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SCHEDULE III.
RULES AND ORDERS OF THE COUNCIL.
(Article 59.)
Rules and ORDERS IN SPRcial Cases.
Usages of House of Commons.
1. In all cases not herein provided resort shall be had to the rules, forms, usages, and practices of the Commons House of Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, which shall be followed so far as the same may be applicable to this Council, and not inconsistent with the following Rules and Orders, nor with the practice of this Council.
MEETINGS.
Times and places of sittings,
2. (a) The Council shall hold its sessions at such times and places as the Governor
shall from time to time appoint.
(b) Notice of the first meeting of each session shall be published in the Govern- ment Gazette at least three weeks before the day appointed for such meeting, and
it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Council to give not less than ten days' notice of such meeting to each member.
(e) The Council shall, unless the Council otherwise decides, meet on Thursday and Friday in sach week during the session.
(d) The Governor may also summon an Extraordinary Meeting of Council whether the Council be in session or not. Not less than seven days' notion of any such meeting shall be ordinarily given, but in cases of emergency such notice shall be given as the occasion may permit.
(e) The ordinary sitting of the Council shall begin at 2.30 in the afternoon, or at such other times as the Council may from time to time determine. Extraordinary sittings of the Council shall begin at such hour as the Governor may fix in giving
notice thereof.
QUORUM.
3. Six members, exolusive of the President, Vice-President, Presiding Member, or Chairman, shall form a quorum.
ADJOURNMENT.
4. A meeting of the Council can be adjourned at any time by the President. Vice-President, or Presiding Member, or by a vote of the majority of the members present.
PARSINCE OF STRANGERS.
5. Strangers may be present in the Council Chamber in the place wet apart for them, but must withdraw when called upon to do so by the President, Vice-President. or Presiding Member, or, if the Council is in Committee, by the Chairman.
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
6. The business of the Council shall be transacted in the following order :-
(1) Confirmation of minutes of the last preceding meeting.
(2) Announcements.
(3) Petitions.
(4) Notloes.
(5) Questions.
(6) Business of which notice has been given socording to priority of notice
and as set down in the Orders of the Day.
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS.
Confirmation of Minutes.
7. The minutes of each meeting shall be printed and circulated. At the next or some subsequent meeting the question shall be put that the minutes be confirmed. In the absence of objection or correction, the minutes as printed shall be confirmed.
NOTICES.
8. Notices of motions or questions can be given in Council, and if sent to the Clerk of the Council not less than two days before any meeting, they shall be included in the "Order of the Day." Every member, in giving such notice, shall deliver to the Clerk a copy of the proposed motion or question.
APPLICATIONS.
9. (a) All applications to the Council shall be in the form of a petition, and every petition must be presented by some member, who shall be responsible for the same being in respectful language.
(b) A member presenting a petition to the Council may state concisely the purpose of the petition.
PETITIONS.
10.--(a) It shall be competent for any member to move that such petition be read. In making such motion he shall state concisely his reasons for wishing to have it read.
(6) No debate shall be permitted on such motion, nor shall any other member speak upon or in relation to such petition, except to second the motion formally.
(e) Buch motion being seconded, the question shall be put whether the petition ahall be read.
QUESTIONS.
11-(a) Questions relating to public affairs may be put at the beginning of public business to the Colonial Secretary, or to any Official Member of Council on matters connected with his Department.
(6) At least two days' notice shall be give of such question.
(c) Every such question shall be put in writing, and a written reply shall be
read by the member to whom it is addressed.
(d) No member shall address the Council upon any question, nor shall the terms
of any question contain any argument or expression of opinion or statement of fact, except in so far as may be necessary to explain such question.
(e) Any member may put a supplementary question for the purpose of further elucidating any matter of fact regarding which an answer has been given; provided that the President, Vice-President, or Presiding Member shall disallow any supple- mentary question, if, in his opinion, it infringes the rules as to the subject matter of questions and in that case the question shall not appear on the record of the Proceedings of Council.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
12. The "Order of the Day "shall include all business to be transacted according to notice given and orders made, business remaining over from the previous meeting being put down first. Unless otherwise resolved, the business shall be taken in the order printed.
DEBATE ON NOTICE.
13. (a) No debate shall take place on the giving of notice of any matter, and no matter can be debated without notice, which, unless otherwise specially ordered, must be given not less than two days previously.
(b) This rule shall not be construed to extend to the exclusion of motions for amendments, or of motions for the adjournment of the Council or of the debate, or for referring any matter to a Committee, or of any motion the urgency of which
in admitted by the President, Vice-President or Presiding Member.
(s)' A motion for the adjournment of the Council, if supported by at least four members, may be made at any time, and aball take precedence of all other business.
(d) A motion for the adjournment of the business of the Council for the purpose
of di ousing a matter of urgent public business may be made with the consent of the President, Vice-President, or Prosiding Member.
QUESTIONS For Debate.
14. Subject to the provisions of rule 16, it shall be competent for any member of Council to propose any motion on any matter of public interest, and such motion, if seconded by any other member, shall be debated and disposed of socording to the e rules: Provided that in Committee of the whole Council or in Select Committee an amendment may be proposed without being seconded.
MONEY VOTES OR BILLS.
15. No Bill, motion, vote, or resolution, the object or effect of which may be
to dispose of or charge any part of the public revenue of the Colony or to alter or vary any existing disposition or charge, shall be proposed except by the Governor or with his allowance or by his direction.
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