any time during the sitting of the House, before the orders of the day and notices of motions have been entered upon, or after they have been disposed of; but no debate or business shall be interrupted for that purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00840.01
current_num: 84.01
root_num: 82
articleid: 00840
articlecurrent_num: 84
articleroot_num: 76
text:
Every person returned as a member of this House, who may claim to be a person for the time being by law permitted to make a solemn affirmation or declaration instead of taking an oath, shall henceforth (notwithstanding so much of the resolution adopted by this house on the 22nd day of June 1880 as relates to affirmation) be permitted, without question, to make and subscribe a solemn affirmation in the form prescribed by the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866, as altered by the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, subject to any liability by statute.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00850.01
current_num: 85.01
root_num: 75
articleid: 00850
articlecurrent_num: 85
articleroot_num: 71
text:
Any oath or affirmation taken or made by any witness before the House, or a committee of the whole House, may be administered by the clerk at the table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 15
text:
The serjeant-at-arms attending this House shall, from time to time, take into his custody any stranger 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 stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the House or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw, while the House, or any committee of the whole House, is sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00880.01
current_num: 88.01
root_num: 20
articleid: 00880
articlecurrent_num: 88
articleroot_num: 16
text:
No member of this House shall presume to bring any stranger 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: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00890.01
current_num: 89.01
root_num: 125
articleid: 00890
articlecurrent_num: 89
articleroot_num: 105
text:
If at any sitting of the House, or in committee, any member shall take notice that strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, "That strangers be ordered to withdraw," without permitting any debate or amendment: provided that Mr. Speaker, or the chairman, may, whenever he thinks fit, order the withdrawal of strangers from any part of the House. Provided that any order made under this Standing Order shall not apply to members of the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00900.01
current_num: 90.01
root_num: 23
articleid: 00900
articlecurrent_num: 90
articleroot_num: 19
text:
To prevent the intercepting or losing of letters directed to members of this House, the postmaster of the House or other persons appointed by the Postmaster-General shall attend daily (Sundays excepted) for the delivery and re-direction of all letters arriving in course of post and shall take care, during their stay there, to deliver the same to the several members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other persons bringing notes under the hands of the members sending for the same.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00920.01
current_num: 92.01
root_num: 26
articleid: 00920
articlecurrent_num: 92
articleroot_num: 22
text:
When any letter or packet directed to this House shall come to Mr. Speaker, he 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: 1933-11-14
subarticleid: 00930.01
current_num: 93.01
root_num: 127
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 107
text:
If, during the existence of a parliament, papers are commanded to be presented to this House by His Majesty at any time, the delivery of such papers to the librarian of the House of Commons shall be deemed to be for all purposes the presentation of them to this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
subarticleid: 00140.04
current_num: 14.04
root_num: 149
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day so allotted, no business other than the business of supply and the consideration of the reports of the committee of public accounts and the select committee on estimates shall be taken before eleven, and no business in committee or proceedings on report of supply shall be taken after eleven, whether a general order exempting business from interruption under the standing order (Sittings of the House) is in force or not, unless the House otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
subarticleid: 00470.05
current_num: 47.05
root_num: 175
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
Standing order No. 18 (as to irrelevance and repetition) and standing orders Nos. 26 (1), (2), (3) and (4) and 27 (as to closure) shall apply to standing committees, with the substitution in standing order No. 26 of the chairman of the committee for the chair, and, in standing order No. 27 of 20 for 100 as the number necessary to render the majority effective for the closure, and the chairman of a standing committee shall have the like powers as the chairman has under standing order No. 22 (as to dilatory motions), and under standing order No. 28 (as to selection of amendments).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
subarticleid: 00640.01
current_num: 64.01
root_num: 4
articleid: 00640
articlecurrent_num: 64
articleroot_num: 10
text:
This House will not proceed upon any petition, motion, or bill, for granting any money, or for releasing or compounding any sum of money owing to the crown, but in a committee of the whole House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
subarticleid: 00740.01
current_num: 74.01
root_num: 70
articleid: 00740
articlecurrent_num: 74
articleroot_num: 66
text:
There shall be a committee, to be designated "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 fifteen members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, and of whom five shall be a quorum. The Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, and to report from time to time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
subarticleid: 00800.03
current_num: 80.03
root_num: 108
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Provided also that the chairman of ways and means or deputy-chairman do take the chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
subarticleid: 00800.04
current_num: 80.04
root_num: 122
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, a chairmen's panel of not less than ten members to act as temporary chairmen of committees when requested by the chairman of ways and means. From this panel, of whom the chairman of ways and means and the deputy-chairman shall be ex-officio members, Mr. Speaker shall appoint the chairman of each standing committee and may change the chairman so appointed from time to time. The chairmen's panel, of whom three shall be a quorum, shall have power to report their resolutions on matters of procedure relating to standing committees from time to time to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1935-07-15
subarticleid: 0056A.01
current_num: 56A.01
root_num: 199
articleid: 0056A
articlecurrent_num: 56A
articleroot_num: 125
text:
No document received by the clerk of any select committee shall be withdrawn or altered without the knowledge and approval of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1938-02-01
subarticleid: 0064A.01
current_num: 64A.01
root_num: 200
articleid: 0064A
articlecurrent_num: 64A
articleroot_num: 126
text:
A Bill (other than a Bill which is required to originate in Committee of Ways and Means) the main object of which is the creation of a public charge may either be presented, or brought in upon an Order of the House, by a Minister of the Crown, and, in the case of a Bill so presented or brought in, the creation of the charge shall not require to be authorised by a Committee of the whole House until the Bill has been read a second time, and after the charge has been so authorised the Bill shall be proceeded with in the same manner as a Bill which involves a charge that is subsidiary to its main purpose.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00010.07
current_num: 1.07
root_num: 136
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
All business appointed for any sitting and not disposed of before the termination of the sitting, shall stand over until the next sitting, or until such other sitting on any day on which the House ordinarily sits as the member in charge of the business may appoint.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00060.03
current_num: 6.03
root_num: 157
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Any private business entered upon and not disposed of by the time referred to in paragraph (2) of this order shall be deferred until such time as the chairman of ways and means may determine.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00060.04
current_num: 6.04
root_num: 158
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Private business, if so directed by the chairman of ways and means, shall be taken at half-past seven of the clock on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House standing over has been disposed of, provided that such business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings and, where any opposed private business is so directed by the Chairman of Ways and Means to be taken, the direction shall be taken to include the setting down of any motion contingent, directly or otherwise, thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00170.05
