# subarticles

chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
subarticleid: 01500.13
current_num: 150.13
root_num: 2120
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(c) in any case arising from the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme where the Commissioner has proposed remedial action within any procedure approved by the Committee with which the Member concerned has complied or, if the remedy is prospective, undertaken to comply.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
subarticleid: 01520.12
current_num: 152.12
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
9 Housing, Communities and Local Government | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
subarticleid: 0152H.07
current_num: 152H.07
root_num: 1546
articleid: 0152H
articlecurrent_num: 152H
articleroot_num: 285
text:
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Housing, Communities and Local Government, Transport, Welsh Affairs;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-11-27
subarticleid: 0137A.05
current_num: 137A.05
root_num: 1181
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(c) to meet concurrently with any other select committee of this House for the purpose of considering a draft report;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-11-27
subarticleid: 0137A.07
current_num: 137A.07
root_num: 2121
articleid: 0137A
articlecurrent_num: 137A
articleroot_num: 259
text:
(e) to invite members of any other committee to which this order applies to attend any meeting and, at the discretion of the Chair, ask questions of witnesses or otherwise participate in its proceedings; but no member of another committee so invited may move any motion or amendment, vote or count towards the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2019-01-07
subarticleid: 01490.07
current_num: 149.07
root_num: 1733
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, may move motions and amendments to motions or draft reports, and may vote.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2019-11-05
subarticleid: 00110.01
current_num: 11.01
root_num: 31
articleid: 00110
articlecurrent_num: 11
articleroot_num: 17
text:
Subject to Standing Order No. 12 (House not to sit on certain Fridays), the House shall meet on Fridays at half-past nine o'clock, and will first proceed with private business and motions for unopposed returns. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 01490.02
current_num: 149.02
root_num: 925
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
(a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards except in relation to the conduct of individual cases under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 01500.08
current_num: 150.08
root_num: 2119
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(f) to oversee investigations and make findings in cases against Members under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to refer such case to the Independent Panel of Experts where a sanction beyond her powers is contemplated; and to assist the Panel and its sub-panels in its work.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.01
current_num: 150A.01
root_num: 2122
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
There shall be a Panel, to be known as the Independent Expert Panel for the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (the "ICGS"), whose members shall be appointed by the House in accordance with Standing Order No. 150C (Appointment of Independent Expert Panel Members).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.04
current_num: 150A.04
root_num: 2125
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(a) to determine the appropriate sanction in ICGS cases referred to it by the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.05
current_num: 150A.05
root_num: 2126
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(b) to hear appeals against the decisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in respect of ICGS cases involving Members of this House;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.07
current_num: 150A.07
root_num: 2128
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(d) to report from time to time, through the Clerk of the House, on the operation of the ICGS as it relates to Members of this House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.10
current_num: 150A.10
root_num: 2131
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(a) ensuring that the Panel and its sub-panels comply with the provisions of the relevant resolutions and standing orders of this House;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.13
current_num: 150A.13
root_num: 2134
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(d) referring any report from a sub-panel which determines a sanction that can only be imposed by the House to the Clerk of the House who shall lay it upon the Table of the House;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.14
current_num: 150A.14
root_num: 2135
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(e) informing the parties concerned of the outcome of any other case reported to the Chair by a sub-panel and ensuring compliance as appropriate with its recommendations;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.15
current_num: 150A.15
root_num: 2136
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(f) establishing the procedure for an appeal against the findings or determination of a sub-panel in cases referred under (3)(a) above;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.16
current_num: 150A.16
root_num: 2137
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(g) reporting to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards any case of non-compliance under sub-paragraph (e) above by a Member of this House;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.17
current_num: 150A.17
root_num: 2138
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(h) ensuring publication of an Annual Report on the functioning of the Panel and its sub-panels by referring the report to the Clerk of the House for laying on the Table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.20
current_num: 150A.20
root_num: 2141
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(b) to order the attendance of any Member before it and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of the Commissioner, be laid before it;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150A.21
current_num: 150A.21
root_num: 2142
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Panel's order of reference.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150B.01
current_num: 150B.01
root_num: 2143
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
Cases referred to the Independent Expert Panel under Standing Order No. 150A (Independent Expert Panel) shall be considered by a sub-panel appointed under paragraph (5)(b) of that order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150B.04
current_num: 150B.04
root_num: 2146
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
A sub-panel may request the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to conduct further investigations in respect of a case referred to it and may specify the matters to be covered in that investigation.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150B.05
current_num: 150B.05
root_num: 2147
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
In respect of each case referred to it, a sub-panel shall make a report of its findings to the Chair of the Panel.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150B.06
current_num: 150B.06
root_num: 2148
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
Where an appeal is made against a finding or determination of a sanction by a sub-panel, a new sub-panel shall be established to hear that appeal. No member shall be eligible to hear an appeal against the decision of a sub-panel on which they have served.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150C.01
current_num: 150C.01
root_num: 2149
articleid: 0150C
articlecurrent_num: 150C
articleroot_num: 318
text:
Members of the Independent Expert Panel shall be appointed by a resolution of the House on a motion made under the provisions of this order and shall remain as members in accordance with the provisions of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150C.02
current_num: 150C.02
root_num: 2150
articleid: 0150C
articlecurrent_num: 150C
articleroot_num: 318
text:
The period of appointment of each member shall be specified in the resolution of the House for appointment and shall not exceed six years. The appointment of a member is not terminated by any dissolution of Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150C.04
current_num: 150C.04
root_num: 2152
articleid: 0150C
articlecurrent_num: 150C
articleroot_num: 318
text:
No person may be appointed as a member if that person is or has been a Member of this House or a Member of the House of Lords; and any person so appointed shall cease to be a member upon becoming a Member of this House or of the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150C.05
current_num: 150C.05
root_num: 2153
articleid: 0150C
articlecurrent_num: 150C
articleroot_num: 318
text:
No person may be appointed as a member unless that person has been selected on the basis of a fair and open competition.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150C.06
current_num: 150C.06
root_num: 2154
articleid: 0150C
articlecurrent_num: 150C
articleroot_num: 318
text:
A person appointed as a member may resign as a member by giving notice to the House of Commons Commission.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150C.07
current_num: 150C.07
root_num: 2155
articleid: 0150C
articlecurrent_num: 150C
articleroot_num: 318
text:
A person appointed as a member shall be dismissed from that position only following a resolution of the House, after the House of Commons Commission has reported that it is satisfied that the person should cease to be a member; and any such report shall include a statement of the Commission's reasons for its conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150D.01
current_num: 150D.01
root_num: 2161
articleid: 0150D
articlecurrent_num: 150D
articleroot_num: 319
text:
A motion may be moved by a member of the House of Commons Commission to implement a sanction in respect of an individual ICGS case determined by a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
subarticleid: 0150D.02
current_num: 150D.02
root_num: 2162
articleid: 0150D
articlecurrent_num: 150D
articleroot_num: 319
text:
The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on a motion under paragraph (1) of this order forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.01
current_num: 39A.01
root_num: 2165
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
A Member eligible under paragraph (2) may arrange for their vote to be cast by one other Member acting as a proxy (a proxy vote) under a scheme drawn up by the Speaker in accordance with this order and published by him.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.02
current_num: 39A.02
root_num: 2166
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
A Member is eligible for a proxy vote by reason of absence from the precincts of the House for childbirth or care of an infant or newly adopted child, subject to the conditions set out in the scheme published under paragraph (1) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.04
current_num: 39A.04
root_num: 2168
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
(a) in any division, including a deferred division, in the House, in Committee of the whole House, or in any legislative grand committee, save as provided in paragraph (4) below; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.05
current_num: 39A.05
root_num: 2169
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
(b) in a ballot cast in an election under Standing Order No. 1B (Election of Speaker by secret ballot), Standing Order No. 2A (Election of the Deputy Speakers), Standing Order No. 122B (Election of select committee chairs) and Standing Order No. 122D (Election of Chair of Backbench Business Committee).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.09
current_num: 39A.09
root_num: 2173
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
(a) A proxy vote may be cast only if the Speaker has certified that the Member for whom the vote is to be cast is eligible under the terms of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.10
current_num: 39A.10
root_num: 2174
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
(b) The Speaker shall cause that certificate, including the name of the Member nominated as a proxy, to be entered in the Votes and Proceedings no later than the sitting day on which it takes effect.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.11
current_num: 39A.11
root_num: 2175
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
A vote cast by a proxy shall be clearly indicated as such in the division lists published under the authority of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
subarticleid: 0039A.12
current_num: 39A.12
root_num: 2176
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
A Member is also eligible for a proxy vote by reason of absence from the precincts of the House in circumstances where there have been complications relating to childbirth; and the Speaker may make appropriate provision for the exercise of a proxy vote in such circumstances in the scheme drawn up under paragraph (1) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-04-21
subarticleid: 01500.14
current_num: 150.14
root_num: 2178
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(a) instigate informal discussions with a Member to indicate concern about the Member's reported attitude, behaviour or conduct; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-04-21
subarticleid: 01500.15
current_num: 150.15
root_num: 2179
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(b) require a Member to attend a formal meeting at which the Commissioner may indicate concern about or give words of advice on the Member's reported attitude, behaviour or conduct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 00180.01
current_num: 18.01
root_num: 851
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 226
text:
If the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has recommended under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order subject to the affirmative procedure should be approved, or has recommended under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (7) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order should be approved, and a motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to that effect, the question thereon shall-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 00180.04
current_num: 18.04
root_num: 854
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 226
text:
If the committee has recommended under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order subject to the affirmative procedure be not approved, or has recommended under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (7) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order be not approved, no motion to approve the draft order shall be made unless the House has previously resolved to disagree with the committee's report; the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the motion for such a resolution shall be put not later than three hours after their commencement; and the question on any motion thereafter made by a Minister of the Crown that the draft order be approved shall be put forthwith.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 00180.05
current_num: 18.05
root_num: 1464
articleid: 00180
articlecurrent_num: 18
articleroot_num: 226
text:
If the committee has recommended under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order subject to the negative resolution procedure should not be made (and that the recommendation is not intended to operate section 16(4) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006), that recommendation shall be deemed to constitute notice of a motion under sub-paragraph (4)(a) of Standing Order No. 118 (Delegated Legislation Committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 0083P.23
