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Standing Order Details

S.O.301 Committees - consideration of draft report


301. The draft report shall be considered as follows:
      1. Unless previously circulated, the Chair shall read the report.
      2. The committee may order it to be circulated and a subsequent day named for its consideration.
      3. Unless the committee otherwise resolves, the report shall be considered paragraph by paragraph " the question being "That the paragraph be agreed to".
      4. A Member may move an amendment to the paragraph at the time it is under consideration.
      5. After the draft report has been considered, the whole or any paragraph may be reconsidered and amended.
      6. After consideration, the committee may adopt the report with or without amendment.