Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 7 - Order of Reference

Extract from the Journals of the Senate, Monday, April 7, 2014:

At 5:30 p.m., pursuant to rule 7-4(5), the Senate proceeded to the taking of the deferred standing vote on the motion, as amended, of the Honourable Senator Martin, seconded by the Honourable Senator Marshall:

That, in accordance with rule 10-11(1), the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs be authorized to examine the subject matter of Bill C-23, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts, introduced in the House of Commons on February 4, 2014, in advance of the said bill coming before the Senate;

That the committee be authorized to sit for the purposes of this study, even though the Senate may then be sitting, and that rule 12-18(1) be suspended in relation thereto;

That the committee be authorized to sit for the purposes of this study, even though the Senate may then be adjourned, with the application of rule 12-18(2) being suspended in relation thereto; and

That, notwithstanding usual practices, the committee be authorized to deposit with the Clerk of the Senate its report on this study if the Senate is not then sitting; and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate.

The question being put on the motion, as amended, it was adopted on the following vote:

YEAS (44)

NAYS (24)

ABSTENTIONS (3)

Gary W. O'Brien

Clerk of the Senate