current_num: 83P.23
root_num: 1994
articleid: 0083P
articlecurrent_num: 83P
articleroot_num: 307
text:
Condition C is that the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has made a recommendation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2) of Standing Order No. 18 (Consideration of draft legislative reform orders etc.) in relation to the instrument.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 0083Q.04
current_num: 83Q.04
root_num: 1998
articleid: 0083Q
articlecurrent_num: 83Q
articleroot_num: 308
text:
(c) a motion to disagree with a report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee that contains a recommendation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 18 in relation to a certified instrument;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 01410.01
current_num: 141.01
root_num: 856
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee shall be the select committee to examine and report on-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 01410.30
current_num: 141.30
root_num: 883
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
In undertaking functions under this order, the committee and any sub-committee of it shall have the assistance of Counsel to the Speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 01410.31
current_num: 141.31
root_num: 884
articleid: 01410
articlecurrent_num: 141
articleroot_num: 227
text:
In undertaking functions under this order, the committee and any sub-committee of it shall have power to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend meetings at which witnesses are being examined in relation to matters within paragraphs (1)(i) to (iii) and such Members may, at the discretion of the chair, ask questions of those witnesses; but no Member not being a member of the committee shall otherwise take part in the proceedings of the committee or sub-committee, or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
subarticleid: 01420.34
current_num: 142.34
root_num: 2182
articleid: 01420
articlecurrent_num: 142
articleroot_num: 294
text:
(b) have power to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend meetings at which witnesses are being examined in relation to matters within paragraph (1) and such Members may, at the discretion of the chair, ask questions of those witnesses; but no Member not being a member of the committee shall otherwise take part in the proceedings of the committee or sub-committee, or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-07-13
subarticleid: 0039A.04
current_num: 39A.04
root_num: 2168
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
(a) in any division, including a deferred division, in the House, in Committee of the whole House, save as provided in paragraph (4) below; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-07-20
subarticleid: 0152L.01
current_num: 152L.01
root_num: 2183
articleid: 0152L
articlecurrent_num: 152L
articleroot_num: 321
text:
The Foreign Affairs Committee shall be the Committee charged with the functions in sections 3(1) to 3(3) of the Trade Act 2021.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 01490.03
current_num: 149.03
root_num: 926
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
(b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 01490.04
current_num: 149.04
root_num: 2188
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
(c) in accordance with Standing Order No. 150E (IEP recommendations for sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015) to report to the House recommendations for sanctions to run concurrently with sanctions determined by a sub-panel of the IEP and implemented by the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 0150D.02
current_num: 150D.02
root_num: 2189
articleid: 0150D
articlecurrent_num: 150D
articleroot_num: 319
text:
A motion under paragraph (1) of this Order includes a motion to implement a sanction recommended by the Committee on Standards under Standing Order No. 150E (IEP recommendations for sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015), or a motion to implement both such a sanction and a sanction determined by a sub-panel of the IEP.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 0150E.01
current_num: 150E.01
root_num: 2184
articleid: 0150E
articlecurrent_num: 150E
articleroot_num: 322
text:
The Chair of the IEP shall send to the Chair and Members of the Committee on Standards and to the Clerk of that Committee any report from a sub-panel of the IEP which he has referred to the Clerk of the House under subparagraph (5)(d) of Standing Order No. 150A (Independent Expert Panel) and which contains a determination for a sanction that would, if made by the Committee on Standards, engage the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 0150E.02
current_num: 150E.02
root_num: 2185
articleid: 0150E
articlecurrent_num: 150E
articleroot_num: 322
text:
Where a report has been sent to the Committee on Standards in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Order the Committee of Standards shall make a report to the House in relation to the Member named in that report, setting out a recommendation for a suspension equal to that recommended by the sub-panel to run concurrently with any sanction imposed as a result of the sub-panel's determination.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 0150E.03
current_num: 150E.03
root_num: 2186
articleid: 0150E
articlecurrent_num: 150E
articleroot_num: 322
text:
Reports under paragraph (2) must be made no later than on the third sitting day after the report of the IEP sub-panel is sent to members of the Committee on Standards, save that the day on which the report is sent shall not be counted in calculating this period.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
subarticleid: 0150E.04
current_num: 150E.04
root_num: 2187
articleid: 0150E
articlecurrent_num: 150E
articleroot_num: 322
text:
If the Committee on Standards is unable to meet within three sitting days, the Chair shall, if satisfied that the report from the IEP sub-panel has been sent to all members of the Committee, make the report to the House from the Committee required under paragraph (2).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
subarticleid: 01190.10
current_num: 119.10
root_num: 731
articleid: 01190
articlecurrent_num: 119
articleroot_num: 195
text:
A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
subarticleid: 01450.13
current_num: 145.13
root_num: 1533
articleid: 01450
articlecurrent_num: 145
articleroot_num: 194
text:
(i) those members of the committee who are members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
subarticleid: 01520.14
current_num: 152.14
root_num: 1222
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
11 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
subarticleid: 01520.15
current_num: 152.15
root_num: 523
articleid: 01520
articlecurrent_num: 152
articleroot_num: 190
text:
12 Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | 11


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
subarticleid: 0152H.07
current_num: 152H.07
root_num: 1546
articleid: 0152H
articlecurrent_num: 152H
articleroot_num: 285
text:
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Transport, Welsh Affairs;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-12
subarticleid: 0039A.02
current_num: 39A.02
root_num: 2166
articleid: 0039A
articlecurrent_num: 39A
articleroot_num: 320
text:
A Member is eligible for a proxy vote by reason of (a) childbirth; (b) care of an infant or newly adopted child; and (c) complications relating to childbirth, miscarriage or baby loss, subject to the conditions set out in the scheme published under paragraph (1) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 01490.19
current_num: 149.19
root_num: 2190
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The committee and any sub-committee shall have power to communicate its evidence and any other information in its possession to a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel in respect of a Code of Conduct case that has been appealed to the Panel.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 01490.20
current_num: 149.20
root_num: 2191
articleid: 01490
articlecurrent_num: 149
articleroot_num: 235
text:
The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on a motion to implement a sanction recommended by the Committee (or a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel where it recommends a sanction following an appeal) in respect of a Code of Conduct case forthwith; such a motion may be proceeded with until any hour, though opposed, and no Member shall be eligible to participate in any division on such a motion where it relates to their own conduct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 01500.11
current_num: 150.11
root_num: 1429
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(a) in any case where the Member concerned has agreed that he has failed to register or declare an interest, if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the interest involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 01500.13
current_num: 150.13
root_num: 2192
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
(c) in any case relating to the rules for All-Party Parliamentary Groups if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the breach involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent-


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 01500.14
current_num: 150.14
root_num: 2193
articleid: 01500
articlecurrent_num: 150
articleroot_num: 236
text:
where the Member concerned has, by agreement, taken such action by way of rectification as the Commissioner may have required.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.01
current_num: 150A.01
root_num: 2122
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
There shall be a Panel, to be known as the Independent Expert Panel, whose members shall be appointed by the House in accordance with Standing Order No. 150C (Appointment of Independent Expert Pane Members).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.04
current_num: 150A.04
root_num: 2125
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(a) to determine the appropriate sanction in Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) cases referred to it by the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.07
current_num: 150A.07
root_num: 2128
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(d) to report from time to time, through the Clerk of the House, on the operation of the ICGS as it relates to Members of this House;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.08
current_num: 150A.08
root_num: 2194
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(e) to hear appeals against the decisions of the Committee on Standards under Standing Order No. 149(1)(b) in relation to individual cases under the Code of Conduct;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.09
current_num: 150A.09
root_num: 2195
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(f) to consider any case of non-compliance by a Member of this House with a sanction imposed under sub-paragraph (a) or any other recommendation made in a report by a sub-panel in relation to an ICGS case; and to determine the appropriate sanction.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.12
current_num: 150A.12
root_num: 2131
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(a) ensuring that the Panel and its sub-panels comply with the provisions of the relevant resolutions and standing orders of this House, and with the Procedural Protocol for Code of Conduct cases;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.14
current_num: 150A.14
root_num: 2133
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(c) co-ordinating the work of the Panel with that of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in relation to ICGS cases and the Committee on Standards in relation to Code of Conduct cases;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.15
current_num: 150A.15
root_num: 2134
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(d) referring any report from a sub-panel which determines, or confirms on appeal, a sanction that can only be imposed by the House, and any other report from a sub-panel that the Chair considers should be published, to the Clerk of the House who shall lay it upon the Table of the House;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.16
current_num: 150A.16
root_num: 2135
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(e) informing the parties concerned of the outcome of any other ICGS case reported to the Chair by a sub-panel, and ensuring compliance as appropriate with sanctions determined or recommendations made by a sub-panel;


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150A.18
current_num: 150A.18
root_num: 2138
articleid: 0150A
articlecurrent_num: 150A
articleroot_num: 316
text:
(g) ensuring publication of an Annual Report on the functioning of the Panel and its sub-panels by referring the report to the Clerk of the House for laying on the Table.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150B.04
current_num: 150B.04
root_num: 2146
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
A sub-panel may request the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to conduct further investigations in respect of an ICGS case referred to it and may specify the matters to be covered in that investigation.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150B.05
current_num: 150B.05
root_num: 2196
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
In respect of a Code of Conduct case a sub-panel may request that the Committee on Standards or the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards share specific documents or records in their possession relating to the sub-panel's inquiries.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150B.07
current_num: 150B.07
root_num: 2148
articleid: 0150B
articlecurrent_num: 150B
articleroot_num: 317
text:
Where an appeal is made against a finding or determination of a sanction by a sub-panel in an ICGS case, a new sub-panel shall be established to hear that appeal. No member shall be eligible to hear an appeal against the decision of a sub-panel on which they have served.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150D.05
current_num: 150D.05
root_num: 2197
articleid: 0150D
articlecurrent_num: 150D
articleroot_num: 319
text:
No member shall be eligible to participate in any division on such a motion where it relates to their own conduct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
subarticleid: 0150E.02
current_num: 150E.02
root_num: 2185
articleid: 0150E
articlecurrent_num: 150E
articleroot_num: 322
text:
Where a report has been sent to the Committee on Standards in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Order in relation to an ICGS case, or where a sub-panel has determined a sanction different to that recommended by the Committee on Standards in a Code of Conduct case, the Committee of Standards shall make a report to the House in relation to the Member named in that report, setting out a recommendation for a suspension equal to that recommended by the sub-panel to run concurrently with any sanction imposed as a result of the sub-panel's determination.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-11-30
subarticleid: 0152H.07
current_num: 152H.07
root_num: 1546
articleid: 0152H
articlecurrent_num: 152H
articleroot_num: 285
text:
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environmental Audit, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Science and Technology, Transport, Welsh Affairs;


# articles

chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1811-06-21
articleid: 00030
current_num: 3
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1821-02-22
articleid: 00030
current_num: 3
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1831-06-22
