Extract from Abraham and Hawtrey's Parliamentary Dictionary, Third Edition (Butterworths), 1970
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PARLIAMENTARY DICTIONARY
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE—continued royal assent given to bills (a rare event since the passing of the Royal Assent Act 1967), the House is immediately forced to receive him. The committee is not resumed until the House has returned from the other House and heard the Speaker give his account of the proceedings there. (3)-A committe may also be interrupted at 7 p.m. when a member has obtained leave to move the adjournment under Standing Order No. 9 and the Speaker has directed that the motion should be moved at that not) (see ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE, MOTION FOR), or when opposed private business is sat down for consideration at this hour by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means (see BUSINESS, ORDER OF). (4) The proceedings may be suspended by a resolu- tion to that effect (sce SUSPENSION OSITTING). In any of these cases the chairman simply rises At the appropriate moment, says "Order, order ", and immediately leaves his place at the Table; on which the Speaker regumes the chair of the House.
COMMITTEE OFFICE
One of the five offices into which the Department of the Clerk of the House of Commons is divided. From among the clerks in this office, with some exceptions, are appointed all clerks attending select committees (including committees on private bills and joint committees of both Houses). The clerks may also be required to act as clerks to standing committees, when suficient clerks cann ́t be profided from the Public Bill Office.
COMMITTEE, SECOND READING
A standing committee appointed to consider a public bill after the first reading. A motion to refer a bill to a second reading committee may be made at the commencement of public business by a minister of the Crown, provided that ten days' notice has been given after the bill has been printed. The question on the motion is put immediately, without amendment or debate. If at that moment not less than twenty members rise and object, the motion not carried. The committee consists of not less than sixteen/or more than fifty members; it must report whether or not it fecommends that the bill ought to be read a second tine. If the cominittee's recommendation is unfavourable, it may state its reasons in the report. After the committee has made its report, the bill is appointed for second reading; the question that the bill be now read a second time "is then decided without
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COMMITTEE, SELECT
Stictly speaking, any committee composed of a certain number of members cpecially named, as distinguished from one which consists of all the members of the House, is a select com-