current_num: 17.05
root_num: 128
articleid: 00170
articlecurrent_num: 17
articleroot_num: 75
text:
Provided also, that if any member, or members acting jointly, who have been suspended under this order from the service of the House, shall refuse to obey the direction of Mr. Speaker, when severally summoned under Mr. Speaker's orders by the serjeant at arms to obey such direction, Mr. 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 further question put, be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00190.01
current_num: 19.01
root_num: 115
articleid: 00190
articlecurrent_num: 19
articleroot_num: 96
text:
Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall order 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 resolution. But if, on any occasion, Mr. Speaker or the chairman deems that his powers under this standing order are inadequate, he may name such member or members in pursuance of the standing order "Order in debate," or he may call upon the House to adjudge upon the conduct of such member or members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 0032A.01
current_num: 32A.01
root_num: 201
articleid: 0032A
articlecurrent_num: 32A
articleroot_num: 127
text:
Where a public bill (not being a bill to confirm a Provisional Order or Certificate) is ordered to be read a second time on a day appointed, and it appears that the Standing Orders relative to Private Business may be applicable to the bill, the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills shall examine the Bill with respect to the applicability thereto of the Standing Orders, and shall proceed and report forthwith, and the order of the day relating to the Bill shall not be affected thereby; but if the Examiner reports that any Standing Order applicable to the Bill has not been complied with, and the Standing Orders Committee report that such Standing Order ought not to be dispened with, the order of the day relating to the bill shall be discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00440.02
current_num: 44.02
root_num: 15
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
(1) When the object of such pecuniary penalty or forfeiture is to secure the execution of the act, or the punishment or prevention of offences.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00440.03
current_num: 44.03
root_num: 16
articleid: 00440
articlecurrent_num: 44
articleroot_num: 13
text:
(2) Where such fees are imposed in respect of benefit taken or service rendered under the act, and in order to the execution of the act, and are not made payable into the treasury or exchequer, or in aid of the public revenue, and do not form the ground of public accounting by the parties receiving the same, either in respect of deficit or surplus.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00620.01
current_num: 62.01
root_num: 22
articleid: 00620
articlecurrent_num: 62
articleroot_num: 18
text:
The serjeant at arms attending this House shall, from time to time, when the House is going to prayers, give notice thereof to all committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00800.03
current_num: 80.03
root_num: 108
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Provided also that the chairman of ways and means or deputy chairman do take the chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00800.04
current_num: 80.04
root_num: 122
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, a chairmen's panel of not less than ten members to act as temporary chairmen of committees when requested by the chairman of ways and means. From this panel, of whom the chairman of ways and means and the deputy chairman shall be ex officio members, Mr. Speaker shall appoint the chairman of each standing committee and may change the chairman so appointed from time to time. The chairmen's panel, of whom three shall be a quorum, shall have power to report their resolutions on matters of procedure relating to standing committees from time to time to the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
subarticleid: 00870.01
current_num: 87.01
root_num: 19
articleid: 00870
articlecurrent_num: 87
articleroot_num: 15
text:
The serjeant at arms attending this House shall, from time to time, take into his custody any stranger 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 stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the House or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw, while the House, or any committee of the whole House, is sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1946-11-06
subarticleid: 00940.01
current_num: 94.01
root_num: 202
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 128
text:
On the day to which Parliament shall stand prorogued this House will meet at Eleven of the clock in St. Stephen's Hall; and that, after this House shall have returned from hearing His Majesty's Gracious Speech, Mr. Speaker shall resume the chair at Four of the clock and forthwith adjourn the House without Question put to the Chamber at present appointed for the use of this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-03-05
subarticleid: 00800.05
current_num: 80.05
root_num: 203
articleid: 00800
articlecurrent_num: 80
articleroot_num: 58
text:
Any member of a standing committee may act as temporary chairman of the committee when requested by the chairman of the committee, provided that it shall not be for more than one quarter of an hour. Paragraph (5) of standing order No. 47 shall not apply when a temporary chairman of a standing committee is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at half-past two of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 204
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution: Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been proposed after ten of the clock Mr. Speaker shall, after the expiration of half an hour after that motion has been proposed, adjourn the House without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At ten of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, except as hereinafter provided, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and make his report to the House; and if a motion has been proposed for the adjournment of the House, or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such dilatory motion shall lapse without question put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at ten of the clock has been disposed of, no opposed business except proceedings exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this Standing Order shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.06
current_num: 1.06
root_num: 194
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The proceedings on a bill originating in committee of ways and means, proceedings made in pursuance of any act of parliament (including proceedings on the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill), or proceedings in pursuance of any standing order, the proceedings on the reports of the committee of ways and means and of committees authorising the expenditure of public money, except the committee of supply, may be entered upon after ten of the clock though opposed, shall not be interrupted under the provisions of this standing order, and if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.08
current_num: 1.08
root_num: 106
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown, either with or without notice at the commencement of public business to be decided without amendment or debate, to the effect either-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 205
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
(a) That the proceedings on any specifed business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of the standing order ' Sittings of the House '; or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.10
current_num: 1.10
root_num: 206
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
(b) That the proceedings on any specified business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of the standing order ' Sittings of the House ' for a specified period after the hour appointed for the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.11
current_num: 1.11
root_num: 207
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
If a motion made under the preceding paragraph be agreed to, the business so specified shall not be interrupted if it is under discussion at the hour appointed for the interruption of business, may be entered upon at any hour although opposed, and, if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order, may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business: Provided that business exempted for a specified period shall not be entered upon, or be resumed after the expiration of that period, and, if not concluded earlier, shall be interrupted at the end of that period, and the relevant provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) of this standing order shall then apply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00010.12