articleid: 00030
current_num: 3
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1849-07-24
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 10
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:[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]3. When such Bill shall be a private Bill for a Local or Personal Act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1880-02-28
articleid: 00250
current_num: 25
root_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. [NEWLINE]If any Member be suspended three times in one Session, under this Order, his suspension on the third occasion shall continue 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: [NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1882-05-09
articleid: 00300
current_num: 30
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1882-11-20
articleid: 00300
current_num: 30
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Provided also, That this Rule shall not apply to the nomination of Select Committees.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1882-11-22
articleid: 00250
current_num: 25
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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: [NEWLINE]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: [NEWLINE]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: [NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1887-03-18
articleid: 0014A
current_num: 14A
root_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:[NEWLINE]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 withheld) 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 withheld), 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:[NEWLINE]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:[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.' "[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
articleid: 00210
current_num: 21
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
articleid: 00250
current_num: 25
root_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:[NEWLINE]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 withheld) 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 withheld), 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:[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
articleid: 00270
current_num: 27
root_num: 95
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1888-03-07
articleid: 00440
current_num: 44
root_num: 10
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: -[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]3. When such Bill shall be a private Bill for a Local or Personal Act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1901-03-07
articleid: 00210
current_num: 21
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-02-11
articleid: 00210
current_num: 21
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-02-11
articleid: 00830
current_num: 83
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-02-13
articleid: 00210
current_num: 21
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]If any Member be suspended under this Order, his suspension on the first occasion [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-02-17
articleid: 00310
current_num: 31
root_num: 42
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-04-29
articleid: 00200
current_num: 20
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]On days when there are two sittings of the House, Questions shall be taken at a quarter-past Two of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-05-02
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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."[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the house otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](a.) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except the evening sittings on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](c.) After Easter government business shall have precedence at the evening sittings of Tuesday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](e.) At the evening sittings at which government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 108
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Unopposed private business shall have precedence of opposed private business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]On days when there are two sittings of the house, questions shall be taken at a quarter past two of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00150
current_num: 15
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single day of two sittings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00180
current_num: 18
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]If any member be suspended under this order, his suspension on the first occasion [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00200
current_num: 20
root_num: 95
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00260
current_num: 26
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 withheld) 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 withheld), 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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00310
current_num: 31
root_num: 42
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00440
current_num: 44
root_num: 10
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: -[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]3. When such bill shall be a private bill for a local or personal act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1902-12-01
articleid: 00810
current_num: 81
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at eleven and five, respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the house otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](a.) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except after a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](c.) After Easter government business shall have precedence during the whole of Tuesday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](e.) After a quarter-past eight when government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 108
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that then under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock.[NEWLINE]Unopposed private business shall have precedence of opposed private business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-04-03
articleid: 00150
current_num: 15
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-12-12
articleid: 00280
current_num: 28
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1906-12-12
articleid: 00290
current_num: 29
root_num: 114
text:
A member may vote in a division although he did not hear the question put.[NEWLINE]A member is not obliged to vote.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
articleid: 00460
current_num: 46
root_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-[NEWLINE](a) Bills for imposing taxes, or Consolidated Fund, or Appropriation Bills; or[NEWLINE](b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1907-04-16
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at eleven and five, respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the house otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](a) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except after a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](c) After Easter government business shall have precedence during the whole of Tuesday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](e) After a quarter-past eight, when government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00150
current_num: 15
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00260
current_num: 26
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 withheld) 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 withheld), 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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00460
current_num: 46
root_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-[NEWLINE](a) Bills for imposing taxes or Consolidated Fund or Appropriation Bills; or[NEWLINE](b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1909-07-28
articleid: 00810
current_num: 81
root_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.[NEWLINE]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, including his powers as deputy speaker.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1915-09-28
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1918-02-13
articleid: 00150
current_num: 15
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at eleven and five, respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1919-02-19
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at eleven and five, respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1919-02-20
articleid: 00260
current_num: 26
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 withheld) 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 withheld), 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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1926-02-23
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the house otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](a) Government business shall have precedence at every sitting except after a quarter-past eight on Tuesday and Wednesday and the sitting on Friday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](c) After Easter government business shall have precedence during the whole of Tuesday;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](e) After a quarter-past eight when government business has not precedence notices of motion shall have precedence of the orders of the day;[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1926-02-23
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1926-03-30
articleid: 00180
current_num: 18
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the house otherwise order, the house shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at eleven and four respectively, has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the house otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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; [NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1927-12-21
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 108
text:
No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that then under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock.[NEWLINE]Unopposed private business shall have precedence of opposed private business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1929-07-24
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the house otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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; [NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]In the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas the following modifications of paragraph (1) of this Standing Order shall have effect:-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](c) Standing Order No. 6 shall come into force and have effect after Easter, instead of after Whitsuntide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00030
current_num: 3
root_num: 111
text:
Unless the House otherwise direct-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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; [NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]In the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas the following modifications of paragraph (1) of this Standing Order shall have effect:-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](c) Standing Order No. 4 shall come into force and have effect after Easter, instead of after Whitsuntide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00060
current_num: 6
root_num: 108
text:
No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00140
current_num: 14
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00170
current_num: 17
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00190
current_num: 19
root_num: 95
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00260
current_num: 26
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 withheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair.[NEWLINE]When a clause is under consideration, a motion may be made (the assent of the chair as aforesaid, not having been withheld), 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.[NEWLINE]Such motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00290
current_num: 29
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00320
current_num: 32
root_num: 42
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00440
current_num: 44
root_num: 10
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: -[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]3. When such bill shall be a private bill for a local or personal act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00460
current_num: 46
root_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-[NEWLINE](a) Bills for imposing taxes or Consolidated Fund or Appropriation Bills; or[NEWLINE](b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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).[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1933-11-14
articleid: 00800
current_num: 80
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
articleid: 00140
current_num: 14
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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).[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1934-11-15
articleid: 00800
current_num: 80
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at a quarter to three of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
articleid: 00060
current_num: 6
root_num: 108
text:
No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
articleid: 00170
current_num: 17
root_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 wilfully 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. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
articleid: 00190
current_num: 19
root_num: 95
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
articleid: 00440
current_num: 44
root_num: 10
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: -[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](3) When such bill shall be a private bill for a local or personal act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1945-03-09
articleid: 00800
current_num: 80
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-03-05
articleid: 00800
current_num: 80
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
text:
Unless the House otherwise order, the House shall meet every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at half-past two of the clock.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](a) 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 '; or[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00060
current_num: 6
root_num: 108
text:
No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_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. [NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00140
current_num: 14
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Fridays shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00160
current_num: 16
root_num: 85
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00250
current_num: 25
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 0033A
current_num: 33A
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 0045A
current_num: 45A
root_num: 134
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[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](2) may, if they think fit, do the like in respect 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[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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).[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 0048A
current_num: 48A
root_num: 136
