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(c) When consideration of the report paragraph by paragraph is concluded and when all proposed new paragraphs have been considered the chairman shall put the question that this report be the report of the committee to the Council.
(8) A select committee may make a special report relating to the powers, functions and proceedings of the committee on matters which they think fit to bring to the notice of the Council.
(9) The minutes of proceedings of the committee shall record all proceedings on consideration of a report or bill in the committee and on every amendment proposed to the report or bill, with a note of divisions, if divisions were taken in the committee, showing the names of members voting in the division or declining to vote.
(10) A report or special report, with the minutes of proceedings of a select committee and the minutes of evidence, if evidence was taken, shall be laid on the Table of the Council by the chairman of the committee.
63. The evidence taken before a select committee and docu- ments presented to the committee shall not be published by a member of the committee or by any other person before the committee have presented their report to the Council.
Premature Publication of Evidence.
PART N
MISCELLANEOUS Matters
64. No Member shall appear before the Council or a commit- tee thereof as a legal practitioner for or on behalf of a party or in a capacity for which he is to receive a fee or award.
65. (1) A Member shall not move any motion or amendment relating to a matter in which he has a direct personal pecuniary interest or speak or vote on any such matter, whether in the Council or in any committee, without disclosing the nature of that interest.
(2) A motion to disallow a Member's vote on the ground of non-disclosure of his personal pecuniary interest may be moved without notice by any Member immediately upon the statement of the numbers voting in the division by the President or Chairman, but not otherwise.
(3) The President or Chairman shall have discretion whether or not to propose the question upon such a motion; and in exercising such discretion he shall have regard to the nature of the question upon which the vote was taken and to the consideration whether the interest therein of the Member whose vote is challenged is direct and pecuniary and not an interest in common with the rest of the inhabitants of Hong Kong and whether his vote was given on a matter of state policy.
Employment of Members in Professional Capacity.
Personal Pecuniary Interest to be Disclosed. (Amended L.N. 255(83)