current_num: 1.12
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Provided always that not more than one motion under paragraph (8) may be made at any one sitting, and that, after any business exempted from the operation of the order is disposed of after ten of the clock, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after the hour appointed for the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
The House shall meet on Fridays at eleven of the clock for private business, petitions, orders of the day and notices of motions. Standing Order No. 1 shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with the omission of paragraph (1) thereof and with the substitution of references to four of the clock for references to ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 111
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 92
text:
After Whitsuntide, public bills, other than government bills, shall be arranged on the order book so as to give priority to the bills most advanced, and lords amendments to public bills appointed to be considered shall be placed first, to be followed by third readings, considerations of report not already entered upon, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00060.02
current_num: 6.02
root_num: 195
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No private business shall be considered after a quarter to three of the clock upon Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and any business not reached shall stand over to the next sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00060.04
current_num: 6.04
root_num: 158
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Private business, if so directed by the chairman of ways and means, shall be taken at seven of the clock on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House standing over has been disposed of, provided that such business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings and, where any opposed private business is so directed by the Chairman of Ways and Means to be taken, the direction shall be taken to include the setting down of any motion contingent, directly or otherwise, thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00060.05
current_num: 6.05
root_num: 159
articleid: 00060
articlecurrent_num: 6
articleroot_num: 111
text:
No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00070.02
current_num: 7.02
root_num: 131
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Questions shall be taken on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, after private business has been disposed of, and not later than a quarter to three of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00070.03
current_num: 7.03
root_num: 132
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
No questions shall be taken after half-past three of the clock, except questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the minister to whom they are addressed, and questions which have not appeared on the paper, but which are 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: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00070.04
current_num: 7.04
root_num: 133
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Any member who desires an oral answer to his question may distinguish it by an asterisk, but notice of any such question must appear at latest on the notice paper circulated two days (excluding Sunday) before that on which an answer is desired. Provided that questions received at the Table Office on Monday and Tuesday before half-past two of the clock and on Friday before eleven of the clock, may, if so desired by the member, be put down for oral answer on the following Wednesday, Thursday and Monday, respectively.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00070.05
current_num: 7.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he or any other member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by half-past three of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates, unless the member has before questions are disposed of signified his desire to postpone the question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00070.06
current_num: 7.06
root_num: 208
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Whenever the House is adjourned for more than one day, notices of questions received at the Table Office at any time not later than half-past four of the clock on either of the two last days on which the House is not sitting (excluding any Saturday or Sunday) shall be treated as if either day were a day on which the House were sitting at half-past four of the clock and the notice had been received after half-past two of the clock, and notices of questions received at the Table Office at any time not later than half-past four of the clock on a day before the penultimate day shall be treated as if they had been so received on the penultimate day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made unless by a Minister of the Crown before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the House, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the House shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the House so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until seven of the clock on the same day. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00080.02
current_num: 8.02
root_num: 209
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 77
text:
Any proceeding which has been postponed under this order shall be exempted from the provisions of the standing order ' Sittings of the House ' for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings upon a motion under this order, and may be resumed and proceeded with at or after ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00120.01
current_num: 12.01
root_num: 29
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
articleroot_num: 25
text:
The orders of the day shall be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the paper; the right being reserved to His Majesty's ministers of arranging government business, whether orders of the day or notices of motions, in such order as they may think fit, subject to precedence of private members' business on those days on which such business has precedence.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.01
current_num: 14.01
root_num: 146
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.02
current_num: 14.02
root_num: 149
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day so allotted, being a day on which committee or report of supply stands as the first order, no business other than the business of supply shall be taken before ten of the clock, and no business of supply shall be taken after ten of the clock, whether a general order exempting business from interruption under the standing order ' Sittings of the House ' is in force or not, unless the House otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.03
current_num: 14.03
root_num: 210
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
For the purposes of this order the business of supply shall consist of proceedings on motions ' That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair '; supplementary or additional estimates for the current financial year; any excess vote; votes on account; main estimates whether for the coming or the current financial year; and reports of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Select Committee on Estimates. But such business shall not include any vote of credit or votes for supplementary or additional estimates presented by the government for war expenditure.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.04
current_num: 14.04
root_num: 211
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day not earlier than the seventh allotted day, being a day before the 31st of March, the chairman shall at half-past nine of the clock, forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration and shall then forthwith put the question with respect to any vote on account and all such navy, army and air votes for the coming financial year as shall have been put down on at least one previous day for consideration in committee of supply on an allotted day, that the total amount of all such votes outstanding be granted for those services. And the chairman shall then in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of all such outstanding estimates supplementary to those of the current financial year as shall have been presented seven clear days, and any outstanding excess vote (provided that the Committee of Public Accounts shall have reported allowing such vote), be granted for the services defined in the supplementary estimates or any statement of excess.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.05
current_num: 14.05
root_num: 212
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day not earlier than the eighth allotted day, being a day before the 31st of March, Mr. Speaker shall at half-past nine of the clock forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the report of the resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each resolution ordered to be reported by the committee of supply and not yet agreed to by the House, the question ' That this House doth agree with the committee in that resolution.'


