Proceedings of the Standing Committee on
Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament

Issue 3 - Third Report of the Committee

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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

THIRD REPORT

Pursuant to rule 86(1)(f)(i), your committee is pleased to report as follows:

Paragraphs 86(1)(b) and (c) of the Rules of the Senate provide that there shall be a Standing Joint Committee on the Printing of Parliament and a Standing Joint Committee on the Restaurant of Parliament. No senators have been appointed to these committees since 1984 and the committees have not functioned over this period. The House of Commons removed reference to the Standing Joint Committee on the Printing of Parliament from its Standing Orders in 1986, and they never referred to the Standing Joint Committee on the Restaurant of Parliament. The other place has not named members to the Restaurant Committee since 1980.

Your committee therefore recommends:

That rule 86(1) be amended by:

1. deleting paragraphs (b) and (c), and

2. relettering paragraphs (d) through (t) as (b) through (r).

Respectfully submitted,

DAVID P. SMITH

Chair