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-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](ii) no standing committee shall sit between the hours of one of the clock and half-past three of the clock.[NEWLINE]If a standing committee is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without question put at one of the clock: Provided that-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]Government bills referred to a standing committee shall be considered in whatever order the government may decide.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 0048B
current_num: 48B
root_num: 137
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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](i) the number of sittings to be allotted to the consideration of the bill;[NEWLINE](ii) the hours of any additional sittings;[NEWLINE](iii) the allocation of the proceedings to be taken at each sitting; and[NEWLINE](iv) the time at which proceedings, if not previously brought to a conclusion, shall be concluded.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 00490
current_num: 49
root_num: 140
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:-[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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):[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1947-11-04
articleid: 0070A
current_num: 70A
root_num: 130
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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
articleid: 00470
current_num: 47
root_num: 104
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Subject as aforesaid the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]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).[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-04-28
articleid: 0048D
current_num: 48D
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](a) 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); or[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 143
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.[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](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). [NEWLINE]In the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas the following modifications of paragraph (1) of this order shall have effect:-[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 108
text:
No private business which has been opposed shall be set down for or deferred to a Friday sitting[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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:[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00100
current_num: 10
root_num: 140
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:-[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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):[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00160
current_num: 16
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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 amounts of 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.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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 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 ministry of defence estimates, and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.[NEWLINE]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 for the adjournment of the House, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings on that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00170
current_num: 17
root_num: 85
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into a 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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00220
current_num: 22
root_num: 75
text:
Whenever a 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 persistently and wilfully obstructing the business of the House by abusing the rules of the House, or otherwise, then, if the offence has been committed by such member in the House, 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 forthwith put the same question, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, as if the offence had been committed in the House itself. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Not more than one member shall be named at the same time, unless two or more members, present together, have jointly disregarded the authority of the chair.[NEWLINE]If a member, or two or more members acting jointly, who have been suspended under this order from the service of the House, shall refuse to obey the direction of 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 any further question being put be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the session.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Nothing in this order shall be taken to deprive the House of the power of proceeding against any member according to ancient usages.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00280
current_num: 28
root_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.[NEWLINE]Paragraph (1) of this 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00290
current_num: 29
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 withheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair.[NEWLINE]When a clause is under consideration, a motion may be made (the assent of the chair as aforesaid, not having been withheld), 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.[NEWLINE]Such motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.[NEWLINE]This order 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00320
current_num: 32
root_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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the lapse of at least six minutes from this direction he shall direct that the doors giving access to the division lobbies be locked.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00350
current_num: 35
root_num: 145
text:
A member may, after notice, present a bill without previously obtaining leave from the House to bring in the same.[NEWLINE]When a bill is presented either in pursuance of an order of the House or under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this order, the bill shall be read the first time without any question being put, shall be ordered to be read a second time on such day as the member presenting it shall appoint, and shall be ordered to be printed.[NEWLINE]If a member informs the clerks at the table of his intention to take charge of a bill which has been brought from the Lords, the bill shall be deemed to have been read the first time on the day on which the member so informs the clerks, and to have been ordered to be read a second time on such day as he shall appoint, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having been read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on the day so appointed, and shall be ordered to be printed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00380
current_num: 38
root_num: 115
text:
When a public bill (other than a bill for imposing taxes or a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, or a bill for confirming a provisional order) has been read a second time, it shall stand committed to a standing committee unless the House otherwise order.[NEWLINE]A motion to commit a bill to a committee of the whole House or to a select committee, or a motion that it is expedient that a bill be committed to a joint committee of Lords and Commons, may be made by any member and if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time shall not require notice, and, though opposed, may be made and decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith and decided without amendment or debate.[NEWLINE]A motion to commit a bill to a standing committee in respect of some of its provisions and to a committee of the whole House in respect of other provisions may be made by the member in charge of the bill and if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time, shall not require notice, and may, though opposed, be made and decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. 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 a member who opposes the motion shall, without permitting any further debate, put the question thereon.[NEWLINE]If the question on a motion made under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of this order is negatived, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith declare that the bill stands committed to a standing committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00390
current_num: 39
root_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 proposed in committee or, if the bill has been reported, on consideration) 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 were sitting.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00410
current_num: 41
root_num: 134
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. The quorum of the committee shall be seven. The committee[NEWLINE](1) shall, in the case of any bill in respect of which an 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;[NEWLINE](2) may, if they think fit, do the like in respect 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[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00570
current_num: 57
root_num: 104
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be fifteen. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise order.[NEWLINE]Subject to the provisions of standing order no. 59 (Scottish standing committee), the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order His Majesty's ministers may decide.[NEWLINE]Standing orders no. 45 (Debate on clause standing part), no. 70 (Entry on the minutes of proceedings of a select committee), no. 71 (Entry on the minutes of evidence of a select committee), no. 72 (Minutes of proceedings to be brought up with report of a select committee), and no. 74 (Quorum of a select committee), paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of standing order no. 29 (Closure of debate) and standing order no. 30 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees with the substitution in standing order no. 29 (Closure of debate) of the word 'chairman' for the word 'chair,' and, in standing order no. 30 (Majority for closure), of twenty for one hundred 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 ways and means has under standing orders no. 20 (Irrelevance or repetition), no. 26 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), no. 45 (Debate on clause standing part) and no. 31 (Selection of amendments).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the votes the minutes of their proceedings and clauses of bills as amended by them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00600
current_num: 60
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish standing committee', and if, on the question thereupon being put, not less than ten members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]When the order 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 Scottish standing committee ': 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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish standing committee, and shall proceed through its remaining stages according to the ordinary practice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00620
current_num: 62
root_num: 147
text:
The chairman of each standing committee shall be appointed by Mr. Speaker from a chairmen's panel consisting of the chairman of ways and means, the deputy chairman, and the members appointed by Mr. Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (4) of standing order no. 96 (Deputy Speaker and chairmen) to act as temporary chairmen of committees of the whole House.[NEWLINE]Mr. Speaker may change the chairman so appointed from time to time.[NEWLINE]The chairmen's panel, of whom three shall be a quorum, shall have power to consider matters of procedure relating to standing committees and to report their opinion thereupon to the House from time to time.[NEWLINE]Any member of a standing committee may, at the request of the chairman of the committee, act as chairman for not more than a quarter of an hour: Provided that paragraph (5) of standing order no. 57 (Standing committees (constitution and powers)) shall not apply to proceedings in a standing committee while such member is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00630
current_num: 63
root_num: 136
text:
A standing committee to whom a bill or other business has been committed shall meet to consider such business on the day and at the hour named by the member appointed chairman of the committee in respect of that business. If the consideration of the business is not completed at that sitting the committee shall meet further to consider the business on such days of the week (being days on which the House sits) as may be appointed by the committee at half-past ten of the clock, unless the committee otherwise determine:[NEWLINE]Provided that no standing committee shall sit between the hours of one of the clock and half-past three of the clock in the afternoon, except as hereinafter provided.[NEWLINE]If a standing committee is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without putting any question at one of the clock: Provided that-[NEWLINE](i) if, in the opinion of the chairman, the proceedings on a bill or other business could be brought to a final conclusion by a short extension of the sitting, he may defer adjourning the committee until a quarter past one of the clock;[NEWLINE](ii) if proceedings under standing order no. 29 (Closure of debate) be in progress at the time when the chairman is required to adjourn the committee under this paragraph, he shall not adjourn the committee until the question for closing the debate, the question or questions consequent thereon and on any further motion as provided in that standing order, have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00640
current_num: 64
root_num: 137
text:
An allocation of time order relating, or so much thereof as relates, to the committee stage of a bill committed or to be committed to a standing committee, shall, as soon as the bill has been allotted 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.[NEWLINE]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 relating to any bill allocated to that committee, and to report to that committee upon-[NEWLINE](i) the number of sittings to be allotted to the consideration of the bill;[NEWLINE](ii) the allocation of the proceedings to be taken at each sitting; and[NEWLINE](iii) the time at which proceedings, if not previously brought to a conclusion, shall be concluded.[NEWLINE]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 deemed to have been discharged from the sub-committee as soon as 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.[NEWLINE]All resolutions of a business sub-committee shall be reported to the standing committee at the commencement of the proceedings at the next sitting of that committee and shall be printed and circulated with the minutes of the proceedings of the committee.[NEWLINE]Whenever a business sub-committee has reported to the standing committee the member in charge of the bill may forthwith move ' That this committee doth agree with the business sub-committee in the said resolution (or resolutions).' Such a motion shall not require notice and the question thereon shall be decided without amendment or debate.[NEWLINE]If the question is resolved in the affirmative, the resolution (or resolutions) shall operate as though included in the allocation of time order made by the House, but if passed in the negative the resolution (or resolutions) shall stand recommitted to the business sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00670
current_num: 67
root_num: 21
text:
Any member intending to propose that certain members be members of a select committee shall give notice of the names of the members whom he intends to propose to be members of the committee, and shall endeavour to ascertain previously whether each such member will give his attendance on the committee.[NEWLINE]The provisions of paragraph (1) of this order shall apply in the case of members proposed to be added or substituted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00860
