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Questions not to involve argument.

Improper Question or Motion a breach of order, and omitted from Order Paper.

Motion for Adjournment not to be made until questions disposed of.

Notices oi Motion.

.Restriction upon more than one Notice being given at one time.

When more than one Notice given at same time.

Notices may be given for absent Members. Restrictions upon Notices.

Notices take precedence on Wednesdays.

Certain Notices shall be expunged.

Notices postponed.

The terms may be altered.

Precedence of Motions.

Notices not dealt with to be struck out.

Ministers of the Crown relating to public affairs, and to other Members relating to any Bill, Motion, or other public matter connected with the business of the House in which such Members may be concerned. 81. Questions and the replies thereto are not to contain argument, nor are any facts to be stated beyond what are necessary to elucidate such Questions and replies. 82. Any Question or Motion calculated to bring the House into ridicule or contempt, and any Question which contains any discreditable or disrespectful reference to or insinuation against the House or any Member thereof, or which relates to the private affairs of any Member or other person, is a breach of order, and if notice be given of any such Question or Motion the Clerk shall omit the same from the Order Paper, or if by inadvertence it appear thereon such Question or Motion shall not be put. 83. No Motion for the Adjournment of the House shall be made until all the Questions on the Notice Paper have been disposed of, unless by leave of the House.

VIII. —Notices op Motion. 84.- Every Member, in giving notice of Motion, is to deliver at the Table a copy of such Notice, fairly written, together with his name, and the day proposed for bringing on such Motion. 85. With the exception of Ministers, and the Chairman of Committees as regards sessional Notices, a Member on rising to give a Notice shall be restricted to giving one Notice until other Members shall each have had an opportunity of giving one Notice. 86. If,' in contravention of the preceding Order, any Member shall give more than one Notice at one and the same time, all such Notices; except the one first given, shall be placed at the foot of the list of Notices for the day for which they are given. 87. A Member may give Notice for any other Member not then present. 88. No Notice may be given for any day beyond the period which shall include the four days next following on which Notices are entitled to precedence ; due allowance being made for any intervening adjournment of the House, and the period being in that case so far extended as to include four Notice days falling during the sitting of the House. 89. Notices of Motions take precedence of Orders of the Day on Wednesdays, unless the House shall have otherwise directed. 90. Any Notice containing unbecoming expressions shall be expunged from the Notice Paper by order of the Speaker. 91. A Member desiring to change the day for bringing on a Motion may give notice of such Motion for any day subsequent to that first named, subject to the same Rules as other Notices of Motions. 92. After a Notice of Motion has been given, the terms thereof may be altered by the Member, on delivering at the Table an amended Notice. 93. Motions will have precedence on each day according to the order in which the Notices for the same were given. 94. All Notices of Motion which have not been dealt with within two weeks from the 2—H. 11.

date fixed for their consideration on the Order Paper will be struck off the Paper, subject always to the right of renewal. 95. An urgent Motion, directly concerning privileges of the House, will take precedence of other Motions, as well as of Orders of the Day. 96. Precedence is ordinarily given by courtesy to a Motion for a Vote of the thanks of the House. 97. A Motion may be made, by consent of the House, without previous notice. 98. When a Motion has been made and seconded a Question thereupon is proposed to the House by Mr. Speaker. 99. Any Motion not seconded may not be further debated, but is forthwith dropped, and no entry thereof is made in the Journals. 100. A Member who has made a Motion may withdraw the same by leave of the House, such leave being granted without any negative voice. 101. A Motion, once in possession of the House, cannot be withdrawn in the absence of the Mover except with his consent, unless circumstances preclude the possibility of his being consulted.

IX.—Superseding Motions. 102. A Question may be superseded: (1) By the adjournment of the House, either on the Motion of a Member "That this House do now adjourn," or on notice being taken, and it appearing, that a quorum is not present; (2) by a Motion "That the Orders of the Day be now read," which Motion, however, is restricted to days on which Motions have precedence of Orders of the Day; (3) by the Previous Question, viz., "That the Question be not now put," being proposed and carried; and (4) by Amendment.

X.—Time Limit op Speeches. 103. No Member shall speak for more than half an hour at a time in any Debate in the House, except in the Debate on the Address in Eeply, or on the Financial Statement, or in a Debate on a Motion of " No Confidence," or in moving the second reading of a Bill, or on the Debate on the Appropriation Bill, when a Member shall be at liberty to speak for one hour. In Committee of the House no Member shall speak for more than ten minutes at any one time, or more than four times upon any one Question before the Committee. Provided that this rule shall not apply in Committee to a Member in charge of a Bill, or to a Minister when delivering the Financial Statement in Committee of Supply.

Xl.—Adjournment of the House. 104. The Adjournment of the House may be moved at any time after the Questions are disposed of, but the Debate on such Motion must be confined strictly to the Question of Adjournment, unless seven Members rise, and then any specific questions alluded to in the replies of Ministers to Questions on that day may be discussed. 105. In speaking to such Motion the Mover shall not exceed thirty minutes, and any other Member shall not exceed fifteen minutes, and the whole discussion on the subject shall not exceed two hours.

Questions of privilege.

Vote of thanks

Motions without notice.

Questions proposed.

Motions not seconded.

Motions withdrawn.

Motion cannot be withdrawn without consent of Mover.

Questions superseded : 1. By adjournment;

2. By reading the Orders of the Day;

3. By Previous Question; 4. By amendment.

Time limit of Speeches,

When Adjournment may be moved. Debate thereon.

Time limit in debate on Adjournment.