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HIS EXCELLENCY: It is now six o'clock and under Standing Order 8(2) the Council ought now to adjourn.
CHIEF SECRETARY : Sir, with your consent and some misgivings
I move that the Standing Order 8 (2) be suspended, so as to allow the Council's business this afternoon to be concluded.
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Question proposed, put and agreed to.
HIS EXCELLENCY The question is that Standing Order 8 (2)
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HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT:
Does any other member wish to speak on the amendment? Mr. Martin Lee, is this a point of order?
MR. MARTIN LEE: Sir, I wonder if you would exercise your discretion in my favour to give me a reply to which I have no right, but is entirely a matter for your discretion, and I ask because so many speakers have spoken?
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HIS EXCELLENCYį: Thank you, Mr. Lee. I have no discretion on this matter; Standing Orders are clear, I think it is Standing
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You have a right to reply to any points which may have been misunderstood, which were raised by other members during the debate on the amendment; you are free to do that if that is what you wish to do.
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