current_num: 86
root_num: 130
text:
When a minister of the crown in committee of ways and means has moved the first of several motions upon which a bill is to be founded 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.[NEWLINE]On consideration of a 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 00960
current_num: 96
root_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.[NEWLINE]At the commencement of every parliament, or from time to time, as necessity may arise, the House may appoint a deputy chairman of ways and means, who shall be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the chairman of ways and means, including his powers as Deputy Speaker.[NEWLINE]The chairman of ways and means or the deputy chairman shall take the chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House.[NEWLINE]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. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 01050
current_num: 105
root_num: 99
text:
If at any sitting of the House, or in a committee of the whole House, any member shall take notice that strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, ' That strangers do 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. [NEWLINE]An order that strangers do withdraw shall not apply to members of the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-28
articleid: 01120
current_num: 112
root_num: 129
text:
Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to Mr. Speaker by His Majesty's ministers that the public interest requires that the House should meet at any earlier time during the adjournment, Mr. Speaker, if he is satisfied that the public interest does so require, may give notice that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]In the event of Mr. Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the chairman of ways and means, or the deputy chairman, shall act in his stead for the purposes of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1948-07-29
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_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. [NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](a) 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); or[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Not more than one motion under paragraph (6) 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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00040
current_num: 4
root_num: 143
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.[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](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). [NEWLINE]In the case of a session beginning between Easter and Christmas the following modifications of paragraph (1) of this order shall have effect:-[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 108
text:
No private business which has been opposed shall be set down for or deferred to a Friday sitting[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]No opposed private business other than that under consideration shall be taken after nine of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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:[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00100
current_num: 10
root_num: 140
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:-[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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):[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00160
current_num: 16
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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 amounts of 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.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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 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 Ministry of Defence estimates, and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.[NEWLINE]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 for the adjournment of the House, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings on that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00170
current_num: 17
root_num: 85
text:
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into a 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.[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00220
current_num: 22
root_num: 75
text:
Whenever a 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 persistently and wilfully obstructing the business of the House by abusing the rules of the House, or otherwise, then, if the offence has been committed by such Member in the House, 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 forthwith put the same question, no amendment, adjournment, or debate being allowed, as if the offence had been committed in the House itself. [NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Not more than one Member shall be named at the same time, unless two or more Members, present together, have jointly disregarded the authority of the chair.[NEWLINE]If a Member, or two or more Members acting jointly, who have been suspended under this order from the service of the House, shall refuse to obey the direction of 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 any further question being put be suspended from the service of the House during the remainder of the session.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Nothing in this order shall be taken to deprive the House of the power of proceeding against any Member according to ancient usages.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00280
current_num: 28
root_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.[NEWLINE]Paragraph (1) of this 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00290
current_num: 29
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 withheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair.[NEWLINE]When a clause is under consideration, a motion may be made (the assent of the chair as aforesaid, not having been withheld), 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.[NEWLINE]Such motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without amendment or debate.[NEWLINE]This order 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00330
current_num: 33
root_num: 114
text:
A Member may vote in a division although he did not hear the question put.[NEWLINE]A Member is not obliged to vote.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00350
current_num: 35
root_num: 145
text:
A Member may, after notice, present a bill without previously obtaining leave from the House to bring in the same.[NEWLINE]When a bill is presented either in pursuance of an order of the House or under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this order, the bill shall be read the first time without any question being put, shall be ordered to be read a second time on such day as the Member presenting it shall appoint, and shall be ordered to be printed.[NEWLINE]If a Member informs the Clerks at the Table of his intention to take charge of a bill which has been brought from the Lords, the bill shall be deemed to have been read the first time on the day on which the Member so informs the Clerks, and to have been ordered to be read a second time on such day as he shall appoint, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having been read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on the day so appointed, and shall be ordered to be printed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00410
current_num: 41
root_num: 134
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. The quorum of the committee shall be seven. The committee-[NEWLINE](1) shall, in the case of any bill in respect of which an 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;[NEWLINE](2) may, if they think fit, do the like in respect 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[NEWLINE](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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00550
current_num: 55
root_num: 10
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: -[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE](3) When such bill shall be a private bill for a local or personal act.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00570
current_num: 57
root_num: 104
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be fifteen. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise order.[NEWLINE]Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 59 (Scottish Standing Committee), the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order His Majesty's Ministers may decide.[NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part), No. 70 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), No. 71 (Entry on minutes of evidence of select committee), No. 72 (Minutes of proceedings to be brought up with report of select committee), and No. 74 (Quorum of select committee), paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) and Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees with the substitution in Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) of the word 'chairman' for the word 'chair,' and, in Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure), of twenty for one hundred 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 Ways and Means has under Standing Orders No. 20 (Irrelevance or repetition), No. 26 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part) and No. 31 (Selection of amendments).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the Votes the minutes of their proceedings and clauses of bills as amended by them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00600
current_num: 60
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Standing Committee', and if, on the question thereupon being put, not less than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]When the order 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 Scottish Standing Committee ': 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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Standing Committee, and shall proceed through its remaining stages according to the ordinary practice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00620
current_num: 62
root_num: 147
text:
The chairman of each standing committee shall be appointed by Mr. Speaker from a Chairmen's Panel consisting of the Chairman of Ways and Means, the Deputy Chairman, and the Members appointed by Mr. Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 96 (Deputy Speaker and chairmen) to act as temporary chairmen of committees of the whole House.[NEWLINE]Mr. Speaker may change the chairman so appointed from time to time.[NEWLINE]The Chairmen's Panel, of whom three shall be a quorum, shall have power to consider matters of procedure relating to standing committees and to report their opinion thereupon to the House from time to time.[NEWLINE]Any member of a standing committee may, at the request of the chairman of the committee, act as chairman for not more than a quarter of an hour: Provided that paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 57 (Standing committees (constitution and powers)) shall not apply to proceedings in a standing committee while such member is in the chair.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00630
current_num: 63
root_num: 136
text:
A standing committee to whom a bill or other business has been committed shall meet to consider such business on the day and at the hour named by the Member appointed chairman of the committee in respect of that business. If the consideration of the business is not completed at that sitting the committee shall meet further to consider the business on such days of the week (being days on which the House sits) as may be appointed by the committee at half-past ten of the clock, unless the committee otherwise determine:[NEWLINE]Provided that no standing committee shall sit between the hours of one of the clock and half-past three of the clock in the afternoon, except as hereinafter provided.[NEWLINE]If a standing committee is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without putting any question at one of the clock: Provided that-[NEWLINE](i) if, in the opinion of the chairman, the proceedings on a bill or other business could be brought to a final conclusion by a short extension of the sitting, he may defer adjourning the committee until a quarter past one of the clock;[NEWLINE](ii) if proceedings under Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) be in progress at the time when the chairman is required to adjourn the committee under this paragraph, he shall not adjourn the committee until the question for closing the debate, the question or questions consequent thereon and on any further motion as provided in that standing order, have been decided.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00640
current_num: 64
root_num: 137
text:
An allocation of time order relating, or so much thereof as relates, to the committee stage of a bill committed or to be committed to a standing committee, shall, as soon as the bill has been allotted 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.[NEWLINE]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 relating to any bill allocated to that committee, and to report to that committee upon-[NEWLINE](i) the number of sittings to be allotted to the consideration of the bill;[NEWLINE](ii) the allocation of the proceedings to be taken at each sitting; and[NEWLINE](iii) the time at which proceedings, if not previously brought to a conclusion, shall be concluded.[NEWLINE]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 deemed to have been discharged from the sub-committee as soon as 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.[NEWLINE]All resolutions of a business sub-committee shall be reported to the standing committee at the commencement of the proceedings at the next sitting of that committee and shall be printed and circulated with the minutes of the proceedings of the committee.[NEWLINE]Whenever a business sub-committee has reported to the standing committee the Member in charge of the bill may forthwith move ' That this committee doth agree with the business sub-committee in the said resolution (or resolutions).' Such a motion shall not require notice and the question thereon shall be decided without amendment or debate.[NEWLINE]If the question is resolved in the affirmative, the resolution (or resolutions) shall operate as though included in the allocation of time order made by the House, but if passed in the negative the resolution (or resolutions) shall stand recommitted to the business sub-committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00670
current_num: 67
root_num: 21
text:
Any Member intending to propose that certain Members be members of a select committee shall give notice of the names of the Members whom he intends to propose to be members of the committee, and shall endeavour to ascertain previously whether each such Member will give his attendance on the committee.[NEWLINE]The provisions of paragraph (1) of this order shall apply in the case of Members proposed to be added or substituted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00860
current_num: 86
root_num: 130
text:
When a Minister of the Crown in Committee of Ways and Means has moved the first of several motions upon which a bill is to be founded 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.[NEWLINE]On consideration of a 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 00960
current_num: 96
root_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.[NEWLINE]At the commencement of every Parliament, or from time to time, as necessity may arise, the House may appoint a Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the Chairman of Ways and Means, including his powers as Deputy Speaker.[NEWLINE]The Chairman of Ways and Means or the Deputy Chairman shall take the chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House.[NEWLINE]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. 


