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Standing Order Details

S.O.303A Government responses to committee reports

303A. (1) On the tabling of a report from a committee, which recommends that action be taken by the Government, the Clerk is to refer the report to the relevant Minister(s), who must within six months of a report being tabled, report to the House what action, if any, the Government proposes to take in relation to each recommendation of the committee.
(2) If at the time at which the Minister seeks to report to the House, the House is not sitting, a Minister may present the response to the Clerk.
(3) A response presented to the Clerk is:
    (a) On presentation, and for all purposes, deemed to have been tabled and printed, and may be circulated.
    (b) Reported to the House at its next sitting.

adopted 3 July 2009