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Suspension of standing orders—SO 198

That, for the remainder of the current session and unless otherwise ordered, standing order 198 be amended to read as follows:

(1) In urgent cases, any standing order or other order of the House may be suspended by the House in whole or in part:
      (a) by a motion on notice, or
      (b) by leave of the House.

(2) On a motion for the suspension of a standing or other order, (with the exception of motions referred to in paragraph 3) a member may not speak for more than five minutes, and if the debate is not concluded after the expiration of 30 minutes after the moving of the motion the question on the motion will then be put.

(3) A motion for the suspension of standing orders, on contingent notice, to allow the moving of a motion forthwith that an order of the day or motion on the Notice Paper relating to an order for papers under standing order 52, or an Address to the Governor under standing order 53, be called on forthwith, the question is to be decided without amendment or debate except a statement by the mover and a statement by a Minister not exceeding 5 minutes each.

(4) Where a standing order or other order of the House is suspended by the House in whole or in part, any subsequent procedural motion is to be put without amendment or debate.


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