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.06
current_num: 14.06
root_num: 151
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On the last day but one of the allotted days the chairman shall at half-past nine of the clock forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put the question with respect to each class of the civil estimates that the total amount of the votes outstanding in that class be granted for the services defined in the class, and shall in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of the votes outstanding in the revenue departments and defence department estimates, and in the navy, the army, and the air estimates be granted for the services defined in those estimates.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.07
current_num: 14.07
root_num: 152
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On the last day of the allotted days, Mr. Speaker shall, at half-past nine of the clock, forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the report of the resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each class of the civil estimates, the question that the House doth agree with the committee in all the outstanding resolutions reported in respect of that class, and shall then put a like question with respect to all the resolutions outstanding in the revenue departments and defence department estimates, and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00140.08
current_num: 14.08
root_num: 153
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On any day upon which the chairman or Mr. Speaker is, under this order, directed to put forthwith any question, the consideration of the business of supply shall not be anticipated by a motion of adjournment, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings for that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00160.01
current_num: 16.01
root_num: 94
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 83
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into committee other than a committee on a bill, Mr. Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee, unless on a day on which the committee of supply stands as the first order of the day a minister of the crown moves, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair, " for the purpose of enabling a motion on going into committee of supply to be moved as an amendment to that question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00160.02
current_num: 16.02
root_num: 213
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 83
text:
Notwithstanding the practice of the House which prohibits reference to matters involving legislation in the course of debate in, or on going into, committee of supply, Mr. Speaker may, when an amendment to the question " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair " is under discussion, 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 matters.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0023A.01
current_num: 23A.01
root_num: 214
articleid: 0023A
articlecurrent_num: 23A
articleroot_num: 130
text:
Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to Mr. Speaker by His Majesty's Government that the public interest requires that the House should meet at any earlier time during the adjournment, and Mr. Speaker is satisfied that the public interest does so require, he may give notice that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and the government business to be transacted on the day on which the House shall so meet shall, subject to the publication of notice thereof in the order paper to be circulated on the day on which the House shall so meet, be such as the government may appoint, but subject as aforesaid the House shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to the day on which it shall so meet, and any government order of the day and government notices of motions that may stand on the order book for any day shall be appointed for the day on which the House shall so meet; provided also that in event of Mr. Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the chairman of ways and means, or the deputy chairman, be authorised to act in his stead for the purposes of this standing order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00250.01
current_num: 25.01
root_num: 161
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 112
text:
The House shall not be counted on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays between half-past seven and half-past eight of the clock, but if on a division taken on any business between half-past seven and half-past eight of the clock it appears that forty members are not present, the business shall stand over until the next sitting of the House, and the next business shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00250.02
current_num: 25.02
root_num: 215
articleid: 00250
articlecurrent_num: 25
articleroot_num: 112
text:
Paragraph (1) of this standing order shall apply to sittings on Fridays, with the substitution of references to a quarter-past one and a quarter-past two of the clock for the references to half-past seven and half-past eight of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0033A.01
current_num: 33A.01
root_num: 216
articleid: 0033A
articlecurrent_num: 33A
articleroot_num: 131
text:
Whenever the House is adjourned for more than one day, notices of amendments, new clauses or new schedules (whether they are to be moved in committee or on report) received by the clerks at the table at any time not later than half-past four of the clock on the last day on which the House is not sitting (excluding any Saturday or Sunday) may be accepted by them as if the House was sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0033A.02
current_num: 33A.02
root_num: 217
articleid: 0033A
articlecurrent_num: 33A
articleroot_num: 131
text:
Notices of amendments, new clauses or new schedules to be moved in committee may be accepted by the clerks at the table before a bill has been read a second time.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0034A.01
current_num: 34A.01
root_num: 218
articleid: 0034A
articlecurrent_num: 34A
articleroot_num: 132
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into committee on a bill, Mr. 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: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00430.01
current_num: 43.01
root_num: 56
articleid: 00430
articlecurrent_num: 43
articleroot_num: 52
text:
Lords amendments to public bills shall be appointed to be considered on a future day, unless the House shall order them to be considered forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0045A.01
current_num: 45A.01
root_num: 219
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 133
text:
There shall be a committee, to be designated ' the Business Committee,' consisting of the members of the chairmen's panel together with not more than five other members to be nominated by Mr. Speaker, which committee


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0045A.02
current_num: 45A.02
root_num: 220
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 133
text:
(1) shall, in the case of any bill in respect of which an allocation of time order has been made by the House, allotting a specified number of days or portions of days to the consideration of the bill in committee of the whole House or on report, divide the bill into such parts as they may see fit and allot to each part so many days or portions of a day so allotted as they may consider appropriate;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0045A.03
current_num: 45A.03
root_num: 221
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 133
text:
(2) may, if they think fit, do the like in repsect of any bill to the consideration of which in committee of the whole House or on report a specified number of days or portions of days has been allotted by general agreement notified orally to the House by a minister of the crown; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0045A.04
current_num: 45A.04
root_num: 222
articleid: 0045A
articlecurrent_num: 45A
articleroot_num: 133
text:
(3) shall report their recommendations to the House, and on consideration of any report the question ' That this House doth agree with the committee in the said report ' shall be put forthwith and, if agreed to, shall have effect as if it were an order of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0045B.01
current_num: 45B.01
root_num: 223
articleid: 0045B
articlecurrent_num: 45B
articleroot_num: 134
text:
If, during the consideration of a bill in committee of the whole House or in a standing committee, the chairman is of opinion that the principle of a clause and any matters arising thereon have been adequately discussed in the course of debate on the amendments proposed thereto, he may, after the last amendment to be selected has been disposed of, so state his opinion and shall then forthwith put the question ' That the clause (or, the clause as amended) stand part of the bill.'