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 01050
current_num: 105
root_num: 99
text:
If at any sitting of the House, or in a committee of the whole House, any Member shall take notice that strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, ' That strangers do 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. [NEWLINE]An order that strangers do withdraw shall not apply to members of the House of Lords.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1951-12-06
articleid: 01120
current_num: 112
root_num: 129
text:
Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to Mr. Speaker by His Majesty's Ministers that the public interest requires that the House should meet at any earlier time during the adjournment, Mr. Speaker, if he is satisfied that the public interest does so require, may give notice that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]In the event of Mr. Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Chairman of Ways and Means, or the Deputy Chairman, shall act in his stead for the purposes of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1954-11-03
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_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. [NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1954-11-03
articleid: 00570
current_num: 57
root_num: 104
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be fifteen. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise order.[NEWLINE]Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 59 (Scottish Standing Committee), the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order Her Majesty's Ministers may decide.[NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part), No. 70 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), No. 71 (Entry on minutes of evidence of select committee), No. 72 (Minutes of proceedings to be brought up with report of select committee), and No. 74 (Quorum of select committee), paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) and Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees with the substitution in Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) of the word 'chairman' for the word 'chair,' and, in Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure), of twenty for one hundred 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 Ways and Means has under Standing Orders No. 20 (Irrelevance or repetition), No. 26 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part) and No. 31 (Selection of amendments).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the Votes the minutes of their proceedings and clauses of bills as amended by them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1954-11-03
articleid: 01120
current_num: 112
root_num: 129
text:
Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to Mr. Speaker by Her Majesty's Ministers that the public interest requires that the House should meet at any earlier time during the adjournment, Mr. Speaker, if he is satisfied that the public interest does so require, may give notice that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]In the event of Mr. Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Chairman of Ways and Means, or the Deputy Chairman, shall act in his stead for the purposes of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1957-11-06
articleid: 0095A
current_num: 95A
root_num: 153
text:
Except in such cases as the House may otherwise order:-[NEWLINE]No proceedings on a motion to which this order applies shall be entered upon at or after half-past eleven o'clock.[NEWLINE]If such a motion is under consideration at half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put the question thereupon to the House, provided that, if he shall be of opinion that-[NEWLINE](a) owing to the lateness of the hour at which consideration of the motion was entered upon, or[NEWLINE](b) because of the importance of the subject matter of the motion,[NEWLINE]the time for debate has not been adequate, he shall interrupt the business and the debate shall stand adjourned till the next sitting (other than a Friday).[NEWLINE]A debate which has been adjourned under paragraph (2) of this order shall not be resumed later than eleven o'clock, but shall stand further adjourned till the next sitting (other than a Friday), and the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall apply to any debate which has been further adjourned under this paragraph as if the further adjournment were an adjournment under paragraph (2) of the order.[NEWLINE]The motions to which this order applies are-[NEWLINE](a) any motion for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that a statutory instrument be annulled, and any motion that a draft of an order in Council be not submitted to Her Majesty in Council, or that a statutory instrument be not made,[NEWLINE](b) any motion that, or for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that, any other document which may be subject to proceedings in the House in pursuance of a statute be annulled, or cease to be in force, or be not made.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1957-12-18
articleid: 00570
current_num: 57
root_num: 104
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the committee. The quorum of a standing committee of forty-five or more members shall be fifteen and of a standing committee of less than forty-five members shall be twelve. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise order.[NEWLINE]Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 59 (Scottish Standing Committee), the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order Her Majesty's Ministers may decide.[NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part), No. 70 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), No. 71 (Entry on minutes of evidence of select committee), No. 72 (Minutes of proceedings to be brought up with report of select committee), and No. 74 (Quorum of select committee), paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) and Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees with the substitution in Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) of the word 'chairman' for the word 'chair,' and, in Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure), of the number prescribed by paragraph (1) of this order as the quorum for one hundred 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 Ways and Means has under Standing Orders No. 20 (Irrelevance or repetition), No. 26 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part) and No. 31 (Selection of amendments).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the Votes the minutes of their proceedings and clauses of bills as amended by them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1957-12-18
articleid: 00590
current_num: 59
root_num: 149
text:
One of the standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all public bills or other business relating exclusively to Scotland and committed or referred to a standing committee.[NEWLINE]For the consideration of[NEWLINE](a) bills referred to them for consideration in relation to their principle under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 60 (Public bills relating exclusively to Scotland);[NEWLINE](b) Scottish estimates referred to them under Standing Order No. 61 (Special procedure for Scottish estimates); and[NEWLINE](c) specified matters referred to them under Standing Order No. 61A (Matters relating exclusively to Scotland)[NEWLINE]the Scottish Standing Committee shall be known as the Scottish Grand 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 the members so nominated by them, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.[NEWLINE]For the consideration of bills certified by Mr. Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee or bills committed to the Scottish Standing Committee, the Committee shall consist of thirty members representing Scottish constituencies, who shall be nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of each such bill and to whom the Committee of Selection shall have power to add not more than twenty members. In nominating members the Committee of Selection shall have regard to their qualifications and the composition of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1957-12-18
articleid: 00600
current_num: 60
root_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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Grand Committee', and if, on the question thereupon being put, not less than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.[NEWLINE]A bill so referred to the Grand 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.[NEWLINE]When the order 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 Scottish Standing Committee ': 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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Standing Committee, and shall proceed through its remaining stages according to the ordinary practice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1957-12-18
articleid: 0061A
current_num: 61A
root_num: 154
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 a specified matter or matters relating exclusively to Scotland be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee for their consideration, and if, on the question thereupon being put, not less than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.[NEWLINE]If such a motion be agreed to, the Scottish Grand Committee shall consider the matter or matters to them referred on not more than two days in a Session, and shall report only that they have considered the said matter or matters.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-02-08
articleid: 00120
current_num: 12
root_num: 92
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:[NEWLINE]Provided that no notice shall be given, except by a Minister of the Crown, for a day earlier than the seventh day after it has been received at the Table or for a day on which a notice of motion under this order already stands on the paper.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-02-08
articleid: 00160
current_num: 16
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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; motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure]; 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.[NEWLINE]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 amounts of 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.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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. The chairman shall then in like manner put severally the questions on motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure] (provided that the Public Accounts Committee have reported that they see no reason why Parliament should not sanction the virement temporarily authorised by the Treasury in each case) that sanction be given to the application of the said sums.[NEWLINE]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 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 Ministry of Defence estimates, and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.[NEWLINE]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 for the adjournment of the House, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings on that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-02-08
articleid: 00570
current_num: 57
root_num: 104
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be one third of the number of its members excluding the chairman, and in calculating the quorum fractions shall be counted as one. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise order.[NEWLINE]Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 59 (Scottish Standing Committee), the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order Her Majesty's Ministers may decide.[NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part), No. 70 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), No. 71 (Entry on minutes of evidence of select committee), No. 72 (Minutes of proceedings to be brought up with report of select committee), and No. 74 (Quorum of select committee), paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) and Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees with the substitution in Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) of the word 'chairman' for the word 'chair,' and, in Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure), of the number prescribed by paragraph (1) of this order as the quorum for one hundred 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 Ways and Means has under Standing Orders No. 20 (Irrelevance or repetition), No. 26 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part) and No. 31 (Selection of amendments).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the Votes the minutes of their proceedings and clauses of bills as amended by them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-02-08
articleid: 00580
current_num: 58
root_num: 98
text:
Each of the said standing committees with the exception of the Scottish Standing Committee shall consist of a chairman to be appointed by Mr. Speaker pursuant to Standing Order No. 62 (Chairmen of standing committees) and not less than twenty nor more than fifty members to be nominated by the Committee of Selection to serve on that Standing Committee during the consideration of each bill allocated to it.[NEWLINE]In nominating such members the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of those members nominated and to the composition of the House, and shall have power to discharge members from time to time and appoint others in substitution for those discharged.[NEWLINE]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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-05-30
articleid: 00570
current_num: 57
root_num: 104
text:
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed to a standing committee shall stand referred to the committee. The quorum of a standing committee shall be seventeen or one third of the number of its members excluding the chairman, whichever is the less; and in calculating the quorum fractions shall be counted as one. Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise order.[NEWLINE]Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 59 (Scottish Standing Committee), the bills committed to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker.[NEWLINE]In all but one of the standing committees government bills shall have precedence.[NEWLINE]Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order Her Majesty's Ministers may decide.[NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part), No. 70 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee), No. 71 (Entry on minutes of evidence of select committee), No. 72 (Minutes of proceedings to be brought up with report of select committee), and No. 74 (Quorum of select committee), paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) and Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees with the substitution in Standing Order No. 29 (Closure of debate) of the word 'chairman' for the word 'chair,' and, in Standing Order No. 30 (Majority for closure), of the number prescribed by paragraph (1) of this order as the quorum for one hundred 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 Ways and Means has under Standing Orders No. 20 (Irrelevance or repetition), No. 26 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), No. 45 (Debate on clause standing part) and No. 31 (Selection of amendments).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate with the Votes the minutes of their proceedings and clauses of bills as amended by them.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-10-25
