PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2549, 9 June 1882, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE.

j>ana« ASSOCIATION 1 TBLB3BASI.] WELLINGTON, June 8.

Following report from the Standing Orders Committee was brought up to-day :—“ The Standing Orders Committee have the honor to recommend that the undermentioned resolutions of the committee be adopted as standing rules and orders of the House. 1. That no motion for the adjournment of the House shall be made, except by leave of the House, before the Orders of the Day or notices of motion have been entered upon. 2. That when a motion is made for the adjournment of a debate or of the Eau;e during any debate, or that the Chairman of a Committee do report progress or do leave the chair, tho debate thereupon shall be strictly confined to the matter of such motion, and no member having spoken to any such motion shall be entitled to move or second any similar motion during the same debate. 3. That in committee on a Bill the preamble do stand postponed until after tho consideration of the clause, without questions put. 4, That whenever the committee of supply or ways and means stands as the first order of the day on a Tuesday, Mr Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question. They also recommend that Standing Order No. 51 bo altered so as to admit of orders of the day in charge of private members being called on upon only one day of the week after half past twelve o’clock. (Order as amended). 5. No Order of the Day or notice of motion ohall be called on after twelve o'clock at night except on Wednesdays, when the Orders of tho Day for private members’ business may be called on after the hour. “ Q. Mattbice O’Hobke, Chairman.”