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00470.01
current_num: 47.01
root_num: 120
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed to a standing committee, and the procedure in those committees shall be the same as in a select committee unless the House otherwise order. On a division being called in the House, the chairman of a standing committee shall suspend the proceedings in the committee for such time as will, in his opinion, enable members to vote in the division. Any notice of amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the standing committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be fifteen. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee except when the committee shall order them to withdraw.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00480.01
current_num: 48.01
root_num: 121
articleid: 00480
articlecurrent_num: 48
articleroot_num: 101
text:
Each of the said standing committees shall consist of twenty members, to be nominated by the committee of selection, who shall have regard to the composition of the House; and shall have power to discharge members from time to time, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. Provided that, for the consideration of all public bills relating exclusively to Wales and Monmouthshire, the committee shall be so constituted as to comprise all members sitting for constituencies in Wales and Monmouthshire. The committee of selection shall also have power to add not more than thirty members to a standing committee in respect of any bill referred to it, to serve on the committee during the consideration of such bill, and in adding such members shall have regard to their qualifications. Provided that this order shall not apply to the standing committee on Scottish bills.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.01
current_num: 48A.01
root_num: 224
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
A standing committee to whom a bill has been committed shall meet to consider that bill on such days of the week (being days on which the House sits) as may be appointed by the standing committee at half-past ten of the clock, unless the committee otherwise determine: Provided that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.02
current_num: 48A.02
root_num: 225
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
(i) the first meeting of a standing committee to consider a bill shall be on a day and at a time to be named by the chairman of the committee;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.03
current_num: 48A.03
root_num: 226
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
(ii) no standing committee shall sit between the hours of one of the clock and half-past three of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.04
current_num: 48A.04
root_num: 227
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
If a standing committee is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without question put at one of the clock: Provided that-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.05
current_num: 48A.05
root_num: 228
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
(i) if, in the opinion of the chairman, the proceedings on a bill could be brought to a conclusion by a short extension of the sitting, he may defer adjourning the committee until a quarter past one of the clock;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.06
current_num: 48A.06
root_num: 229
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
(ii) if proceedings under the standing order " Closure of debate " be in progress at the time when the chairman would be required to adjourn the committee under this paragraph, he shall not adjourn the committee until the questions consequent thereon and on any further motion as provided in that standing order, have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048A.07
current_num: 48A.07
root_num: 230
articleid: 0048A
articlecurrent_num: 48A
articleroot_num: 135
text:
Government bills referred to a standing committee shall be considered in whatever order the government may decide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048B.01
current_num: 48B.01
root_num: 231
articleid: 0048B
articlecurrent_num: 48B
articleroot_num: 136
text:
An allocation of time order relating, or so much thereof as relates, to the committee stage, made in respect of a bill committed or to be committed to a standing committee, shall, as soon as the bill has been allocated to a standing committee, stand referred without any question being put to a sub-committee of that standing committee appointed under paragraph (2) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048B.02
current_num: 48B.02
root_num: 232
articleid: 0048B
articlecurrent_num: 48B
articleroot_num: 136
text:
There shall be a sub-committee of every standing committee, to be designated the business sub-committee, for the consideration of any allocation of time order or part thereof made in respect of any bill allocated to that standing committee, and to report to that committee upon-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048B.07
current_num: 48B.07
root_num: 237
articleid: 0048B
articlecurrent_num: 48B
articleroot_num: 136
text:
As soon as may be after an allocation of time order relating to a bill committed to a standing committee has been made, Mr. Speaker shall nominate the chairman of the standing committee in respect of that bill and seven members of the standing committee as constituted in respect of that bill to be members of the business sub-committee to consider that order, and those members shall be discharged from the sub-committee when that bill has been reported to the House by the standing committee; the chairman of the committee shall be the chairman of the sub-committee; the quorum of the sub-committee shall be four; and the sub-committee shall have power to report from time to time to the standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048B.08
current_num: 48B.08
root_num: 238
articleid: 0048B
articlecurrent_num: 48B
articleroot_num: 136
text:
All resolutions of a business sub-committee shall be printed and circulated with the Votes. If, when any such resolutions have been reported to the standing committee, a motion " That this committee doth agree with the resolution (or resolutions) of the business sub-committee," is moved by the member at the time in charge of the bill, such a motion shall not require notice, and shall be moved at the commencement of proceedings at any sitting of the standing committee; and the question thereon shall be decided without amendment or debate, and, if resolved in the affirmative, the said resolution (or resolutions) shall operate as though included in the allocation of time order made by the House; but, if resolved in the negative, the resolution shall be referred back to the business sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0048C.01
current_num: 48C.01
root_num: 239
articleid: 0048C
articlecurrent_num: 48C
articleroot_num: 137
text:
Mr. Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Solicitor General, and Mr. Solicitor General for Scotland, being members of this House, or any of them, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or move any motion or form part of the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00490.01
current_num: 49.01
root_num: 182
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 129
text:
In order to facilitate the business of standing committees a motion may, after two days' notice, be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, in either of the following forms:-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00490.02
current_num: 49.02
root_num: 240
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 129
text:
(a) " That this House do now adjourn " (in which case, if the question thereon be not previously agreed to, Mr. Speaker shall put the question half an hour after it has been proposed), or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00490.03
current_num: 49.03
root_num: 241
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 129
text:
(b) " That this House do now adjourn till seven of the clock this day " (in which case the question thereon shall be decided without amendment or debate):


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00490.04
current_num: 49.04
root_num: 242
articleid: 00490
articlecurrent_num: 49
articleroot_num: 129
text:
Provided that if, on a day on which a motion in the terms of paragraph (a) of this order stands on the paper, leave has been given to move the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, or opposed private business has been set down by direction of the chairman of ways and means, the motion shall be moved in the terms and subject to the procedure prescribed by paragraph (b) of this standing order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00690.01
current_num: 69.01
root_num: 183
articleid: 00690
articlecurrent_num: 69
articleroot_num: 122
text:
When notice has been given of a motion authorising expenditure in connection with a bill, the House may if the recommendation of the crown is signified thereto, at any time after such notice appears on the paper resolve itself into committee to consider the motion, and any resolution come to by such committee may, with the general agreement of the House, be reported forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0070A.01
current_num: 70A.01