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]At ten of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration, except business exempted under Standing Order No. 1A (Exemptions from Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House)), 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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at ten of the clock has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken, except proceedings exempted under Standing Order No. 1A (Exemptions from Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House)).[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-10-25
articleid: 0001A
current_num: 1A
root_num: 157
text:
The following business shall be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) and may be entered upon at any hour though opposed, shall not, save as provided in paragraph (2) of this order, be interrupted at ten of the clock, 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:-[NEWLINE](a) proceedings on a bill originating in Committee of Ways and Means;[NEWLINE](b) proceedings on the reports of the Committee of Ways and Means; [NEWLINE](c) proceedings on the report of a committee authorising the expenditure of public money except a report from the Committee of Supply;[NEWLINE](d) proceedings in pursuance of any Act of Parliament save in so far as Standing Order No. 95A (Statutory Instruments, etc. (procedure)) otherwise provides or in pursuance of any Standing Order of this House;[NEWLINE](e) proceedings of a committee on a motion authorising expenditure in connection with a bill: Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings of such a committee shall be put at a quarter to eleven of the clock or at the expiration of three quarters of an hour after the House shall have resolved itself into that committee whichever is the later.[NEWLINE]If a notice of motion in the name of a Minister of the Crown stands upon the order paper at the commencement of public business to the effect either:-[NEWLINE](a) 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); or[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE]it shall stand over and may not be moved until after the interruption of business and shall then be proceeded with in accordance with the following paragraphs of this order.[NEWLINE]If the business interrupted is included in the business specified in the motion or is exempted under paragraph (1) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall, immediately after the interruption of business, or, if the House has been in Committee, before any day is named for the House again to resolve itself into that Committee, call upon the Minister to move his motion and the question thereon shall be put forthwith without amendment or debate and after that question has been decided, the consideration of the business interrupted shall be resumed if such business is exempted under paragraph (1) of this order or if the question be resolved in the affirmative.[NEWLINE]If the business interrupted is not included in the business specified in the motion or is not exempted under paragraph (1) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall call upon the Minister to move his motion at the conclusion of any proceedings arising on the interruption of business under the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) but before the resumption of any proceedings postponed under Standing Orders No. 7 (Time for taking private business) or No. 9 (Adjournment on definite matter of urgent public importance).[NEWLINE]If a motion made under either of the two preceding paragraphs be agreed to, the business so specified shall be proceeded with as if exempted under paragraph (1) of this order, save that business exempted for a specified time after ten of the clock may not if opposed be entered upon or resumed after the expiration of that time and the proceedings thereon if not previously concluded shall be interrupted at the end of that period.[NEWLINE]Not more than one motion under paragraph (2) of this order may be made at any one sitting and after any business exempted under this order is disposed of after ten of the clock, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) applicable to business taken after ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-10-25
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 158
text:
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the time for private business shall end not later than a quarter to three of the clock and business entered upon and not disposed of at that hour shall be deferred to such time as the Chairman of Ways and Means may appoint. Business not reached shall stand over to the next sitting, or in the case of business which has been opposed until the next sitting other than a Friday.[NEWLINE]During the time of private business, opposed business shall not be proceeded with but shall be deferred to such time, other than a Friday, as the Chairman of Ways and Means may appoint. Opposed business shall include any proceedings on a private bill or a confirming bill which have been so deferred, so long as a notice of an amendment stands upon the notice paper in the form of a notice of motion on second reading, consideration or third reading of such bill: Provided that no such notice of motion shall stand on the paper for more than seven days unless renewed.[NEWLINE]No opposed business shall be taken on a Friday.[NEWLINE]Business deferred under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this order shall be considered at the time of private business on the day appointed unless the Chairman of Ways and Means directs that such business shall be set down for seven of the clock on any specified Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, and business so set down (including any motion contingent directly or otherwise upon any item of such business) shall be taken in such order as the Chairman of Ways and Means may determine: Provided that business so set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be distributed as nearly as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings.[NEWLINE]On any day specified under paragraph (4) of this order at seven of the clock or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 (Adjournment on definite matter of urgent public importance) has been disposed of, the business set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be entered upon and may be proceeded with subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) although opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-10-25
articleid: 00160
current_num: 16
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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, made respectively after notice either at the commencement of public business to be decided without amendment or debate or after the interruption of business in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No. 1A (Exemptions from Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House)).[NEWLINE]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; motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure]; 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.[NEWLINE]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 amounts of 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.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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. The chairman shall then in like manner put severally the questions on motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure] (provided that the Public Accounts Committee have reported that they see no reason why Parliament should not sanction the virement temporarily authorised by the Treasury in each case) that sanction be given to the application of the said sums.[NEWLINE]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 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 Ministry of Defence estimates, and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.[NEWLINE]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 for the adjournment of the House, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings on that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-10-25
articleid: 00590
current_num: 59
root_num: 149
text:
One of the standing committees shall be appointed for the consideration of all public bills certified under Standing Order No. 60 (Public bills relating exclusively to Scotland) or other business relating exclusively to Scotland and committed or referred to a standing committee.[NEWLINE]For the consideration of[NEWLINE](a) bills referred to them for consideration in relation to their principle under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 60 (Public bills relating exclusively to Scotland);[NEWLINE](b) Scottish estimates referred to them under Standing Order No. 61 (Special procedure for Scottish estimates); and[NEWLINE](c) specified matters referred to them under Standing Order No. 61A (Matters relating exclusively to Scotland)[NEWLINE]the Scottish Standing Committee shall be known as the Scottish Grand 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 the members so nominated by them, and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged.[NEWLINE]For the consideration of bills certified by Mr. Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee or bills committed to the Scottish Standing Committee, the Committee shall consist of thirty members representing Scottish constituencies, who shall be nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of each such bill and to whom the Committee of Selection shall have power to add not more than twenty members. In nominating members the Committee of Selection shall have regard to their qualifications and the composition of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-10-25
articleid: 00600
current_num: 60
root_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: Provided that a certificate shall not be withheld by reason only that a provision of that bill amends the First Schedule to the House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1957.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Grand Committee', and if, on the question thereupon being put, not less than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.[NEWLINE]A bill so referred to the Grand 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.[NEWLINE]When the order 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 Scottish Standing Committee ': 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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Standing Committee, and shall proceed through its remaining stages according to the ordinary practice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-11-02
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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:[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-11-02
articleid: 00160
current_num: 16
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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, made respectively after notice either at the commencement of public business to be decided without amendment or debate or after the interruption of business in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No. 1A (Exemptions from Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House)).[NEWLINE]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; motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure]; and the consideration of reports from the Committee of Public Accounts and the Estimates Committee. But such business shall not include any vote of credit or votes for supplementary or additional estimates for war expenditure.[NEWLINE]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 amounts of 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.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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. The chairman shall then in like manner put severally the questions on motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure] (provided that the Public Accounts Committee have reported that they see no reason why Parliament should not sanction the virement temporarily authorised by the Treasury in each case) that sanction be given to the application of the said sums.[NEWLINE]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 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 Ministry of Defence estimates, and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.[NEWLINE]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 for the adjournment of the House, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings on that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-11-02
articleid: 00600
current_num: 60
root_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: Provided that a certificate shall not be withheld by reason only that a provision of that bill amends the First Schedule to the House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1957.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Grand Committee', and if, on the question thereupon being put, not less than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it.[NEWLINE]A bill so referred to the Grand 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.[NEWLINE]When the order 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 Scottish Standing Committee ': 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.[NEWLINE]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 Scottish Standing Committee, and shall proceed through its remaining stages according to the ordinary practice of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1960-11-02
articleid: 0090A
current_num: 90A
root_num: 159
text:
There shall be a select committee, to be designated the Estimates Committee, to examine such of the estimates presented to this House as may seem fit to the committee and report how, if at all, the policy implied in those estimates may be carried out more economically and, if the committee think fit, to consider the principal variations between the estimates and those relating to the previous financial year and the form in which the estimates are presented to the House, to consist of forty-three members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, and of whom seven shall be a quorum:[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers, and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time:[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee; three shall be the quorum of every such sub-committee:[NEWLINE]Every such sub-committee shall have power to send for persons, papers, and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to adjourn from place to place:[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before sub-committees and reported by them to the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00010
current_num: 1
root_num: 88
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.[NEWLINE]At ten of the clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall, save as otherwise provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business), be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and report progress and ask leave to sit again; and if a motion has been made for the adjournment of the House, or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such motion shall lapse.[NEWLINE]On the interruption of business the closure may be moved; and if moved, or if proceedings under Standing Order No. 31 (Closure of debate) be then in progress, Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall not leave the chair until the questions consequent thereon and any further question, as provided in Standing Order No. 31 (Closure of debate), have been decided.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]After the business under consideration at ten of the clock has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken, save as provided in Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business).[NEWLINE]The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution or by Mr. Speaker in pursuance of Standing Order No. 26 (Power of Mr. Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting): Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been made at or after ten 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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00020
