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RPRD - Standing Committee

Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament

 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament has the honour to present its

FOURTH REPORT


Following the entry into force of the revised Rules of the Senate on September 17,  2012, your committee has, pursuant to rule 12 - 7(2)(a), continued to consider the Rules and now recommends as follows:

1. That rule 13-2 be deleted and current rules 13-3 to 13-7 renumbered as 13-2 to 13-6 respectively;

2. That:

(a) rule 16-1 be amended by the addition of the new subsection (8) as follows:

Message on Royal Assent

16-1. (8) At any time during the sitting, the Leader or Deputy Leader of the Government may, if there are any bills awaiting Royal Assent, state that a message from the Crown concerning Royal Assent is expected. After this announcement no motion to adjourn the Senate shall be received and the rules regarding the ordinary time of adjournment or suspension, or any prior order regarding adjournment shall be suspended until the message has been received or either the Leader or Deputy Leader of the Government indicates the message is no longer expected. If the Senate completes the business for the day before the message is received, the sitting shall be suspended to the call of the Speaker, with the bells to ring for five minutes before the sitting resumes.”; and

(b) rule 16-1(8) be added to the lists of exceptions for rules 3-3(1), 3-4 and 5-13(1); and

3. That all cross references in the Rules, including the lists of exceptions, be updated accordingly.

Respectfully submitted,

DAVID SMITH

Chair


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