root_num: 243
articleid: 0070A
articlecurrent_num: 70A
articleroot_num: 138
text:
When a minister of the crown in committee of ways and means has moved the first of several motions for imposing, renewing, varying or repealing any charge upon the people, the chairman shall forthwith put the question thereupon and shall then successively put forthwith the question on each further motion moved by the minister, save the last motion; and all such questions shall be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 0070A.02
current_num: 70A.02
root_num: 244
articleid: 0070A
articlecurrent_num: 70A
articleroot_num: 138
text:
On consideration of any resolution reported from the committee of ways and means for imposing, renewing, varying or repealing a charge upon the people, the question ' That this House doth agree with the committee in the said resolution ' shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00930.01
current_num: 93.01
root_num: 127
articleid: 00930
articlecurrent_num: 93
articleroot_num: 107
text:
If, during the existence of a parliament, papers are commanded to be presented to this House by His Majesty at any time, the delivery of such papers to the Votes and Proceedings Office shall be deemed to be for all purposes the presentation of them to this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00940.01
current_num: 94.01
root_num: 245
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 139
text:
Where, under any Act of Parliament, a statutory instrument is required to be laid before Parliament, or before this House, the delivery of a copy of such instrument to the Votes and Proceedings Office on any day during the existence of a Parliament shall be deemed to be for all purposes the laying of it before the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
subarticleid: 00950.01
current_num: 95.01
root_num: 246
articleid: 00950
articlecurrent_num: 95
articleroot_num: 140
text:
When any communication has been received by Mr. Speaker, drawing attention to the fact that copies of any statutory instruments have yet to be laid before Parliament, and explaining why such copies have not been so laid before the instrument came into operation, Mr. Speaker shall thereupon lay such communication upon the Table of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1947-12-17
subarticleid: 00940.01
current_num: 94.01
root_num: 245
articleid: 00940
articlecurrent_num: 94
articleroot_num: 139
text:
Where, under any Act of Parliament, a statutory instrument is required to be laid before Parliament, or before this House, the delivery of a copy of such instrument to the Votes and Proceedings Office on any day during the existence of a Parliament shall be deemed to be for all purposes the laying of it before the House. Provided that nothing in this Order shall apply to any Statutory Instrument being an Order which is subject to special parliamentary procedure or to any other instrument which is required to be laid before Parliament, or before this House, for any period before it comes into operation.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 00470.02
current_num: 47.02
root_num: 172
articleid: 00470
articlecurrent_num: 47
articleroot_num: 100
text:
One of the standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all public bills or other business relating exclusively to Scotland and referred or committed to a standing committee, and shall consist of all the members representing Scottish constituencies, together with not less than ten nor more than fifteen other members to be nominated in respect of any bill or other business by the committee of selection, who shall have regard in such nomination to the approximation of the balance of parties in the committee to that in the whole House, and shall have power from time to time to discharge, for non-attendance or at their own request, the members so nominated by them, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 0048D.01
current_num: 48D.01
root_num: 247
articleid: 0048D
articlecurrent_num: 48D
articleroot_num: 141
text:
If, after any public bill has been printed, whether introduced in this House or brought from the House of Lords, Mr. Speaker is of opinion that its provisions relate exclusively to Scotland, he shall give a certificate to that effect.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 0048D.02
current_num: 48D.02
root_num: 248
articleid: 0048D
articlecurrent_num: 48D
articleroot_num: 141
text:
On the order for the second reading of any such bill being read, a motion, to be decided without amendment or debate, may be made by a minister of the crown, ' That the bill be referred to the standing committee on Scottish bills', provided that if the motion shall have been objected to by not less than ten members, it shall pass in the negative.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 0048D.03
current_num: 48D.03
root_num: 249
articleid: 0048D
articlecurrent_num: 48D
articleroot_num: 141
text:
A bill so referred to the standing committee shall be considered in relation to the principle of the bill, and shall be reported as having been so considered to the House and shall be ordered to be read a second time upon a future day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 0048D.04
current_num: 48D.04
root_num: 250
articleid: 0048D
articlecurrent_num: 48D
articleroot_num: 141
text:
When the order of the day for the second reading of any such bill has been read, a motion to be decided without amendment or debate may be made by a minister of the crown 'That the bill be committed to the standing committee on Scottish bills': Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in the case of any bill to the second reading of which notice of an amendment has been given by not less than six members.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 0048D.05
current_num: 48D.05
root_num: 251
articleid: 0048D
articlecurrent_num: 48D
articleroot_num: 141
text:
If such a motion shall have been agreed to, the bill shall be deemed to have been read a second time, and shall be committed to the standing committee on Scottish bills, and shall proceed through its remaining stages according to the ordinary practice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
subarticleid: 0048E.01
current_num: 48E.01
root_num: 252
articleid: 0048E
articlecurrent_num: 48E
articleroot_num: 142
text:
A motion may be made by a minister of the crown at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate, to the effect that the committee of supply be discharged from considering the estimates or any part of the estimates for which the Secretary of State for Scotland is responsible, and that such estimates or part of such estimates be referred to the standing committee on Scottish bills for consideration on not more than six days in any session and if such motion be agreed to, the standing committee shall consider the estimates referred to them and shall from time to time report only that they have considered the said estimates or any of them, which shall again stand referred to the committee of supply after such report has been brought up.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.01
current_num: 1.01
root_num: 102
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall meet on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at half-past two of the clock, and will first proceed with private business, petitions, motions for unopposed returns and leave of absence to members, questions and ballots for notices of motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.02
current_num: 1.02
root_num: 103
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
At ten of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, except as hereinafter provided, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall 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, 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: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.03
current_num: 1.03
root_num: 104
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
On the interruption of business the closure may be moved; and if moved, or if proceedings under standing order no. 29 (Closure of debate) be then in progress, Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall not leave the chair until the questions consequent thereon and on any further motion, as provided in standing order no. 29 (Closure of debate), have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.04
current_num: 1.04
root_num: 194
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The proceedings on a bill originating in committee of ways and means, proceedings made in pursuance of any act of parliament (including proceedings on the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill), or proceedings in pursuance of standing order no. 87 (Contracts to be approved by resolution), the proceedings on the reports of the committee of ways and means and of the committees authorising the expenditure of public money, except the committee of supply, may be entered upon after ten of the clock though opposed, shall not be interrupted under the provisions of this order, and if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.05
current_num: 1.05
root_num: 136
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