current_num: 2
root_num: 157
text:
The following business may be entered upon at any hour though opposed, shall not, save for the purpose of moving a motion pursuant to paragraph (2) of this order, be interrupted at ten of the clock, 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:-[NEWLINE](a) proceedings on a bill originating in Committee of Ways and Means;[NEWLINE](b) proceedings on the reports of the Committee of Ways and Means; [NEWLINE](c) proceedings on the report of a committee authorising the expenditure of public money except a report from the Committee of Supply;[NEWLINE](d) proceedings in pursuance of any Act of Parliament save in so far as Standing Order No. 100 (Statutory Instruments, &c. (procedure)) otherwise provides or in pursuance of any Standing Order of this House which provides that proceedings though opposed may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business;[NEWLINE](e) proceedings of a committee on a motion authorising expenditure in connection with a bill: Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings of such a committee shall be put at a quarter to eleven of the clock or at the expiration of three quarters of an hour after the House shall have resolved itself into that committee whichever is the later.[NEWLINE]If a notice of motion in the name of a Minister of the Crown stands upon the order paper at the commencement of public business to the effect either:-[NEWLINE](a) that any specified business may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's sitting at any hour, though opposed; or[NEWLINE](b) that any specified business may be entered upon and proceeded with at this day's sitting at any hour during a specified period after ten of the clock, though opposed;[NEWLINE]it shall stand over and may not be moved until after the interruption of business and shall then be proceeded with, though opposed, in accordance with the following paragraphs of this order.[NEWLINE]If the business interrupted is included in the business specified in the motion or in paragraph (1) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall, immediately after the interruption of business, or, if the House has been in Committee, before any day is named for the House again to resolve itself into that Committee, call upon the Minister to move his motion and the question thereon shall be put forthwith without amendment or debate and after that question has been decided, the consideration of the business interrupted shall be resumed if such business is included in the business specified in paragraph (1) of this order or if the question be resolved in the affirmative.[NEWLINE]If the business interrupted is not included in the business specified in the motion or in paragraph (1) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall call upon the Minister to move his motion at the conclusion of any proceedings arising on the interruption of business under the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) but before the resumption of any proceedings postponed under Standing Orders No. 7 (Time for taking private business) or No. 9 (Adjournment on definite matter of urgent public importance).[NEWLINE]If a motion made under either of the two preceding paragraphs be agreed to, the business so specified shall be proceeded with as if it were included in the business specified in paragraph (1) of this order, save that [NEWLINE](a) business which may be proceeded with only up till a specified hour may not if opposed be entered upon or resumed after that hour and the proceedings thereon if not previously concluded shall be interrupted at that hour.[NEWLINE](b) when proceedings on such business have been postponed under the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Adjournment on definite matter of urgent public importance), there shall be added to any specified period of time during which such business may be proceeded with after ten of the clock, a further period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings upon the motion under the said Standing Order No. 9.[NEWLINE]Not more than one motion under paragraph (2) of this order may be made at any one sitting and after any business proceeding under the provisions of this order is disposed of after ten of the clock, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) applicable to business taken after ten of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00030
current_num: 3
root_num: 17
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. [NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 1 (Sittings of the House) and No. 2 (Exempted business) shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with the omission of paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) and with the substitution of references to four of the clock and a quarter to five of the clock for references to ten of the clock and a quarter to eleven of the clock respectively.[NEWLINE]In the application of Standing Order No. 100 (Statutory instruments &c. (procedure)) to the sittings on Fridays there shall be substituted references to half-past five of the clock for references to half-past eleven of the clock.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00050
current_num: 5
root_num: 143
text:
Save as provided in this order, government business shall have precedence at every sitting.[NEWLINE]Public bills other than government bills shall have precedence over government business on ten Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House.[NEWLINE]On and after the seventh Friday on which public bills other than government bills have precedence, such bills shall be arranged on the order paper in the following order:- consideration of Lords amendments, third readings, consideration of reports not already entered upon, adjourned proceedings on consideration, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings.[NEWLINE]The ballot for private members' bills shall be held on the second Thursday on which the House shall sit during the session under arrangements to be made by Mr. Speaker, and the bills shall be presented at the commencement of public business on the fifth Wednesday on which the House shall sit during the session.[NEWLINE]Private members' notices of motions and private members' bills shall have precedence, in that order, over government business on ten Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House.[NEWLINE]On four days other than Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House private members' notices of motions shall have precedence until seven of the clock and, if not previously concluded, the proceedings thereon shall lapse at that hour and the House shall then proceed with government business.[NEWLINE]Ballots for private members' notices of motions shall be held after questions on such Wednesdays as may be appointed by the House in respect of motions having precedence on Fridays; and on such days as may be appointed by the House in respect of motions having precedence on days other than Fridays.[NEWLINE]Until after the fifth Wednesday on which the House shall sit during the session, no private member shall give notice of a motion for leave to bring in a bill under Standing Order No. 13 (Motions for leave to bring in bills and nomination of select committees at commencement of public business) or for presenting a bill under Standing Order No. 37 (Presentation and first reading).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00070
current_num: 7
root_num: 158
text:
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the time for private business shall end not later than a quarter to three of the clock and business entered upon and not disposed of at that hour shall be deferred to such time as the Chairman of Ways and Means may appoint. Business not reached shall stand over to the next sitting, or in the case of opposed business until the next sitting other than a Friday.[NEWLINE]During the time of private business, opposed business shall not be proceeded with but shall be deferred to such time, other than a Friday, as the Chairman of Ways and Means may appoint. [NEWLINE]Opposed business shall include any proceedings on a private bill or a confirming bill which have been deferred under paragraph (2) of this Order, so long as a notice of an amendment stands upon the order paper in the form of a notice of motion (other than a notice of motion in the name of the Chairman of Ways and Means) on second reading, consideration or third reading of such bill: Provided that no such notice of motion shall stand on the order paper for more than seven days unless renewed.[NEWLINE]No opposed business shall be taken on a Friday.[NEWLINE]Business deferred under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this order shall be considered at the time of private business on the day appointed unless the Chairman of Ways and Means directs that such business shall be set down for seven of the clock on any specified Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, and business so set down (including any motion contingent directly or otherwise upon any item of such business) shall be taken in such order as the Chairman of Ways and Means may determine: Provided that business so set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be distributed as nearly as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings.[NEWLINE]On any day specified under paragraph (5) of this order at seven of the clock or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 (Adjournment on definite matter of urgent public importance) has been disposed of, the business set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be entered upon and may be proceeded with subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) although opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00080
current_num: 8
root_num: 91
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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]A Member who desires an oral answer to his question shall distinguish it by an asterisk, but subject to paragraph (5) of this Order 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 notice of questions for oral answer on a Monday must be given not later than ten of the clock on the preceding Thursday evening.[NEWLINE]Questions received at the Table Office on Monday and Tuesday before half-past two of the clock may, if so desired by the Member, be put down for oral answer on the following Wednesday and Thursday respectively: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to questions received on the first day of a session nor to questions received on the day on which the House first meets pursuant to Standing Order No. 117 (Earlier meeting of House in certain circumstances).[NEWLINE]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.[NEWLINE]Whenever the House is adjourned for more than one day, notices of questions received at the Table Office at any time during the adjournment for answer on or after the day to which the House stands adjourned shall be treated-[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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 the last day; and[NEWLINE](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:[NEWLINE]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: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00090
current_num: 9
root_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. [NEWLINE]Any proceeding which has been postponed under this order shall not, save as is provided in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business), be interrupted at ten of the clock and may be resumed and proceeded with at or after that hour for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings upon a motion under this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00100
current_num: 10
root_num: 140
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:-[NEWLINE](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[NEWLINE](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):[NEWLINE]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 made in the terms and subject to the procedure prescribed by paragraph (b) of this order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00130
current_num: 13
root_num: 92
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. Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes any such motion respectively, shall put either the question thereon, or the question, that the debate be now adjourned:[NEWLINE]Provided that no notice shall be given, except by a Minister of the Crown, for a day earlier than the seventh day after it has been received at the Table or for a day on which a notice of motion under this order already stands on the paper.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 1963-08-01
articleid: 00180
current_num: 18
root_num: 110
text:
Twenty-six days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted to the business of supply in each session.[NEWLINE]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 made in pursuance of paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business) is in force or not, unless the House otherwise order on the motion of a Minister of the Crown, made respectively after notice either at the commencement of public business to be decided without amendment or debate or after the interruption of business in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business).[NEWLINE]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; motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure]; and the consideration of reports from the Committee of Public Accounts and the Estimates Committee. But such business shall not include any vote of credit or votes for supplementary or additional estimates for war expenditure.[NEWLINE]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 the estimate for the Ministry of Defence and of the navy, the army and the air estimates, 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 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 that they see no objection to the sums necessary being provided by excess vote) be granted for the services defined in any statement of excess.[NEWLINE]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.'[NEWLINE]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 Ministry of Defence estimate and in the navy, the army, and the air estimates be granted for the services defined in those estimates. The chairman shall then in like manner put severally the questions on motions relating to any Navy, Army and Air Services [Expenditure] (provided that the Public Accounts Committee have reported that they see no reason why Parliament should not sanction the virement temporarily authorised by the Treasury in each case) that sanction be given to the application of the said sums.[NEWLINE]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 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 Ministry of Defence estimate and in the navy, the army and the air estimates, and other outstanding resolutions severally.[NEWLINE]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 for the adjournment of the House, and no dilatory motion shall be moved on proceedings on that business and the business shall not be interrupted under any standing order.[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day.


