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Appendix V

S.O. No.

4(2)-(8)

List of Standing Orders requiring amendments

9(7) & (8)

Subject/proposal

Duties of the Clerk

Re-number as 4(2)-(7)

Adjournment Debates Amend to give President discretionary power to extend the time limits.

Quorum

Ref. in Report

Para 54(a)

Para 36

10(1)

"ten" to be amended to "twenty".

Para 54(b)

13(6)

Petitions

"fifteen" in the last

Para 54(c)

sentence to be amended to "twenty".

Questions

19(6)

"and" in the third line to be amended to "or".

Para 54(d)

19(7)

To incorporate the convention that written answers to

Para 54(e)

supplementary questions are supplied to each Member and printed in the Official Report.

Committee stage amendments

45(2)

Amend notice to be given from "three clear days" to "four clear days".

Para 46

Financial procedure

54(3)

Amend to provide cross reference to S.0. 60(8).

Para 54(f)

58(1)

Amend to provide cross reference to S.0. 60(6).

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60(3)

Finance Committee

The last sentence to be amended to read "The sittings shall be held in public unless, subject to any direction of the committee, the Chairman otherwise orders".

Para 26