An order of the day not disposed of before the termination of a sitting shall be deferred to such day being a day on which the House ordinarily sits as the member in charge of that order may appoint and any order of the day not reached before the termination of a sitting shall, unless the member in charge of the order has given other instructions to the clerk at the table, stand over until the next sitting.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.06
current_num: 1.06
root_num: 105
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
After the business under consideration at ten of the clock has been disposed of, no opposed business except proceedings exempted as hereinafter provided from the operation of this order shall be taken.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.08
current_num: 1.08
root_num: 205
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
(a) That the proceedings on any specifed business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of standing order no. 1 (Sittings of the House); or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.09
current_num: 1.09
root_num: 206
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
(b) That the proceedings on any specified business be exempted at this day's sitting from the provisions of standing order no. 1 (Sittings of the House) for a specified period after ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.10
current_num: 1.10
root_num: 207
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
If a motion made under the preceding paragraph be agreed to, the business so specified shall not be interrupted if it is under discussion at ten of the clock, may be entered upon at any hour although opposed, and, if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order, may be resumed and proceeded with, though opposed, after the interruption of business: Provided that business exempted for a specified period shall not be entered upon, or be resumed after the expiration of that period, and, if not concluded earlier, shall be interrupted at the end of that period, and the relevant provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this order shall then apply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.11
current_num: 1.11
root_num: 107
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
Not more than one motion under paragraph (7) may be made at any one sitting, and after any business exempted from the operation of this order is disposed of after ten of the clock, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions applicable to business taken after ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00010.12
current_num: 1.12
root_num: 204
articleid: 00010
articlecurrent_num: 1
articleroot_num: 89
text:
The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution: Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been made at or after ten of the clock Mr. 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: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00020.01
current_num: 2.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00020
articlecurrent_num: 2
articleroot_num: 27
text:
The House shall meet on Fridays at eleven of the clock, and will first proceed with private business, petitions, and motions for unopposed returns and leave of absence to members. Standing order no. 1 (Sittings of the House) shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with the omission of paragraph (1) thereof and with the substitution of references to four of the clock for references to ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00030.01
current_num: 3.01
root_num: 68
articleid: 00030
articlecurrent_num: 3
articleroot_num: 64
text:
The House, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.01
current_num: 4.01
root_num: 185
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(a) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this order, government business shall, until Easter, have precedence at every sitting except at the sittings on Wednesdays and Fridays, at which sittings unofficial members' business shall have precedence; and on Wednesdays notices of motions shall have precedence of orders of the day, and on Fridays public bills shall have precedence of notices of motions.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.02
current_num: 4.02
root_num: 186
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(b) After Easter government business shall have precedence at all sittings, except the sittings on the first, second, third and fourth Fridays after Easter Day and the sittings on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth Fridays after Whit Sunday.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.03
current_num: 4.03
root_num: 187
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(c) At the sittings on Wednesday, when government business has not precedence Mr. Speaker shall at seven of the clock, if the first motion (other than a motion for the adjournment of the House made after the commencement of public business) has not been disposed of, proceed to interrupt the proceedings thereon and such business shall be disposed of as if it were business interrupted at ten of the clock under Standing order no. 1 (Sittings of the House). 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.04
current_num: 4.04
root_num: 190
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 146
text:
In the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas the following modifications of paragraph (1) of this order shall have effect:-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.05
current_num: 4.05
root_num: 191
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(a) Government business shall have precedence on as many Wednesdays immediately before Good Friday as the number of Wednesdays before Christmas on which it has not had precedence, and on as many Fridays immediately before Good Friday as the number of Fridays (reduced by three) on which it had not precedence before Christmas.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00040.06
current_num: 4.06
root_num: 192
articleid: 00040
articlecurrent_num: 4
articleroot_num: 146
text:
(b) After Easter government business shall have precedence at all sittings except the sittings on the second, third, fourth, and fifth Fridays after Easter Day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00050.01
current_num: 5.01
root_num: 111
articleid: 00050
articlecurrent_num: 5
articleroot_num: 92
text:
After Whitsuntide (or, in the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas, after Easter) public bills other than government bills shall be arranged on the order paper in the following order: considerations of lords amendments, third readings, considerations of report 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: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00070.04
current_num: 7.04
root_num: 158
articleid: 00070
articlecurrent_num: 7
articleroot_num: 111
text:
Private business, if so directed by the chairman of ways and means, shall be taken at seven of the clock on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House standing over has been disposed of, provided that such business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings and, where any opposed private business is so directed by the chairman of ways and means to be taken, the direction shall be taken to include the setting down of any motion contingent, directly or otherwise, thereon.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.01
current_num: 8.01
root_num: 114
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Notices of questions shall be given by members in writing to a clerk at the table and shall not be read viva voce in the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.03
current_num: 8.03
root_num: 132
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
No questions shall be taken after half-past three of the clock, except questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the minister to whom they are addressed, and questions which have not appeared on the paper, but which are in Mr. 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: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.04
current_num: 8.04
root_num: 133
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
A member who desires an oral answer to his question shall distinguish it by an asterisk, but notice of any such question must appear at latest on the notice paper circulated two days (excluding Sunday) before that on which an answer is desired. Provided that questions received at the Table Office on Monday and Tuesday before half-past two of the clock and on Friday before eleven of the clock, may, if so desired by the member, be put down for oral answer on the following Wednesday, Thursday and Monday, respectively.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.05
current_num: 8.05
root_num: 134
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by half-past three of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates, unless the member has before half-past three of the clock signified his desire to postpone the question.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.06
current_num: 8.06
root_num: 208
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Whenever the House is adjourned for more than one day, notices of questions received at the Table Office at any time during the adjournment shall be treated-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.07
current_num: 8.07
root_num: 253
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(a) if received not later than half-past four of the clock on the last day but one, as if they had been received after half-past two of the clock during a sitting of the House on that day;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.08
current_num: 8.08
root_num: 254
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(b) if received after half-past four of the clock on the last day but one and not later than half-past four of the clock on the last day, as if they had been received after half-past two of the clock during a sitting of the House on that day; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.09
current_num: 8.09
root_num: 255
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
(c) if received after half-past four of the clock on the last day, as if they had been received before half-past two of the clock on the day the House meets:


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00080.10
current_num: 8.10
root_num: 256
articleid: 00080
articlecurrent_num: 8
articleroot_num: 95
text:
Provided that if the last day of the adjournment be a Sunday, the Friday and Thursday immediately preceding shall for the purposes of this paragraph be deemed to be respectively the last day and the last day but one of the adjournment; and that if the last day be a Monday the preceding Friday shall for the purposes aforesaid be deemed to be the last day but one of the adjournment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00090.01
current_num: 9.01
root_num: 88
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 77
text:
No motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made unless by a minister of the crown before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and shall either obtain the leave of the House, or, if such leave be refused, the assent of not less than forty members who shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the House shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine that such motion shall be made. 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 seven of the clock on the same day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00090.02
current_num: 9.02
root_num: 209
articleid: 00090
articlecurrent_num: 9
articleroot_num: 77
text:
Any proceeding which has been postponed under this order shall be exempted from the provisions of standing order no. 1 (Sittings of the House) for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings upon a motion under this order, and may be resumed and proceeded with at or after ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00100.02
current_num: 10.02
root_num: 240
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 129
text:
(a) ' That this House do now adjourn ' (in which case, if the question thereon be not previously agreed to, Mr. Speaker shall put the question half an hour after it has been proposed), or


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00100.03
current_num: 10.03
root_num: 241
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 129
text:
(b) ' That this House do now adjourn till seven of the clock this day ' (in which case the question thereon shall be decided without amendment or debate):


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00100.04
current_num: 10.04
root_num: 242
articleid: 00100
articlecurrent_num: 10
articleroot_num: 129
text:
Provided that if, on a day on which notice of a motion in the terms of paragraph (a) of this order stands on the paper, leave has been given to move the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, or opposed private business has been set down by direction of the chairman of ways and means, the motion shall be moved in the terms and subject to the procedure prescribed by paragraph (b) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00120.01
current_num: 12.01
root_num: 113
articleid: 00120
articlecurrent_num: 12
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. If such motions be opposed, Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the member who moves and from the 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: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00130.01
current_num: 13.01
root_num: 28
articleid: 00130
articlecurrent_num: 13
articleroot_num: 24
text:
At the time fixed for the commencement of public business, on days on which orders have precedence of notices of motions, and on all other days after the notices of motions have been disposed of, Mr. Speaker shall direct the clerk to read the orders of the day, without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00140.01
current_num: 14.01
root_num: 29
articleid: 00140
articlecurrent_num: 14
articleroot_num: 25
text:
The orders of the day shall be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the paper; the right being reserved to His Majesty's ministers of arranging government business, whether orders of the day or notices of motions, in such order as they may think fit.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00150.01
current_num: 15.01
root_num: 74
articleid: 00150
articlecurrent_num: 15
articleroot_num: 70
text:
The committees of supply and ways and means shall be appointed by the House at the commencement of every session for the duration thereof, so soon as an address has been agreed to, in answer to His Majesty's speech.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00160.02
current_num: 16.02
root_num: 149
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day so allotted, being a day on which the committee of supply or a report from that committee stands as the first order, no business other than the business of supply shall be taken before ten of the clock, and (except in pursuance of paragraph (2) of standing order no. 9 (Adjournment on definite matter of urgent public importance)) no business of supply shall be taken after ten of the clock, whether a general order exempting business from interruption under standing order no. 1 (Sittings of the House) is in force or not, unless the House otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00160.03
current_num: 16.03
root_num: 210
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 110
text:
For the purposes of this order the business of supply shall consist of proceedings on motions ' That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair '; supplementary or additional estimates for the current financial year; any excess vote; votes on account; main estimates whether for the coming or the current financial year; and the consideration of reports from the committee of public accounts and the select committee on estimates. But such business shall not include any vote of credit or votes for supplementary or additional estimates for war expenditure.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00160.04
current_num: 16.04
root_num: 211
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day not earlier than the seventh allotted day, being a day before the 31st of March, the chairman shall, at half-past nine of the clock, forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration. He shall then forthwith put the question with respect to any vote on account and all such navy, army and air votes for the coming financial year as shall have been put down on at least one previous day for consideration in the committee of supply on an allotted day, that the total amounts of all such votes outstanding be granted for those services. And the chairman shall then in like manner put severally the questions in respect of the civil estimates and estimates for revenue departments and the ministry of defence and of the navy, the army and the air estimates, that the total amountsof all such outstanding estimates supplementary to those of the current financial year as shall have been presented seven clear days previously be granted for the services defined in the supplementary estimates. He shall then in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of any outstanding excess vote (provided that the committee of public accounts shall have reported allowing such vote) be granted for the services defined in any statement of excess.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00160.05
current_num: 16.05
root_num: 212
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On a day not earlier than the eighth allotted day, being a day before the 31st of March, Mr. Speaker shall, at half-past nine of the clock, forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each resolution come to by the committee of supply and not yet agreed to by the House, the question ' That this House doth agree with the committee in the said resolution.'


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.0.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
subarticleid: 00160.06
current_num: 16.06
root_num: 151
articleid: 00160
articlecurrent_num: 16
articleroot_num: 110
text:
On the last day but one of the allotted days the chairman shall, at half-past nine of the clock, forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the vote then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put the question with respect to each class of the civil estimates that the total amount of the votes outstanding in that class be granted for the services defined in the class, and shall in like manner put severally the questions that the total amounts of the votes outstanding in the revenue departments and ministry of defence estimates, and in the navy, the army, and the air estimates be granted for the services defined in those estimates.


